tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34815273994700579082024-03-13T11:44:43.970-04:00The Healing Artist Studio ProjectValerie Mich'El Oliver (The Pursuit Studio) explores the art and architecture of creativity, healing and storytelling in imaginative, innovative and award-winning ways. The Healing Artist Studio is one project. Tisch School of the Arts (New York University) and The Mystery School (Sacred Center for the Healing Arts) graduate. | Play, observe, imagine, innovate, create, heal, and love this life. Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-79519204012057810532020-12-10T21:50:00.000-05:002020-12-10T22:22:22.342-05:00GRATEFUL TO BE OF SERVICE: HEALING AND CHANGING LIVES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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--<b> <a href="http://www.sacredcenter.net/theacademy.html" target="_blank">Eleanora Amendolara, Creator of CHILL (Chumpi Illumination); Owner, Teacher, Healer at Sacred Center for the Healing Arts: The Mystery School</a></b></div>
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"I would like to thank Valerie Michele for helping me and starting my healing process. My husband recently booked several sessions for me with her after witnessing me falling further and further into a depression. It turned out to be the best gift he has ever given me . . . <a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2010/12/words-i-receive-testimonials.html?showComment=1314216769980#c8844220187767332289">(READ FULL COMMENT)</a><br />
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"Inspiring . . . Motivational . . . Unbelievable . . . Wonderful . . . Life-transforming . . . Healing . . . Multidimensional . . . Open . . . Safe . . . Thought-provoking . . . Fun!" <br />
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"<span id="comment-6a00e54ee8421a883301543324b050970c-content">As a Reiki practitioner and teacher, I can attest that Val Oliver is a compassionate healer with integrity and expertise. Don't miss an opportunity to take advantage of her healing services. Blessings and positive energy to you all!"</span><br />
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"Just completed my CHILL session and I was blown away. Resolved and understood something that has been a source of confusion and a block to completing my book. Val assisted in the connecting with one of my guides. He had a special message for me and was a source of comfort which circled back to the source of my initial confusion. All of this in 30 minutes or so." <a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2010/12/words-i-receive-testimonials.html">(READ FULL COMMENT)</a><br />
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"I have found our sessions to be very worthwhile, and am looking forward to the next phone call. I endorse, from experience, Valerie Michele as a talented and caring Healing Artist for those that want a deeper exploration."<br />
<b>-- <a href="http://stacieflint.com/" target="_blank">Stacie Flint, Visual Artist</a></b><br />
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"Thanks Val. Your particular INSIGHT, as always, is ON POINT."<br />
-- <a href="http://www.myspace.com/christopherdeansullivan"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Christopher Dean Sullivan, The Artisan Bassist (Musician)</span></a><br />
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"You are so humble Val. When I looked at your blog, I was like WOW! This Sister is sharing the ancient spiritual life sciences in a beautiful way . . . You are helping to shift the shape of things from negative to positive energized vibrations and that is what LOVE and HEALING is ALL about."<br />
--<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Dwayne Sonni Nixon El (Singer-Songwriter, Musician, Actor, Poet, International Businessman)</span><br />
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"You are a very warm and authentic person--it is so refreshing. I feel inspired by your optimism, enthusiasm, and how driven you are to actualize dreams."<br />
-- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Heather Gillman (Psychologist)</span><br />
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"Val, you just made me cry as I was lamenting to my girl that I have been searching for just one person to <i>get</i> me. Gracious thanks, from my heart of hearts."<br />
<b>-- PatriCia Malia, Sound Healer, Hanta Yo Sound Healing</b><br />
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"You are a gifted soul who possesses an incredible zest and talent for living. Even the simplest of events--waiting on line to pay a cable bill, a passing conversation on the street--become joyful happenings with you! Your beautiful smile and focused gaze make me know that you're really hearing me, listening to me, appreciating me. I feel compelled to just be myself, honestly, with you."<br />
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"Hey Val, I wanted to let you know that I was still feeling very congested yesterday, as if I still had the cold. I was telling my friends at work yesterday that I was going to finally break down and go to doctor but after your session last night, I felt much better, and today I am feeling a big difference. I think it's what I needed to finally get this nasty congestion and negative feeling out of my body! Thank you!"</div>
