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Innovation
and Creativity Ezines and Newsletters shares a sampling of
"ezines" and newsletters focused on creativity, creativity tools and
innovation and innovation tools.
Energy
Inventions provides news and information about innovative
inventions and future technology.
Academic Earth offers
thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.
The
Brainwaves® Center on Cape Cod is
co-directed by Allen D. Bragdon and David Gamon, PhD. Allen D. Bragdon
is the Founding Editor of Games magazine, author and a puzzle
columnist. Dr. David Gamon is a researcher, author and teacher in the
cognitive sciences. The Center provides training and targeted mental
exercises in six zones of practical intelligence—memory and
concentration; appropriate emotional response; executive planning;
effective social interaction; language and computations skills;
creative spatial and constructional functions. Their well-designed
website shares knowledge in the applied value of research in the
cognitive sciences. They also publish and sell books and a newsletter.
Cristina Andersson of Finland is an author,
educationalist and soprano. In collaboration with fellow musician
Collin Hansen, she has written a powerful book, The Winning Helix —
The Art of Learning and Manifesting Your True Potential, on
creating winning results with help of an intensive, dynamic and
conscious action-learning process, using the metaphor of the DNA double
helix. You can read the book for free here.
All
Gifted Children is Esther Andrews' mission to help parents
develop their children's genius and their maximum potential. A former
school principal with 26 years of experience developing children's
intelligence, Esther has filled her website with a wealth of resources,
and through her articles, Ezine, Ebooks and live, online seminars she
shares her knowledge and philosophy. Minds are our most precious
resource. Esther's methods nurture them from the youngest age.
Since we raised the question of whether teaching perfect pitch to
adults would have much the same effect on the left plenum temporales
— the core of our intellect, doubling in physical size — as it does in
young children, we've had pointed out to us David Burges'
most interesting site for a method that reportedly does teach perfect
pitch to adults. Already possessed of such pitch, Win is unable to
evaluate the method directly and would like to hear from others who can.
Kristrinah Talus-Ayala has an
extensive website, The Center for Creativity, a "Studio for
Expressive Arts in Self-development,
Creativity and Psychotherapy". They're doing some really fine work in
creativity, especially in art creativity, and providing a very needed
place where women can find meaningful and sensitive self-expression.
Centerpointe Research Institute
provides a high-tech program for meditation and mind development. It
uses the Holosync® audio
technology which, when listened to with stereo headphones, "stimulates
the
central nervous system to create deep meditation, boost mental
abilities,
create remarkable healing of emotional problems, and dramatically lower
stress levels." On their web site you can listen to a free on-line demo.
Ralph
Cerchione has a growing blog site whose purpose is to explore
the idea of developing exceptional if not superhuman abilities from
every possible angle. Links, reviews, articles, opinions.
ChildMinds
was an e-community of
parents, teachers and other professionals working together to discuss
and develop new understandings of young children. It was oriented to
ways of developing human potential in all positive regards, not only
intellectual. It may sometime be revived under another title, but
this listing unfortunately got taken over by spammers and is no longer
recommended here.
The ChildWrite Project is generating,
and starting to publish, children's story books modeling not what
children should think but how to think and perceive. Explore
the fascinating archives of this group which has been functioning as an
eGroup.
Cleanlanguage.co.uk
is the extensive website of The Centre for Symbolic Modelling, Clean
Language and the Metaphor Therapy of David Grove. Good stuff. Win
believes these people represent one of the major new perspectives now
emerging for us on the human condition.
Colloquy
is, to the best of our knowledge, the first high-IQ society based
entirely on the Internet. It is created as a forum for the collegial
sharing of thoughts, experiences, and creative expression among people
of superior intelligence. The group's regent is Julia Cachia. Courtesy,
congeniality and civility are the outstanding characteristics of the
discourse among the members of Colloquy's egroup. Yahoo-groups
registration required.
The Creative Education Foundation
hosts an annual World Congress on Creativity late each June. The
Foundation and its congress, known as The Creative Problem-Solving
Institute, were founded a half century ago as the very start of the
world-wide creativity movement. The Foundation also provides other
events, an extensive library and catalog of resources, and training and
consulting services. Project Renaissance's founder, Win Wenger,
Ph.D., taught there each June at the Creative Problem-Solving
Institute from 1977 to 2007 and feels that he has learned there much
more than he has taught.
In the 1950s, Alex Osborn launched the
world-wide creativity movement, at a time when everyone "knew," as so
many today "know" to be the case with "intelligence," that "creativity"
was something you were either born with or born without, not something
that could be learned, practiced, taught. The Osborn-Parnes CPS Method
is still the reference method for the creativity movement, and the
annual Creative
Problem-Solving Institute, at which our own Win Wenger taught
for thirty years, has pretty much been the annual World Congress on
creativity. Win acknowledges earlier years of the annual Creative
Problem-Solving Institute as his own reference point and, indeed,
pretty much his "spiritual home." The annual Institute often is one of
the finest experiences you can find anywhere, any time.
