4 CREATIVITY: The Power of Change E-Book

Linda Vera Roethlisberger

• Herausgeber: tredition
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Serie: Guidebooks
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Seitenzahl: 86

Beschreibung

In the Trilogos Beacon series, author Linda Vera Roethlisberger takes a nuanced look at individual aspects of the core competencies of being human. This booklet 4 about the human capability of creativity from the Trilogos Wegweiser series is about: - Creativity, an often used term: What does it have to do with me personally? - How do I act and react in difficult situations? - How do I deal with unexpected challenges? This booklet offers some explanations and thoughts on these topics as well as exercises that might prove helpful.

Leseprobe

Linda Vera Roethlisberger

CREATIVITY: THE POWER OF CHANGE

©2021 Trilogos Foundation

Layout and Illustrations: AMBERPRESS, Gosia Warrink and Katja Koeberlin

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ISBN Hardcover: 978-3-347-32328-5

ISBN e-Book: 978-3-347-32329-2

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In the beginning was the Word,

so that we might learn to grow,

to grow to the highest peak –

beyond the Word.

Linda Vera

Contents

Introduction

My Story

1 What is creativity?

2 Giving room to creativity

3 Creativity and the applied Trilogos Method

Prologue

Appendix: Glossary – Literature – Trilogos on the internet

Introduction

Inventiveness, originality, a touch of non-conformity: for a long time, creativity seemed to be reserved for geniuses. Gifted artists such as Michelangelo and Da Vinci, Beethoven or Goethe created works that were ahead of their time and continue to move us to this day, long after their passing. Then we have material objects such as toothpaste, paper, airplanes and even coffee filters, which, although commonplace in our everyday lives, were likewise created by resourceful minds. But how does a researcher achieve a breakthrough? How did Werner von Siemens invent the tram or how did Marie Curie discover radium, endure the discrimination to which she was exposed as a woman in the world of science and win the Nobel Prize twice? And how did the American dancer Loïe Fuller even come up with the idea of the Radium Dance, in which she mined this newly discovered element and made her stage clothes glow without any spotlights?

Ideas, artistic creation, personal growth, inspiration, intuition, imagination and enthusiasm – all these are aspects that characterize creative people. Skill counts too, of course, because creativity is not just about expressing an idea but ultimately about putting it into practice, in order to make a difference in people’s lives.

Art is what not everyone can do –

or what everyone could do but

what nobody thinks of doing.

Linda Vera

Now that think tanks from the business world have discovered creativity for themselves, creativity is experiencing a real hype. There is hardly a field in which creativity is not explicitly required. Innovations, strategic solutions and product development all call for creative approaches. Creative markets, clouds, directors, managers … the list is long and continues to grow every day.

But what exactly is creativity all about? How do you become creative? And what do you do when you have writer’s block, for example? When you sit for hours staring at a blank sheet of paper or screen on your computer yet can’t think of anything to write? If you try for months to solve a problem or to master a challenge in different ways yet aren’t really coming up with any new idea?

Creativity contains an unpredictable element. It may appear as suddenly as a shooting star or a summer thunderstorm. A single “Eureka!” moment can change your life or that of thousands and thousands of people forever. What a mysterious force! One thing is certain: we cannot force ourselves, or be forced, to be creative. But what we can do is to track down the phenomenon of creativity and make it our own.

The good thing about the enthusiasm for creativity is that scientific disciplines such as neuroscience are now also dealing with the phenomenon of creativity (see Chapter 1), although, as mentioned, creative processes cannot be commanded only encouraged (see Chapter 2). Some people do well under pressure while others need peace and quiet in order to be creative. Or, while one person comes up with the most amazing solutions, the other remains stuck in a blackout.

That’s why it is important to take the hype and excitement away from creativity and to silently reflect on what it is really all about. In order to understand creativity, we must go back to the beginning – but to the very beginning of all beginnings: to creation. Because creativity comes from Latin creare, meaning “to make grow” or “to bring forth,” and thus came into play at the very beginning of the universe.

