The document emphasizes the importance of nurturing creativity by overcoming the fear of external approval and fostering innovative thinking. It highlights the qualities of intuitive thinkers and warns against self-sabotage while encouraging action and exploration in the creative process. Ultimately, it advocates for the idea that creativity is essential for personal and organizational growth, urging individuals to take risks and embrace change.

1. Nurturing Your
Creativity:
Bringing Out the Right
Side of Your Brain

2. “Most people become stuck
because they are waiting. Waiting
for some external approval of their
internal drive to create….
They’re waiting for someone to
tell them it’s OK to proceed.”
Michele Woodward

3. Discuss:
What are the other
potential payoffs for
using your creativity?

4. Intuition (N)

5. The following statements generally apply to me:
• I remember events by what I read
“between the lines” about their meaning.
• I solve problems by leaping between different
ideas and possibilities.
• I am interested in doing things that are new
and different.

6. The following statements generally apply to me:
• I like to see the big picture, then to find out
the facts.
• I trust impressions, symbols, and metaphors
more than what I actually experienced
• Sometimes I think so much about new
possibilities that I never look at how to
make them a reality.

7. Discuss:
Why else some people
are wet-blankets
Wet Blankets

8. “To the man who only has a
hammer in the toolkit, every
problem looks like a nail.”
–Abraham Maslow

9. “Failure only comes
when we forget our ideals/
objectives/ principles.”
––Jawaharlal Nehru

10. Innovation is essential to
organizational health and
future viability!

11. "In order to be creative,
you have to know how to
prepare to be creative."
–Twyla Tharp, “The Creative Habit”

12. Discuss:
What is your typical
self-sabotage?

13. “Leap and the net
will appear”
–Linnea Spransy

14. “Most innovation is the product of
discovery, not inspiration. Creative
types get out and about, seek
insights from all around, test and
tweak, then test and tweak again.”
–Peter Sims

15. Discuss:
Where do you get
your best ideas?

16. Question:
“What is behind
this funk?”

17. Two evaluation questions
for your creation:
 Did it move people?
 How was my process/behavior
along the way?

18. The goal of a creative is to tell the
story!

19. “A ship in a safe harbor is safe,
but that is not what a ship is built
for.”
–William Shedd

20. “We must always be jumping off
cliffs and developing our wings on
the way down.”