Creativity Matters
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore…while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Sir Isaac Newton, Physicist and Mathematician
Here’s a link to an hour long presentation I gave on creativity at the Santa Clara University for a group of graduate students in the emerging and important field of positive psychology. I was invited by Dr. Shauna Shapiro, an internationally recognized teacher and advocate for mindfulness in all aspects of life. The presentation contains […]
In this video, Austin Hill Shaw, founder of Creativity Matters and author of The Shoreline of Wonder: On Being Creative explores the parallels between three vehicles of Tibetan (Vajrayana) Buddhism– the path of renunciation, the path of service, and the path of integration–and the three components of creativity–insight, manifestation, and Self-expression.
In this video, filmed on Sunday morning 2012 after the highly energized, yearly ritual of burning the man, festival goers continue to go strong, enjoying the life giving qualities of destroying, then being born anew. At Burning Man, creativity and creative expression are everywhere, in costumes, in communication, in performances, and in the prolific outpouring […]
There are many ways to greet a fellow human being. And from the point of view of creativity, there is one greeting that I find to be particularly powerful: Aloha! Like many traditional greetings, greetings that recognize and honor the dynamic, interpendent world around us, the word “aloha” has many translations, one of which is […]
