Creativity and Personality Type : Tools for Understanding and Inspiring the Many Voices of Creativity - Softcover

Segal, Marci

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966462408 ISBN 13: 9780966462401

Publisher: Telos Publications, 2001

Synopsis

Triumphant renewal. Vital energy. Creativity is as reliable as the sun. Its ceaseless power streams through barriers to awaken seed potentials; once sprouted, they grow with unique purpose and splendor. All bask in its warmth. The sun gathers and spreads the forces of the universe – the creative energy that keeps us alive. Birth, transformation, and rebirth. Each new day. Creativity, like the sun, is ever present. And so it is also in those around you.

An interest stirs. New tasks await. The impetus for change has begun. Take time now to challenge your perceptions and embrace a new view. Challenge yourself to become aware of where your ‘hands are tied’ and how to free them. Liberate your creative energies. Discover the developed and undeveloped parts of your personality. The decisions you make are at stake. Choose to make good ones. Use your creative potential.

Creativity and Personality Type prepares you for your future. It reveals how your pattern of personality naturally translates and uses creative energies. You will learn your essential energy pattern, how to shift your energies to open yourself to new perspectives, and how to use helpful tools to deliberately inspire the release of creativity in others as well as yourself.

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Part of the Understanding Yourself and Others(R) Series
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Creativity and Personality Type provides you with;

· a complete creativity workshop in one book
· an introduction to the theories of creativity, temperament, and psychological type.
· cutting edge tools, proven methods, and innovative techniques for using personality type information and creativity.
· the Temperament Targets(TM).
· an understanding of how the cognitive processes create balance in divergent and convergent thinking
· exercises that show you how each of the 16 types has its own unique way of dealing with situations requiring creative solutions.
· an overview of The Segal Model for Creative Problem Solving
· a guide for idea generation.
· 23 tools for you to use to help inspire the creativity in others.
· appencices with an overview of the 3 models for understanding the 16 types--temperament, interaction styles, and cognitive dynamics and the glossary for the Temperament Targets(TM)

About this title

About the Author

Marci Segal is Principal of Creative ProblemSolving, founded in 1984, Toronto, Canada, an international innovation and creativity consulting organization. Marci is an MBTI qualifying instructor and uses the principles of creative studies and personality type to help individuals and communities within organizations develop a ·best work· environment. Her education includes graduate and undergraduate work at the Center for Studies in Creativity in Buffalo, NY. She is a former president of the Ontario Association for the Application of Personality Type, an active Association for Psychological Type member and senior faculty at Creative Problem Solving Insitute in Buffalo, NY. Marci is recognized worldwide for her contributions to the fields of creativity and psychological type by integrating the frameworks for heightened practical applications in both fields. In 2000, Marci was given the Distinguished Leader Award for exemplary leadership, in the field of creativity at l! arge by the Creative Education Foundation, Buffalo, NY.

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from "Exploring Creativity"...
Creativity is the spark of life, the vitality that stirs desires to improve upon and change the status quo-meaningfully, responsibly, wisely, and with impact.

from "Discovering Your Creative Voice"...
Knowing about different voices helps us to alleviate the immediate knee-jerk blaming that occurs when we don't get what we want. It shifts the focus away from "things happen to me" toward the more progressive "I make things happen,"...

from "Jung's Theory of Psychological Type"...
The patterns of the preferences, or voices, are really "where it's at," creatively and holistically speaking. Why? Because we all perceive something and we all make decisions about what we perceive.

from "Idea-Generating Setup"...
The bottom line to a successful idea-generating process is to honor the voices in the room and to use different thinking styles. That's right, intermix the different temperament patterns as well as divergent perceiving and convergent judging, focuses, and activities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Telos Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0966462408
• ISBN 13: 9780966462401
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 152