The document discusses the importance of creativity, particularly for individuals with ADHD, emphasizing the balance between the intuitive and rational in the creative process. It presents guidelines for fostering creativity, such as understanding personal strengths and rhythms, overcoming common blocks, and making intentional connections. Ultimately, it inspires readers to embrace their unique creative journeys and provides contact information for further resources.

2. Creative Living License to be YOU With ADHD

3. “ The creative process is both predictable and unpredictable. It is both composition and improvisation. There is a balance of the intuitive and the rational. There is an ever-increasing process of learning, and adjusting your actions based on your learning. Each creator has his or her own personal rhythms. The process is individually developed and personally tailored to take into account such variables as temperament, personality, idiosyncrasies, strengths, weaknesses, tastes, aspirations, and interests.” (Fritz, creating, pg. 8 p 2)

4. Objective Qualify the relevance of creativity, particularly for those with AD/HD

5. Describe and define creative living

6. Inspire hope that anyone can be creative

7. Equip with the guidelines toward creativity

8. Agenda Relevance of Creativity

9. Creativity

10. Creative Living

11. RELEVANCE OF CREATIVITY

12. Relevance of Creativity Success factor for adults with learning disabilities and/or AD/HD

13. Problem solving

14. Introduce newness and/or improvement

15. Enriches culture and life

16. Expression of emotion/energy CHAD -Charter High School for Architecture and Design Dave Brubeck performs to Ansel Adams photos

17. Relevance of Creativity It moves focus from self onto something new

18. It is a generative – life-giving process

19. It relieves tension

20. Increase daily wonder and excitement

21. Revitalizes thinking about life

22. Works your right brain

23. Expands sense of self (through self-forgetfulness)

24. Right and Left Brain Creativity works two hemispheres of the brain: Left hemisphere Right hemisphere Sequential Simultaneous Literalness Big picture Analysis Synthesis Left hemisphere Right hemisphere

25. WHAT IS CREATIVITY

26. Process “ a process by which a symbolic domain in the culture is changed. New songs, new ideas, new machines are what creativity is about.” (Csikszentmihalyi)

27. Process CREATIVITY

28. System According to Csikszentmihalyi, creativity is found in a system consisting of: “ a culture that contains symbolic rules,

29. a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain,

30. and a field of experts who recognized and validate the innovation.”

31. System Apple I Macintosh

32. Way of Seeing

33. Force Tension between reality and vision (Senge) reality vision Creative tension