Crayon Breaking Project
Helping Spark and Expand Creativity and Creative Thinking Around the Globe
I have spent 30+ years searching for ways to integrate all that I have done with what I do with the attention to consciously focus on my life mission. This page and the pages it will grow into or the web site or sites it may grow into was an AHA this morning while walking, May 25th, 2006. I was thinking about a professional friend, Joel Goodman, and the 30+ years he and his wife Margie have devoted to his mission through their THE HUMOR PROJECT and their annual HUMOR AND CREATIVITY CONFERENCE. Then I was nearly knocked down by a blinding flash of the blatantly obvious.
"START YOUR OWN PROJECT"
and the name started out as BROKEN CRAYONS PROJECT because of my creative thinking book: BROKEN CRAYONS. But through my subconscious I heard Sid and Bea Parnes and Pansy and Paul Torrance reminding me that BROKEN CRAYONS could be misunderstood and that what I was really committed to was HELPING PEOPLE REALIZE THEY CAN BREAK THEIR OWN CRAYONS and that it is the act of BREAKING CRAYONS that is important in sparking or generating creative thinking when we need it.
With that said I can only tell you that this project is focusing on helping people discover, rediscover, develop, expand and enrich creative thinking in themselves and other plus to learn creative thinking systems, techniques/tools/, approaches/attitudes, methods, processes and strategies (S.T.A.M.P.S. see BROKEN CRAYONS book for a more detailed explanation).
Where it is going?
towards developing creative thinking in a continuously growing manner in as many people and workplaces as it can.
What will it look like?
not sure
What will it become?
not sure
Who will it strive to serve and benefit?
You and as many other people as it can.
Who will do the work and be involved?
As many people as I can find or are willing to help directly in the project, through this project, through their own projects or through their own projects in conjunction with the CRAYON BREAKING PROJECT.
OTHER GLOBAL CREATIVITY PROJECTS
One excellent global project that started at CPSI has grown around the world....Creativity Week and Innovation Day. It is celebrated each year in many countries, each year the number is increasing. The dates are April 15 through the 21st, beginning with honoring Leonard da Vinci on his birthday, April 15th.
Visit and explore their website often and learn about many of the different excellent local, national, and international projects CID & IW has produced so far.
To learn about many more go to my HOT LINKS...CREATIVE LEAPS webpages
http://www.cre8ng.com.leaps.shtml
Also explore the CREATIVITY ASSOCIATIONS AND CONFERENCES webpage
http://www.cre8ng.com/creativityconferences.htm
Please return weekly and see how the CRAYON BREAKING PROJECT grows.
To begin, wander around the main web site until you find something that interests you.
look at all of the 3 primary sections
1. Professional section
2. Creativity Resources section
3. LIFE IS A CREATIVE JOURNEY, NOT A GUIDED TOUR section.
each possess hundreds of pages of material and are continuously growing and being improved.
Alan
"Being creative is always a choice, your choice, our choice! " Alan