Coaching Creativity: Transforming your practice

Coaching Creativity -- Praise -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- References -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I This Crazy Thing Called Creativity -- 1 Buzzwords and sexy shortcuts -- Learning Points -- References -- 2 Time and Place - How We Got to Here -- A Smidgen of History -- What Next? -- Learning Points -- References -- Part II Creative Human -- References -- 3 Creativity and the Psyche -- Pre Woodstock -- Post Woodstock -- The Dark Side -- Learning Points -- References -- 4 Creativity, Neurology and the Physical Body.

Whole Brain -- Memory -- Loosening and Wandering -- Sculpting -- Noticing -- Whole Body, Sensory Body -- Expanding Perception, Creating Action and Magical Synthesis -- Learning Points -- References -- 5 Creativity and Human 'Doing'? -- 'Doing' - It'S Our Nature -- A Hierarchy of Creative Doing -- Engagement and Flow: Towards Mastery -- The Tricky Subject of Motivation -- Making Stuff: What We Can Learn from the Artists and Makers -- Work: Creativity and Innovation -- Learning Points -- References -- Part III Creativity as a means and also as an End -- 6 Creative Therapy -- Art Therapy.

Occupational Therapy -- Writing as Therapy and Self-Help -- The New World of Creative Enablement -- How to Hold a Paradox -- Learning Points -- References -- 7 This Crazy Thing Called Coaching -- Learning Points -- References -- 8 Coaching as 'Creative' Process -- Creating Other, Becoming Other -- Inquiry and Experimentation -- Developing a Vision, Whilst Embracing What Emerges -- Resources -- Finding or Creating a Story -- Accessing An Altered State -- Reality Checks, Re-Framing and Learning -- Circling Ideas and Repeating Patterns -- Conclusion -- Learning Points -- Note -- References.

9 Creative 'Doing' as Part of Coaching -- Wanting to be a Fairy -- Learning Points -- References -- 10 Coaching as Activating, Integrating and Supporting Creativity -- Expansion of Ideas, Overwhelm and Eventual Contraction -- Learning Points -- 11 Proposing a Model for Coaching Creativity -- Waving Hands -- Blood Vessels, Lungs and Labour -- What Does This Mean for Coaching? -- The Coaching Model from a Neuroscience Stance -- The Coaching Model from a Psychological Stance -- The Coaching Model from An Arts and Creative Practice Stance.

Understanding the Challenges Related to Creativity, Often Seen in Coaching -- Learning Points -- Note -- References -- Part IV Coaching the Creative Process -- How Coaching Enables and Supports the Process of Creativity -- 12 The vessel Wall - Containing the Process -- Learning Points -- Note -- 13 Enabling Expansion - Stretching, Filling and Activating the Space -- Learning Points -- References -- Suggested Reading -- 14 Enabling Contraction and Integration -- Learning Points -- 15 The Point of Creative Action -- Goals -- Planning and Preferences -- Promoting Risk Taking, Action and Fast Failure.

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