Creativity for Innovation provides an
overview of today's availability of organisations and websites that
share the interest of creative thinking. More than 370 links are
divided into 40 categories for the visitor's convenience.
Korzybsky's distinction of map from territory (in
General Semantics) has always seemed to us to be profoundly
consequential, one of the great ideas of modern world civilization.
Many who see this have for a very long time been seeking for a simpler,
easier-to-understand way to deal with and apply Korzybsky's involved,
world-changing concepts. The best may be yet to come, but a fair start
is made by Bruce and Susan Kodish in their new book, Drive
Yourself Sane.
Eye2theWorld
has an outstanding Ezine with information and resources for 21st
century education. Eye2theWorld's mission is to reform society's
perceptions of education so that individuals can reach and maintain
their dreams of successful lives as they move through the 21st century.
Well-chosen articles by world experts and a passion for their mission
make this site one to visit regularly. Their logo is a beautiful eye.
Look closely—the world is in it.
Kadon Enterprises, Inc., has a unique website of mind games, Gamepuzzles
for the Joy of Thinking that work on both sides of your
brain and develop both abstract spatial logic and intuitive/aesthetic
sensibilities. Founded and headed by Kate Jones since 1980.
Michael
Gelb, internationally renowned author, speaker, and consultant,
helps clients around the world solve their most important business
challenges and make their vision, mission, values and strategy real.
Among his bestsellers are How to Think Like Leonardo daVinci
and Work Like daVinci, his most recent being DaVinci Decoded,
building on Leonardo's seven principles for developing genius. Browse
his website and be inspired by this modern-day Renaissance man.
Josh Hinds' Get
Motivation website is chockful of motivational, personal
development and self-improvement resources. His subtitle reads,
"motivation and inspiration 24/7"! Browse through thousands of
inspirational quotations, join a community, find tools, collaboration
and life changing connections.
Gifted
Education Press is the publisher of many excellent books in the
gifted education field. Receive a complimentary issue of Gifted
Education Press Quarterly by emailing the publisher, Maurice Fisher.
One of the more significant books
written last century was by John Curtis Gowan: Trance, Art
and Creativity. John was one of the brighter and more creative
minds around, and his insights on giftedness were infinitely ahead of
most of his fellow professionals. It is an indictment of numerous
institutions and interests that his book has been out of print for
twenty years. We are now delighted to advise that his son, John Gowan,
has put this entire great book free online for you as a memorial to his
father. I am ecstatic that this is once again available. Go read it and
get excited.
The
Great Illusion...the Unlocking of the Secret Path is Victor
Kahn's beautiful showcase of his mystic poetry, accompanied by
exquisite surreal paintings by Jim Warren. Much or most of this
extensive and very fine experience you may
already know. But it is so exceptionally well done we thought you might
like to see it.
Cliff Havener has a site that cites
"cultural creatives (that...) exist in all segments of society." Most
of these creatives feel like outcasts but are defined by a core of
common values, across all segments of society and cultures. Cliff
describes these common values in "the integrative view of life" in his
book, Meaning — The Secret of Being Alive. This work defines
what Havener sees as the main cultural transformation now going on all
around us.
InnovationTools offers
a focused, growing collection of the best innovation, creativity and
brainstorming resources for entrepreneurs, innovators and other
creative professionals, The brainchild of Chuck Frey, InnovationTools
contains numerous articles on creativity, reviews of creativity
software and books, an Innovation Weblog, news about innovation, links
to great resources, and more.
The
Learning Consortium is the joyful creation of Vanda North,
designed to be a web portal for all the best people, products and
programs that will assist you to 'Be the Best You Can Be!' Vanda
specializes in 'Learning Differences' (Dyslexia; ADD, etc.) and has a
series of seminars called 'The Art of Self Leadership'. Her enthusiasm
and energy are contagious. Treat yourself to some of that TLC — Think,
Learn, Create and Live.
The
Learning Revolution is the website of Jeannette Vos, Ed.D., the
co-author of The Learning Revolution, which has sold nearly 9
million copies in China and is also a best seller in Sweden and New
Zealand. The International new edition was released in August 1999.
Jeannette is an international corporate and educational trainer in
accelerated learning and brain-compatible learning, with over 30 years'
experience as an educator. She can be reached by email.
Liberty Zone passionately
addresses some of the terrible deficiencies of today's school system,
and Liberty Zone's Darlene Sartore is forming neighborhood Educare
Co-ops to implement far-reaching improvements. She is looking for
highly motivated individuals and quality thinkers to get involved. You
can reach her by email.
Among many people who are working under inspiration from
Image-Streaming or even about Image-Streaming and related phenomena,
one is Cecil McGregor. His work does
presuppose the reader is well acquainted with both Image-Streaming and
the field of neurolinguistic programming. If you have acquaintance with
both, then his site is well worth visiting for you, containing some
very good insights and ideas. Note: Along the way, Mr.
