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Engaging with the Creative Process – Creativity 101
You live in a creative world. Not only that, but also you live in a world where it’s easy to create. It wasn’t that long ago when their paint-stained jeans, colorful smocks, berets, and ice sculpting utensils easily identified “the creative ones”. Now days, the creative ones can be disguised as computer engineers, teenagers, and stay-at-home blogging mom. What I’m trying to say is many other people have discovered their hidden creative talents and so can you. So where do we start? Just look around and ask yourself these questions.
What do you see that’s beautiful? Ugly? Intriguing?
What do you see that inspires you?
Here’s an important principle you need to know: When we’re talking about creativity in regards to ministry, we’re talking about creating environment. Many people get paralyzed at the thought of “creating something” out of nothing. The reality is, we’re never creating out of nothing. We’re actually going to be attempting to “re-recreate” a feeling (an environment) that we either saw or felt at one time. This environment may be one singular event or a culmination of several events. This environment that we want to re-create is desirable because of how it made us feel. Let me give you a few examples: Describe these “environments”.
The Disney Store
Hollister
The Apple Store
If you had difficulty with this exercise, I recommend you get out a little more and experience what’s out there for yourself. Why? Because the world in which you live in understands how to creatively capture the hearts and minds of our children (and adults) and we need to appreciate this and better understand what it takes to make this happen.
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