Looking to unlock your full creative potential? Apply now for this year’s annual Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru To leave a comment on this TEDx talk, please visit its home on YouTube here. From the TEDx presentation, Creativity: Your Core Human Need Since the beginning of Homo sapiens, the […]
[VIDEO] Creativity in the Workplace Part 2: What are the Links Between Creativity and Survival?
Want to take your life to a whole new level of fulfillment? Apply now for this year’s annual Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru. Creativity and survival Creativity is no longer a feel-good, luxury item of “the creative class” but an essential (and learnable) skill for your entire organization. When […]
[VIDEO] Reflections on the 2016 Healing and Self-Expression Plant Medicine Retreat
This is the experience you’ve been waiting for. Apply for the Healing and Self-Expression Plant Medicine Retreat TODAY! Wow! What an amazing, life-changing experience we had in Peru! In the words of one of our participants: “I gained a tremendous amount of clarity and understanding…I feel really lucky that I got much more out of this […]
[VIDEO] What is Self-expression?
Want to be fully Self-expressed? Apply now for this year’s Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru Self-expression begins where self consciousness ends -Austin Hill Shaw If you really want to have a rich and meaningful life, learning about Self-expression and how to do it is essential. Think of a time that […]
[VIDEO] Creativity in the Workplace Part 1: The Secret to Creating Fulfillment in Your Work Experience
Want to tap into your single most powerful attribute? Now accepting applications for this year’s Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru. (Each retreat limited to 10 participants only) A brief history of fulfillment in the workplace Let’s start with a story from last century, in the early 1920s. At that time General […]
[VIDEO] Do I ever hit a wall?
Recently I had the opportunity to present to a class on innovation and entrepreneurship at San Francisco State University. They had some great questions for me, including how to get unstuck when I feel stuck.
[ARTICLE] The Body, Mind, and Spirit of Bay Area Creativity
Apply now for this year’s Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru. Each retreat limited to 10 participants only. The Bay Area is the single most creative and innovative region in the United States, if not the world. Home to such major players as Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, […]
[VIDEO] How to Build Cultures of Innovation, Part III: Empowerment
The power of empowerment In this video, we explore how to see others in a way that brings forth their most defining human trait: their innate ability to create. As a magpie is meant to fly and a dolphin to swim, as human beings, we are meant to create. Simply put, creativity is the way that […]
[VIDEO] Tribute to Prince: Let’s Go Crazy!
Prince: A fully embodied creator Even though all of have creativity as our core human trait, few of us activate it in all aspects of our lives. Some of us don’t activate it at all, preferring instead to cling to dogmas and outmoded belief systems about ourselves, about others, and about the world at large. […]
[VIDEO] How to Build Cultures of Innovation, Part II: Acknowledgement
The power of acknowledgement In this video, we explore how to support others willingness to act, and keep on acting, even when they make mistakes, what is known as acknowledgement. Acknowledgement is extending good will towards a persons willingness to try. Moreover, it is about establishing a safe space for people to try, including trying […]