McGregor expresses some views which are not necessarily those of
Project Renaissance—and not necessarily counter to them either.
Joan
McKenna has an extraordinary site. Joan is one of the
conceptual and perceptual giants among us.
London-based Michael Breen is one of
the top NLP master trainers in the world. His website, MBNLP.com, is
superb by any standard. He conducts training courses like no other, and
opportunities for one-on-one tutoring in his "academy". You can even
listen to a special dialog between Michael and NLP master Eric Robbie
on the website.
Paradigm
Persuasion (formerly "Mindlink") is an enthusiastically
eclectic assembly by Rick Ashby. As parent and teacher, he is host to
the Childminds eGroup, and provides a wide range of other resources,
insights, and highly independent perspectives. His tele-course teaches
communication skills that open new opportunities and help you control
your future.
We are not into memory techniques,
believing understanding to be far more useful, important and rewarding.
However, we want to acknowledge the Mind Tools Bookstore as an
excellent resource center in mnemonics, invaluable for those to whom
memory is an issue. Mind Tools Bookstore is also an outlet for
Centerpoint and for holosync audio technology.
Moving Sound is Christoffer de Graal's
great website about his special field of using music and movement to
celebrate creativity and enhance communication. He conducts training
courses, coaching, retreats, explorations for creative personal,
professional and organisational development support for individuals and
small teams. A trained musician, he received a Churchill Fellowship
Award to research the transformational power of music around the world.
Silvia Hartmann's Project Sanctuary is an excellent resource
for any explorer of the human mind, run by one of the savviest people
around. Be sure to check into "the Gift." It is but one among several
projects, including the bestseller on EFT, under her Starfields
organization — "Inspiration, Information and Real Magic with Silvia
Hartmann." A wealth of material beautifully presented. Spend some time
there.
One of the great problems common among
exceptionally gifted people is the feeling of aloneness and
separateness. In our own two books of classroom methods for teaching
the gifted, we've observed that the basic human nutrition is
appropriate feedback, which the gifted tend to be by far the most
deprived of. The Rocamora
School has a center for addressing some of this separation
issue, along with transformational resources and programs for adult
awareness training.
SchoolWorld
is a major world resource for teachers which has tens of thousands of
schools and school systems participating. At first several school
boards tried to block this perceived threat to their power, then ended
up joining. Amazing the resources you will find there! Included is much
material from Project Renaissance, courtesy of the Innovation Center in
Dayton, Ohio, which is one of the first sectors you should look at on
this site.
There is a website now, Socratic Learning
that provides online tutoring, standards-based Socratic learning, and
narrative-oriented academic camps. To get in, you'll need to register
for username and password and then log in. One week free trial might be
worth checking out.
Starfall is a charming site for kids from
kindergarten to second grade to learn to read through self-teaching.
Founded by Steve Schutz and his wife, poet Susan Polis, who also
founded the popular on-line greeting card company, Blue Mountain. The Polis-Schutz
family is passionate about making the world a better place. The free
online phonics program was put together by a talented team of artists,
teachers, and computer animators. There are many fun stories in
ascending levels, with clever graphics to connect the visual letters
with their spoken sounds. They also have special materials for teachers
and parents.
Super Intelligence is a impassioned
collection of programs ranging from John Dewey to Alfred Korzybsky to
Project Renaissance, seeking on a very broad basis to marshall
resources and techniques and perspectives around the world for human
uplift. The site is under construction. The guiding spirit is Eric Sommer.
Systems Thinking Press has a very large and
comprehensive site dedicated to all aspects of Systems Thinking. Their
goal is to further the unity of science for all living systems on
earth. Editor and publisher is Stephen G. Haines. His guidance focuses
on the synergy between chaos theory, complexity theory, system
dynamics, systems thinking, strategic planning, critical thinking,
problem solving, leadership games, self-organizing systems, systems
change, and over 30 other scientific disciplines moving towards Systems
Thinking. You'll find a wealth of world-wide resources and many other
valuable features on their site.
The more fundamental a truth, or the principle describing a key part of
reality, the more likely it is to show up in different "maps" of that
reality — and in different cultures' maps. Bhadraiah Mallampalli's 25
years of dedicated work on the Vedas appears to be (1) responsible; (2)
self-consistent; and (3) filled with intriguing concepts deserving of
further study. Learning what we can may or may not suffice to keep us
from destroying our civilization. In the meantime, see what you can
usefully find at the Vedic Psychophysics website.
Our Gravel Gulch
exhibit in CPS Techniques was only one take on the original
Osborn-Parnes procedure which launched the world-wide creativity
revolution in the 1950s. There have been many others, some of which
also break some new ground. Win has known Paul Rousseau for many years
and knows him to be a good man and a key leader in the creativity
movement. You can find Paul's Virtual Creative Assistants (VCA) at his Virtual
Creativity website.
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