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This is great Ivo. I work with Focusing (Gendlin's model) regularly not only with Psychodrama, but art therapy as well and verbal therapy. It is a deeply powerful tool that often I find zeros into the core of the issues using the individuals inner creativity to listen to that deeper self. I finsd that when I do Psychodrama or any other therapy now, I always ask for the person to listen and feel for that felt sense and to listen to that.<br>Thanks<br>Jen<br><br><br>Jen Kristel, M.A.,CPT CET<br>Expressive Arts Therapist<br>
Reiki Teacher/Master<br>Playback Theatre Director/teacher<br><br>Live Simply, so that others may simply live" Quaker Saying<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:59:01 +0100<br>Subject: Re: philosophy and psychology of creativity<br>From: ibanaco@gmail.com<br>To: adam@blatner.com<br>CC: list@grouptalkweb.org<br><br>Hi Adam,<div><br></div><div>Very interesting. I know you are familiar with the work of A. Whitehead. One contemporary approach that I am finding particularly useful is the work of Eugene Gendlin, namely his Focusing approach and Thinking at the Edge. Behind those techniques are a very robust philosophical work that includes the book "Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning" and "A Process Model". As far as I understand it, Gendlin has a pretty good way of finding not just in theoretical terms but in his therapeutic practice creativity. Concepts and experiences like "the Edge", "felt sense", "the implicit", "carrying forward" and so on are essential in his work. Above all, his practice, as I understanding it, always goes beyond the typical pre-ego material, but opens the space to a creativity process that is inherently post-ego. Should be interesting to explore the bridge between your own work with Gendlin's. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Ivo </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br><br><div class="EC_gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Adam Blatner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ablatner@verizon.net">ablatner@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">The philosophy of creativity is radical, because it
requires a fine tuning of a particular variable.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> To be spontaneous, one of the
components that gives rise to creativity, one must open, and believe that there
is something to which one opens, a kind of "there," a muse, a god, a spirit, an
unconscious that can be creative, whatever it's called, it's trans-personal,
beyond the ego and its controls or even the capacity to talk about or define
what is opened to. It's a kind of surrender.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> And yet there is a tendency in
the psyche to grasp that which one has opened to, to name it, try to define it,
language it (language here being used as a verb!), know what it is. Yet as soon
as one crystallizes that which one opens to, it becomes a bit of a cultural
conserve, and interferes with further opening. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> So the trick is to "believe"
enough to open, to allow that connection with whatever mysterious source it may
be to operate; yet not to believe so much that you begin to believe that you
know what you're believing in, because whatever you think it is, it's more, and
it's different from your limited understanding. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> My tentative
solution is to cultivate imagination as an intentional act, to know you're
playing, imagining, to have that extra surplus reality "frame" around it, to put
it into virtual parentheses, a working model, a scaffold for intuition. Yet,
though you use it, you're more than ready to deconstruct the scaffold in the
service of building another one, a different possibility, allowing for creative
deconstruction and re-construction, re-opening. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Still, this model
itself is tentative, and I'm open to feedback as I wrestle with what seems to me
to be some paradoxes of creativity. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Warmly, Adam</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Adam Blatner, M.D.<font color="#888888"><br> website: <a href="http://www.blatner.com/adam/">www.blatner.com/adam/</a>
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