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Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-32940958534685725822020-12-07T06:50:00.001-05:002022-06-22T10:34:58.773-04:00Angel-Guided Star Sigils (Introduction)<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Regarding the death of Stephen Hawking--</span></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Theoretical Physicist, Writer, Influencer</span></b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br />(January 8, 1942 - March 14 2018)<b>...</b></span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">"A star just went out in the cosmos. We have lost an amazing human being."</span></b></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>-- Lawrence Krauss, Theoretical Physicist & Cosmologist</i></span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Ever wonder when looking up at the
stars shining so bright if you have stars among them? Do you believe that
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that the star nation includes our own personal constellations, our cosmic story frequencies that exist in star realms beyond our Milky Way galaxy.<b> </b></span> </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">As Above, So Below Stargates</span></b></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">D</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">eepen your investment in aligning, living in harmony and balance with </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">your <span style="font-size: small;">name, <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">business, or project as </span>star and earth cosmic energies and entities<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">A star <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ae0db59d-440c-46c4-8a53-6c1cf1264785" id="3dfb2f09-f94e-49b6-af47-f7554d7f7274"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f670d2a5-9cb5-497c-a537-2986177d86b0" id="b9986f94-a80e-4046-ad7f-5c36d69a6bb1"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b0308511-d897-48e8-82ac-8785a1ff8a03" id="562ca94e-f191-427c-8f2b-4ad0fd23ca10">sigil</gs></gs></gs> is </span>a <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">s<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">acred geometry frequency</span></span> "constellation warehouse" that has multidimensional information: <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/archetypes.html" target="_blank">archetypes</a>, oracle guidance, angel numbers, and universal consciousness keys--</span></span></span></span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">STARGATES</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> to your most loving reality and potential<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>The ancients believed that astronomical phenomena were connected to terrestrial events. </b><i><br />~<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_Bethlehem" target="_blank">F<span style="font-size: small;">rom "S<span style="font-size: small;">tar of Be<span style="font-size: small;">t<span style="font-size: small;">hlehe<span style="font-size: small;">m</span>, Wikipedia</span></span></span></span></a></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">My intention is to</span> provide personal session time <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">to you, a person who is attracted to and desires <b><span style="color: #38761d;">an intimate and active relationship with your personal star cosmology that is different from astrology</span></b></span>, and
to spend additional amounts of time off-session performing calculations to channel, create and interpret them for you to facilitate aligning earth human forms with star cosmic ones. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Our personal time together will <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">take</span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">one</span><b><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span></b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">two</span> hours
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">What is a Sigil?</span> </b><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="087c96fb-a2bc-4f9d-9226-cf342c2c5dd4" id="48f2c4c7-168c-4d1b-94a8-653d89e05989"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1f197e02-fb4e-440f-8b12-9b6ff90dea83" id="97b16a22-fed2-47ee-a161-4c16fda73486"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="38c54cf6-39d5-4f35-ab46-efc6c2369c4d" id="74833714-66c1-4fcc-bb17-d05698255ad7">Sigils</gs></gs></gs> <span style="font-size: small;">are</span> considered the visual symbols of angels and other
entities, and <span style="font-size: small;">are</span> <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/archetypes.html" target="_blank">archetypes</a>, conduits <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="087c96fb-a2bc-4f9d-9226-cf342c2c5dd4" id="71d47f46-c4ab-44fd-a444-c8f25750c590"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1f197e02-fb4e-440f-8b12-9b6ff90dea83" id="db83487d-df99-43e6-8b2e-360166862857"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="38c54cf6-39d5-4f35-ab46-efc6c2369c4d" id="0cf81a61-9dc8-449c-9a15-656c9b4598c9">for</gs></gs></gs> great <b>creative</b><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>energy</b></span><b>.</b> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I channel and create <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">them</span> using </span>a calculation, a formula.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">What is Intuitive Intelligence?</span> </b></span></span></span></b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Intu<span style="font-size: small;">itiv<span style="font-size: small;">e <span style="font-size: small;">i</span>ntelligence is a <span style="font-size: small;">deep, instantaneous, </span>inner feeling or inner k<span style="font-size: small;">nowing<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">;</span> a form of divine communication <span style="font-size: small;">f<span style="font-size: small;">rom<span style="font-size: small;"> one's highest<span style="font-size: small;"> consciousness, frequency <span style="font-size: small;">or S<span style="font-size: small;">elf. It's been de<span style="font-size: small;">scribed as a gut feeling <span style="font-size: small;">that</span> may be associa<span style="font-size: small;">ted with <span style="font-size: small;">sounds or feelings in the body that confir<span style="font-size: small;">m<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">it<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">What is Muscle Testing?</span> </b>Muscle testing is
