Joy: Expanding Human Awareness

1967

Creativity - The use of experience in unusual, productive, and satisfying ways.

1. Freeing or Acquisition - an acquired repertoire of knowledge and experience.

To be open to experience - able to sense and perceive environment and to be aware of own internal feelings.

• developing senses
• unblocking
• development of an awareness of self and own feelings
• fantasy, body position, doubling (imitating another), introspective seclusion

2. Association - relate experiential elements to each other - combining information, sensations or feelings; free association; essence & analogy, humming
3. Expression - communication skill - symbolism - fluency: Written, painted, sung, danced, spoken, acted, etc.
4. Evaluation - abstraction of relevant, unbiasing, "feel" (prelogical clues), "hunch" or "intuition" (hedonic response)
5. Perseverance - follow through to completion - practice - "maturing the embryonic" - work out the details

Source: William C. Schutz, Joy: Expanding Human Awareness, 1967