 Perhaps the
most important attribute anyone brings to the marketplace
today is his or her creativity: the ability to work in
the realm of possibility, to think up fresh approaches,
and to keep an open mind. Unbind Your Mind is
a practical approach to creativity and is based on three
assumptions:
 Creativity is a
skill that can be developed through practice.
How we think
about creativity influences how creative we are.
Creativity must
be constantly renewed. Unbind
Your Mind is based on extensive research about
the characteristics of creative people. Author Dr.
Janelle Barlow has identified six basic characteristics
that creative people share. These could also be called
styles of thinking or even work tactics:
Fluency of
ideas
Withholding of
judgment
Tolerance of
ambiguity
Flexibility or
imagination
Focus or
immersion in the subject
Preference for
disorder/chaos/ irregularity/assymetry.
With regular practice of these
characteristics, we improve in our creative expression
and thereby better express our own uniqueness.
Unbind Your Mind
contains 365 Mind Flexor exercises (a full year's worth of practice!)
for experimenting with these six basic characteristics.
Each Mind Flexor takes approximately 30 seconds to 3
minutes to practice. Some Mind Flexors
are started at the beginning of the day and processed
throughout the day. The Mind Flexors
can be done by individuals or groups of people wishing to
share their creative approaches—even over the
Internet. The Mind Flexors are
designed with seven day's worth of Flexors
on a single page, so they can be torn out of the
spiral-bound binder and carried with you for one week's
time.
Many trainers and process facilitators like
to use the Mind Flexors as mental
warm-ups for their groups or as ice-breakers. Used by
individuals or by groups, this book is a true treasure in
terms of its original approach, easy applicability and
literally hundreds of exercises. TMI, USA also offers
practical and tailored workshops and seminars to teach these principles. Please e-mail,
write or call us for more information.
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