Creativity

Yet another creative presenter at this weekend’s Integral Institute Integral Healthcare Training Showcase was Kathleen Jones. Kathleen is a veteran in training resident physicians. Kathleen’s presentation was entitled “Strengthening Self-Awareness through Art,” and, for my money, was one of the most engaging of the weekend.

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WE ARE MEETING, NOTWITHSTANDING THE WEATHER!

It's not as bad as you may think! See you there!

William James said "Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." The converse of that might be to say that creativity is stifled by our tendencies to routinize our thinking into cognitive ruts. One of most comprehensive ways in which the ruts of modern thought have been explosed and disrupted is Integral Theory. First elucidated by Jean Gebser and more fully fleshed-out by many others, including Ken Wilber, Integral Theory weaves together a tapestry of eastern and western developmental psychology, a radical understanding of taking multiple perspectives, the emergent wisdom of multiple intelligences, a revolutionary view of ordinary and nonordinary states, and an appreciation of the various typologies found in tantra, eneagrams, Myers-Briggs, and the like. The resultant rich tapestry leaves those who understand its basic principals with a drastically expanded canvas on which to paint our lives, our work, our world.