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2. Creative Living License to be YOU With ADHD

3. “ The creative process is both predictable and unpredictable. It is both composition and improvisation. There is a balance of the intuitive and the rational. There is an ever-increasing process of learning, and adjusting your actions based on your learning. Each creator has his or her own personal rhythms. The process is individually developed and personally tailored to take into account such variables as temperament, personality, idiosyncrasies, strengths, weaknesses, tastes, aspirations, and interests.” (Fritz, creating, pg. 8 p 2)

5. Describe and define creative living

6. Inspire hope that anyone can be creative

7. Equip with the guidelines toward creativity

9. Creativity

10. Creative Living

11. RELEVANCE OF CREATIVITY

13. Problem solving

14. Introduce newness and/or improvement

15. Enriches culture and life

16. Expression of emotion/energy CHAD -Charter High School for Architecture and Design Dave Brubeck performs to Ansel Adams photos

18. It is a generative – life-giving process

19. It relieves tension

20. Increase daily wonder and excitement

21. Revitalizes thinking about life

22. Works your right brain

23. Expands sense of self (through self-forgetfulness)

24. Right and Left Brain Creativity works two hemispheres of the brain: Left hemisphere Right hemisphere Sequential Simultaneous Literalness Big picture Analysis Synthesis Left hemisphere Right hemisphere

25. WHAT IS CREATIVITY

26. Process “ a process by which a symbolic domain in the culture is changed. New songs, new ideas, new machines are what creativity is about.” (Csikszentmihalyi)

27. Process CREATIVITY

29. a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain,

30. and a field of experts who recognized and validate the innovation.”

31. System Apple I Macintosh

32. Way of Seeing

33. Force Tension between reality and vision (Senge) reality vision Creative tension

34. Force used in honor of the four… Reality … four Oakland officers killed in one incident, shock, grief Vision …way to give tribute, honor, and opportunity for grieving

35. CREATIVE LIVING LICENSE Infusing creativity into daily life and planning

37. Known blocks

38. Advice from scholars and practitioners

39. Experience of creative adults with ADHD

41. Quickly able to assess problems and scan ideas

42. Open to experience

43. Internal balance

44. Able to internalize and express conflicting thoughts

46. Independent

47. Tolerate ambiguity

48. Assertive/confident

49. High energy

50. Courage of beliefs

51. Willing to take risks

52. Visualize problems

53. Flexible with decisions

54. Complexity (MacKinnon1976, Baraon & Harrington 1981, Feist 1998, Tardif & Sternberg 1988 in Sawyer 2006) (Csikszentmihalyi 1996)

56. Harness the ADHD tendencies:

57. Team up with opposites

58. Earn Your License

60. Too many demands – cannot activate the energy for creativity

61. Distractions – inability to hold onto the creative energy or focus

62. Laziness – lack of discipline to manage the energy

63. Not knowing what to do with the energy

64. Lack of clarity about self

65. License “ freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)”

67. Learn about self: strengths, passions, interests, rhythm

68. Learn something new

69. Learn how to draw

70. Learn how to tell stories

71. Learn more about the domain in which you wish to create

73. Be deliberate

74. Set goals

75. Have a plan

76. Design in accordance with your style

78. Connect with others

79. Connect with the problem you want to solve

80. Connect with your goal - invest

82. Try things out, test the waters

84. Consider the other side of a trait

85. If you are always open, make a decision to decide

86. If you keep tight control, try being open

87. Consider the antagonist’s side of the story

89. Make time for relaxation and work

90. Get enough sleep, exercise

91. Build a schedule that works with your cycle and rhythm

93. Consider what works and doesn’t work in your plans and actions. Don’t judge.

94. Choose ideas selectively. Let intuition and gut be one influence – not the only one.

95. You have earned your license

96. Now go live creatively and be YOU! If you have any questions or wish to receive a list of resources that will help you become more creative, contact me. Ose Schwab [email_address] or 781-480-3214