Yesterday I attended the Ilawarra Children's Festival's Creativity Conference. I thought it would have a lot to teach me about creative development for adults and I was right. Pablo Picasso is quoted as saying "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
An important message from the conference was to trust the uncontrollable whimsical ideation process that leads you into the unknown. Resist controlling the outcome and something wonderful can emerge out of all the mess that is created. We need to replace fear with trust, control with play. We need to just turn up an allow the creative process to happen without jumping to outcomes prematurely.
Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way) gives this same advice to simply turn up to the page, which I followed today in my morning pages. I offer them here as an example of the fun one can have when one lets ideas frolic free.