another way to describe Health Kinesiology™, which is a bio-energetics
methodology that uses the body’s muscular system to find out information by
asking questions to help make dramatic life changes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>What is CHILL™<span style="font-size: small;"> - </span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Chumpi Illumination</b></span></span></span>?</span> </b>CHILL™<span style="font-size: small;"> - Chumpi Illumination</span> is an innovative art and science practice in which sacred
stones that embody 12 Keys of Universal Consciousness and Universal Matrix
Architecture are used in healing. CHILL™ was created by <b>Eleanora Amendolara of Sacred Center for the Healing Arts</b> and is taught at <a href="http://www.sacredcenter.net/theacademy.html">The Mystery School</a> in New
York State.</span></span></div>
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<span class="null"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #38761d;"><b>Archetype Energy:</b> The Gold Detector, The Camel, The Earth Worm, <b>The Star Sharer</b>. <b><a href="https://andarawakening.com/pages/how-to-work-with-your-andara-crystals" target="_blank">Monatomic Andara Crystal Energy</a>:</b> Aqua Blue Angel Frequency. <b>Rune Oracle Energy:</b> Isa, Nauthiz, Gebo, and reversed Ansuz. <b>Angel Number Energy:</b> 99. <b>Universal Consciousness Energy</b>: Oneness is the Key to Love Awakening</span></span></span></div>
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<b>I am truly humbled and grateful for the CHILL healing experienced by the women who came to see me at the Fairy Fair. </b>It was re-scheduled from Saturday, May 19, 2018 to the rain date on Saturday, June 2, 2018. There wasn't a drop of rain on June 2nd, despite what was predicted in the weather reports!<br />
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<b>By using CHILL (<a href="https://sacredcenter.net/chumpi-illumination/" target="_blank">Chumpi Illumination</a>), God's power through the Holy Spirit, and the love of Ascended Master Jesus,</b> my clients quickly and easily gave me access to what was most pressing and needed to be healed; so, I could see each woman's core truth in visions, and facilitate the solutions--manifesting blessings in their lives via freedom from past and/or current conflict or trauma. As one of my nieces is fond of saying: Hooray!<br />
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This is the area where you can post feedback & testimonials for healing artist personal or group sessions. I appreciate you sharing your experiences and providing this link to friends, family and colleagues who may be interested. Thank you so very much!Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-19805376276602630622018-04-03T09:11:00.000-04:002018-04-04T19:39:26.630-04:00How Chumpi Stones Are Made and How They Impact The Healing Artist Studio Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am grateful to have two different sets of <b>Chumpi stones</b> that I am trained to use as a certified CHILL practitioner. Also, I use them in additional ways (in addition to CHILL). <a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2015/12/angel-guided-star-sigils-introduction.html" target="_blank">Through angel guidance, I discovered them as keys to open to an understanding that we have a personal star cosmology different from astrology. (Click this sentence to discover more.)</a><br />
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is very similar to being born to become a pipe carrier in the Native
American (and new) traditions as the pipe (Chanupa) and sacred smoke are
alive with wisdom and energy through the earth elements made to
create it. The <b>Chumpi stones</b> are "carried" in a similar way for
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I am curious about how these forms I carry with deep honor, responsibility
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relationships and career/work, and visions and dreams going forward. I am
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love of my Creator. Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-33644615016168420352017-08-09T10:48:00.001-04:002017-08-09T10:48:41.699-04:00New Content On Creator's Corner: Creativity & Storytelling Muse (August 9, 2107)<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<strong></strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Tom Comerford</strong>. <strong>I was in shock, depressed, and lost after the death of my mother</strong>. Tom was a District Manager for the State of New Jersey's Division of Youth & Family Services. He hired me to provide payments to all the foster care parents in the huge district. He helped me get back on my feet mentally, emotionally, and financially; and that job led to meeting my best friend who has been in my life for 37 years. <a href="http://wp.me/p8OUeh-6k" target="_blank">Continue reading . . .</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/1-top-content-creators-corner-best-story-content-grounded-in-our-past-current-life/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Access more content about this best practice of using past and current life experiences as storytelling content</a> to attract and engage your audience, readers, clients, and customers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dare to shine, be generous, and love this life.<br />
