CREATIVE NATION

Imagine the world united through its creativity.  The following is from www.creativityday.org:

World Creativity and Innovation Week, April 15 - 21, is a celebration of our ability to get new ideas, use imagination and make new decisions to make the world a better place and to make your place in the world better, too. 

Do what you can, do what you like. There’s only one rule: do no harm.

Since 2002, people in businesses, homes, organizations, schools and communities (106 at last count) in over 46 countries spend the week beginning April 15th (Leonardo da Vinci’s Birthday), ending on April 21st to enliven, encourage, enjoy and express their creative spirit.

To participate, take a moment, a day, or the week to generate new ideas to create a brighter future wherever you are.

For starters, try one of these, or encourage a child to try:

     Make the box bigger, or better, imagine there is no box

Question what hasn’t been asked

Make new connections

Relate the unrelated

Connect emotions with thoughts, actions, values and beliefs

Appreciate restlessness as a signal for a chance to do something differently

Increase satisfaction, meet yours and people’s needs in new ways

Question the status quo

Create more desirable futures

Let the past be a guide post, not a hitching post

Be open to experiment

Adopt a ‘let’s learn from our mistakes’ attitude

Realize that the first idea is a rough draft, open to refinement

Keep your sense of humour

Give yourself new experiences

Learn something new

Find out what troubles/confuses others, then find new ways to ease their pain