THE WHEEL OF CREATIVITY®
Take Your Place in The Adventure of Life
Creativity is the greatest natural resource in the world today. It is sustainable, renewable, inexhaustible and free. Creativity is THE solution to every one of the world’s problems. And you have direct access to it. And yet most of us are just leaving it in the ground.
So the other day, I was speaking with an amazingly smart and creative friend who told me that she doesn’t believe in safe spaces. Rather she said she believes in brave spaces. This got me to thinking about the difference between a safe space and a safe conversation.
When George Floyd was killed, and people began hitting the streets in protest, I started to stir from a long slumber – the sleepy comfort of not knowing what I did not know. I started to listen. This conversation is the result of what I heard. And the three men who speak here – all dear friends of mine – share three experiences of what it means to be a black man in their three countries (USA, UK and South Africa) and around the world.
“A riot is the language of the unheard.” – MLK There is a great deal of adrenalized action in the world today. It was inevitable. We will never have peace in our societies until all our voices can be heard, no matter how uncomfortable those voices make us. There is going to be anger. There is going to […]
Do you feel it? I’m witnessing in my clients, students and friends around the globe is a collective grief for life as we knew it, which is suddenly, abruptly gone. The heavy, weary, foggy, pointless feeling that penetrates your entire being – body, mind, spirit and heart – and stops you in your thick, sticky tracks. We are grieving Normal. What do we do now?