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<b><i>CREATOR'S CORNER</i> is dedicated to sharing ideas that come to mind after <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">reading and selecting articles for <i>The Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</i></a> </b><b><b>(as the editor/curator) </b>that may be useful in a professional or personal capacity. </b>Interest
in creativity and storytelling as content for usage in arts &
entertainment, media communications, marketing and advertising, and as lifestyle choices for businesses, projects and
services (groups that have a way of life that may or may not be included
in their brand identity), can be relevant to anyone anywhere in the
world covering a variety of professions. </span>Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-24020731306497175382017-05-05T20:01:00.000-04:002017-05-12T09:27:06.525-04:00Rave Reviews (Thanks Everyone!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">These reviews cover film & television professionals with whom I have worked as an originator, creator, developer and producer of stories; live, streaming and podcast interviews conducted on my Blog Talk Radio channel; interviews printed in the arts section of a newspaper serving Orange County, NY, and by website design clients. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"I have worked with Val on two projects now, and each time I have been blown away by Val's connection with and dedication to the material. She was an integral part of the development of each project and brings her heart and soul into the creation of any project she works on. This has made her an absolute joy to work with, and a person <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f64bec0a-d736-422a-bfc4-1e400130436a" id="20c5862e-9ab3-4469-b00e-b4d630f6181e"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="41443c79-8954-4cf2-a84b-b2826a650232" id="9f4fd3bb-4dba-4c87-861c-c161ef55292b">whose</gs></gs> friendship, vision and creativity I cherish. I highly recommend Val as a solo contractor, team member and content creator, and would work with her again in a heartbeat!"</span></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-- Sameera Steward, Producer, Constellations Entertainment</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;">Our team was lucky to find Val a few months ago and she has been a wonderful asset ever since. She is driven and optimistic, and her personality has helped to fuel the rest of our crew. She has also been instrumental in finding us some key players who have been essential in moving our projects forward. I would recommend Val to anyone in need of a dedicated team player or a truly amazing friend. Thanks again, Val, for all your hard work!"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">"Thank you!!! I had a great time being on your show!!!</span><span style="font-size: small;"> -- <b><a class="" href="http://www.myspace.com/plantwk" target="_blank">Georgie Porgie</a>, A Billboard Magazine Top 10 Dance/Club Artist of the Decade</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"You have been doing an amazing job with your interviews/shows. I'm so impressed with what you've done."<br />
-- <b><a class="" href="http://www.imradio.com/index.php" target="_blank">Paddy Noonan, Founding Partner & Musician, IMRadio</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Wow!" Val. The radio show was so amazing! Thanks so much!<br />
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<b>I AWAKENED TO THIS SONG, "HEAL MY HEART", ONE MORNING WHILE PRAYING, MEDITATING AND CONTEMPLATING</b>. I was working on a vision, a marketing plan for a client, and we planned to meet the next evening to review it. Even though I was secure in my sense of the direction in which to guide her based on the time we'd shared and the review of her current website, I was further guided to trust and share with her this song the Creator placed in my consciousness to enhance the <b>golden vision </b>and plan even more.<br />
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<b>RECENTLY, I RECEIVED A GOLDEN VISION </b>from The Creator/God/Goddess/Source/Great Spirit/Beyond Love that I can't ignore.<b> </b>Interested in discovering more about this vision?<br />
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<b>CONNECT WITH VISION CONTENT </b><b>EXCERPTS </b>provided below (via tweets you can copy and share) by clicking on the tinyurl.com links at the end of each tweet.<br />
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<li><b>My Story is Different Than the One I Believed</b> | Spiritual #Excellence #Sanctuary | #Motivation <a href="https://tinyurl.com/hf9ko4m">https://tinyurl.com/hf9ko4m</a></li>
<li><b>#Storyhacking/#Growthhacking My Own Life</b> | #Spiritual #Excellence #Sanctuary | #creativity #entrepreneur <a href="https://tinyurl.com/jvauy4g">https://tinyurl.com/jvauy4g</a></li>
<li><b>Members Are Ready 2 Hack Their Own Stories.</b> #Spiritual #Excellence #Sanctuary | Personal #Growthhacking <a href="https://tinyurl.com/jasymzd">https://tinyurl.com/jasymzd</a></li>
