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] 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] What are the links between creativity and motherhood?
Human beings are born the most helpless of creatures. As such, being human with our innate ability to create presupposes that there was someone there for us to shepherd us forward from total helplessness to relative autonomy. Who was that person? Our mothers! Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there. We are all […]
[VIDEO] How to Build Cultures of Innovation, Part I: Appreciation
For many businesses and organizations, the ability to innovate, to come up with new products, services, and ways of being as well as the ability to tackle complex problems and challenges, can be the difference between thriving and floundering. What steps, though, can you take right now to actively promote the creativity of your team […]
[VIDEO] Diversity and Unconscious Bias: The Creativity Matters Interview with Kia Afcari
Creativity and Diversity What is the connection between creativity and diversity? What are the links between inclusive organizational cultures and innovation? How do businesses and organization that actively promote diversity perform in comparison with those that do not? Earlier this year I had the pleasure of interviewing Kia Afcari, a culture, change, diversity, and inclusion expert. Born […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part IX: Alcatraz and the Jungian Shadow
…the fact that Alcatraz, the world’s first super prison, sits in the middle of the Golden Gate, one of the world’s most famous portals, serves as a reminder that light and darkness are paired opposites; they cannot be extracted from one another. Welcome to Alcatraz The summer of 1934, during the 21 year respite between the […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part VIII: The City of Gold
Gold is revered cross-culturally because it seems to build a bridge between this world and some other. The City of Gold The peninsula currently known as San Francisco has had many names, and based on the number of indigenous tribes living in the area before the Spanish arrived, many more than I’ll be able to report. […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part V: The Spirit of Cooperation Fueling Innovation
…it’s no accident that high tech arose in the Bay Area and not in the more established intellectual hotspots of the East Coast. Whereas East Coast companies such as IBM and Xerox were both secretive and insular, not wanting the secrets behind their advances to be leaked out to competing companies, the cooperative environments of […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part IV: The Grinding Geology
Since creativity and destruction are two sides of the same coin (in order to create anything, something must be destroyed, morphed, or transformed), those who get to feel the occasional shrugs of the earth, as Bay Area inhabitants bear witness, also gain valued, experiential insight into the dynamic, interdependent, creative universe in which we inhabit. […]