However, and from whatever origin our cosmos developed, in the creatures and creations around us we recognize a common denominator: the urge to live and to evolve. Indeed, it is not only bare survival that defines our innermost core of being. When looking at the history of mankind, we find that the ambition to improve one’s living conditions, to invent something new and to develop it further existed already among our earliest ancestors. That ambition also included the desire to embellish, to shape and design our environment, and to become co-creators. Hence, time and again the goal has been to create for the individual and therefore for the whole out of a responsible, conscious conviction.

According to archaeological findings, human creativity developed even before Homo sapiens emerged 200,000 years ago. Research indicates that our innovative strength has gained momentum through biological and societal factors and then experienced its first bloom once different population groups began to encounter and mingle with one another. From this we learn an important message: creativity is a part of us, and it grows through input, diversity.

Each of us carries creativity within us, because it is through Creative Power that we humans were originally conceived and subsequently developed in the course of evolution. If we learn to consciously open ourselves up to this force not only on the physical level, but also psychologically – on the cognitive, emotional and spiritual levels – creativity becomes our resource, like basic trust, intuition and desire for individuation. Then we can use this miraculous energy more consciously and responsibly to develop and participate in the everlasting process of creation.

Inspiration, Creative Power and

energy flow into you when you are

in harmony with the infinite.

Paramahansa Yogananda

In this sense, the field of creativity or human potential is not limited to artists and researchers, nor to business or trendy creative factories. Indeed, Creative Power is already shown by the toddler who wants to shape something from a bit of soil with his hands. The friend who writes a get-well card and finds the right words. The bus driver, the cook, the neighbor down the street, in short: each of us can be creative and produce something that will delight, touch, tickle or comfort another. Many of the smallest human gestures are based on creativity. And some of them live on in our family stories for generations.

Creativity also plays an important role in personality and consciousness work. The holistic approach of the Trilogos Method makes an essential contribution in that respect as well, enticing us to reach beyond the joy of creation towards the development of competencies such that our inventiveness can be always used for the good and be aligned with human values − thanks to our very personal potential, and thanks to our creativity.

In engaging with ourselves, we get better and better at recognizing our own dispositions and patterns and learn to create new, healing structures that will have harmonizing effects on ourselves and our environment (see Chapter 3). This approach also involves accessing the contents of our unconscious and expanding the pool of knowledge and perceptions, in order to create something new.

We transition from seeker to finder – and recognize our place in this wide universe: as a small grain of sand next to billions of others, liberated time and again from the most diverse toxins and enabled to shine in the light – not as what we want to be, but rather as what we are.

My story

Again and again, it is instructive to look back at one’s own life and evaluate it. Our ownmost being – and thus perhaps also our task in life – often shines through already in early childhood and becomes temporarily buried or repressed, only to resurge at a later point in our biography.

Creativity as a source of artistic expression and trilogical development of consciousness and personality has been a constant part of my life from an early age. Already as a child I felt drawn to discussions about God and the world and was eager to listen in on the lively conversations that adults were having around me. They never bored me, on the contrary.

I also loved drawing and painting at an early age. At the age of five, I created a portrait of my father and at eight a selfportrait. When I look at these early works today, I am amazed at the wholeness of my underlying perception and at the symbols that I used to express what I perceived yet was still largely unable to understand.

Later, during my time as a teacher, I had visions of becoming a “sculptor for the people.” The work with the children, the observation of their genetic dispositions and the effects of their psychogenetic influences preoccupied me and created in me the desire to express this artistically. For the next twelve years I remained true to my profession as a teacher, yet pursued my number one hobby, painting, in my spare time. I took courses in Bern and Paris and soon painted my first batik and oil paintings. They had titles like “On the Journey to Wisdom” or “Because I Love People” – themes that were very important to me at the time. It was my love for people that became most predominant in my everyday life as a teacher and artist. In addition, I was active as an intuitive-mediumistic consultant within my circle of friends, colleagues as well as the parents of my pupils at that time.

In 1990, I finally started my own business and founded Trilogos as a school for personality and consciousness formation. The perception and expression of the soul was something that moved me deeply, and so I wrote poems, thought a lot and wrote books, developed exercises and dedicated myself completely to the exploration of human potential. In a way, the two currents that have occupied me since my childhood – artistic creation and individuation – have carried me from the profession of teacher to the profession of “school of life teacher” and free spirit.