The Bay Area is hands down the single most creative and innovative region in the United States, receiving a whopping 32 percent of all the venture capital invested in the United States. Introduction to the “Creativity and Bay Area Innovation” series The Bay Area is hands down the single most creative and innovative region in the […]
[VIDEO] Transformation Happens in the Darkness
When considering our creativity, it’s helpful to think of it in this way: “Growth happens in the light, transformation in the darkness.” Growth has to do with creative manifestation, our ability to use our resources, planning skills, and volition to turn our insights into reality. Transformation, however, are those experiences that bring about creative insights in […]
Creativity and Psychedelics: Religious Scholar Huston Smith and the Good Friday Experiment
..listening to the angelic music from the choir being piped down into the basement room, and having his consciousness greatly expanded by the chemicals in the mushrooms, Huston experienced a homecoming he’d longed for all his life: a direct, personal encounter with God. Psychedelics: An important tool for creativity and innovation As a creativity expert, my […]
Creativity and Gender Equality: The Need for True Empowerment in Both Women and Men
Here’s an amazing TED talk from a new friend of mine, Joselyn DiPetta, whom I fortuitously met in the final moments of the 2015 Wisdom 2.0 Conference after party. Her above talk,”The Missing Piece in the Gender Equality Puzzle” is fantastic, and is a must see for anyone wanting to: transcend the limitations of stereotypes […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression
Shakespeare grieved the loss of his 11-year-old son while writing Hamlet. Picasso’s most impactful painting mourned the atrocities of Guernica, the first civilian bombing in the history of the world. Pearl Jam’s Ten, an album that has sold over ten million copies, was created as the founding members, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, mourned the loss of their […]
Transcendence, Transformation, and Transmutation: The Secret Links Between, Insight, Innovation, and Healing
This is a follow up talk to the Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression
Creative Insight, Wisdom, and the Feminine
Here is one of my favorite articles that I had the pleasure of writing, which appeared in the October 2013 Women’s Issue of Common Ground Magazine. The article is called “Wisdom and the Feminine” and explores the links between the feminine expression of wisdom and creativity at the levels of body, mind, and spirit. It is […]
Austin Hill Shaw Speaks on Creativity to Dr. Shauna Shapiro’s Positive Psychology Class at Santa Clara University
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 […]
Austin Hill Shaw Speaks on the Power of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
This excerpt was taken from an hour long presentation by Austin Hill Shaw at the NLP Coaching Institute of California on Saturday, November 3, 2012. The full presentation was entitled “Creativity Demystified: The 3 Components of Creativity and How to Cultivate them Using NLP Techniques”. http://youtu.be/m-BknXbuiIs
Austin Hill Shaw’s Will Be Presenting as Part of “The Self as a Creative, Embodied Process” at the Science and Nonduality Conference
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting my talk, “Creativity and Nonduality: How the Tension Between the Egoic Identity and the Absolute Self Shapes the Creative Process” as part of a series of talks called “The Self as a Creative, Embodied Process” on Saturday, October 27th at the Larkspur Room of the […]