The Who - Adults
Adults hold many roles. Teacher, parent, employee. Boss, leader, follower. Participant. Spectator. Consumer. Creator. We can engage in and support creativity in many ways. Those ways may change as we progress through life. Our perspective can inform our creative engagement, whether it be cultural, socio-economic, gender-related, or some other personal experience. There is a lot of attention being paid to the roles that aging and gender may have on creativity – independently, and in conjunction with each other. We can focus on our own creative development or the ways in which we can help creativity flourish in others.
Books
A Whole New Mind, by Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead Books, 2006)
The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life, by Gene D. Cohen (William Morrow, 2000)
Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived, Edited by C. L. M. Keyes, J. Haidt and Martin Seligman (2002)
Creative Aging: A Meaning-Making Perspective, by Mary Baird Carlsen (Norton, 1996)
The Search for Satori and Creativity, by E. Paul Torrance (1979)
Online
International Centre for Creativity and Imagination www.appliedimagination.org
Adults hold many roles. Teacher, parent, employee. Boss, leader, follower. Participant. Spectator. Consumer. Creator. We can engage in and support creativity in many ways. Those ways may change as we progress through life. Our perspective can inform our creative engagement, whether it be cultural, socio-economic, gender-related, or some other personal experience. There is a lot of attention being paid to the roles that aging and gender may have on creativity – independently, and in conjunction with each other. We can focus on our own creative development or the ways in which we can help creativity flourish in others.
Books
A Whole New Mind, by Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead Books, 2006)
The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life, by Gene D. Cohen (William Morrow, 2000)
Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived, Edited by C. L. M. Keyes, J. Haidt and Martin Seligman (2002)
Creative Aging: A Meaning-Making Perspective, by Mary Baird Carlsen (Norton, 1996)
The Search for Satori and Creativity, by E. Paul Torrance (1979)
Online
International Centre for Creativity and Imagination www.appliedimagination.org