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<b>ONCE AGAIN, I FIND MYSELF RETURNING TO "HEAL MY HEART" TO EMBRACE THE MANTRA LYRICS AND MUSIC.</b> Thanks to <a href="https://www.beatport.com/artist/kerri-chandler/1984" target="_blank"><b>Kerry Chandler</b></a> (The Maestro of <b>House</b>), <b><a href="https://www.beatport.com/artist/quentin-harris/10245" target="_blank">Quentin Harris</a></b> (Remix), and <a href="https://www.beatport.com/artist/treasa-diva-fennie/333348" target="_blank"><b>Treasa</b><b></b><b> Fennie</b></a> (featured vocalist<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1761c1c9-e745-4b9b-b53f-8973e1571a63" id="deb1d9df-3c41-409c-bb6e-da1f116d40d2"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ec515075-28fe-45ec-a3d8-b39a3105cca8" id="e372a2cc-51ef-4c1a-a98b-34b4d0792732"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="47528686-d430-4403-80b5-cd0830ab3c7c" id="0fe40574-1e94-4557-8bba-f4f4cf6ed8bd"> )</gs></gs></gs> for the message: to live, love and trust again. Kerry is living in them through his music.<br />
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Here are the main lyrics to <b>"Heal My Heart"</b> -- Kerry Chandler, Quentin Harris and Treasa Fennie. <br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Wake up in the morning just to pray.</span></b></div>
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I give thanks to see another day.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">No matter how hard I try,</span></b></div>
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To leave the past behind,</div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Only time will heal the pain,</span></b></div>
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Please hear me when I'm praising your name. </div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">I used to see the world through innocent eyes,</span></b></div>
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But loving you has made me realize,</div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">There's a greater love, a greater peace, in my life.</span></b></div>
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There's a better place on the way to find.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Heal my heart, ease my pain, give me the strength to love again.</span></b></div>
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Heal my heart, ease my pain, give me the hope to trust again.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Heal my heart, ease my pain, give me the strength to love again.</span></b></div>
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Heal my heart, ease my pain, give me the strength to live, to love, to trust again.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">MANIFEST BLESSINGS VIA FREEDOM FROM PAST TRAUMA</span></b><br />
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Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-4950654115209529732017-02-22T09:17:00.000-05:002017-06-10T08:55:11.968-04:00Creator's Corner: How to Work (and Play) Well With "The Others" to Succeed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>I ATTENDED A GRADUATE SCHOOL WHERE ARTS & BUSINESS STUDENTS WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER</b>--on purpose--to propose, create and apply communications technology solutions as a team to problems. As graduate students of the <b>Interactive Telecommunications Program</b> <b>(ITP)</b>, <span style="color: #7f6000;"><b>we were encouraged to face our distrust of "the others'" approaches to problem-solving (creative arts vs. <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f4ac5fe1-3b1b-4596-8946-a68fe2d7fade" id="0053d672-bab8-41fb-97af-a3a6f191893c">business</gs>)</b></span> and <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f4ac5fe1-3b1b-4596-8946-a68fe2d7fade" id="d790fc41-11a6-48d7-a3aa-4de895c503da">collaborate</gs> in playful and experimental ways to meet the needs of individuals, groups; local, national, and global communities--artistic, nonprofit and commercial--who we were learning to serve as a workforce. Otherwise, we could not succeed in our studies, projects, or current and future employment. <br />
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<b><i>How Can I Trust You? </i></b></h3>
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<b>WE HAD TO FIND WAYS TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND, TRUST, AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER</b> (even if one's primary incentive might only be to get a good grade). <span style="color: #7f6000;"><b>Sometimes trusting simply meant investing in the belief that we would do whatever we could to help each other succeed for the sake of that project.</b> </span>Those who couldn't or wouldn't commit, who gave up, failed: they either left the program or flunked out. For those of us who did commit, paths always eventually opened, and some of those solutions we accomplished together were simply astounding. Those collaborations and solutions led to our Information Age and what's coming beyond it. <br />
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NOTE: The <b>Interactive <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5f406a34-148c-47d1-99b0-03d3e44a16c5" id="405cd2c0-8542-4b0b-ba39-bfe1a121c2e9">Telecommunications Masters</gs> Program</b> <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5f406a34-148c-47d1-99b0-03d3e44a16c5" id="be6c38dd-b320-4493-92d2-6aee59c2ba14">in</gs> Tisch School of the Arts at New York University is going strong. <a href="https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp/itp-courses" target="_blank">Check out some of the pioneering and innovative courses</a>. <br />
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<b>I READ SOME LITERATURE TODAY TO HELP INSPIRE AND MOTIVATE ME NOT TO GIVE UP</b> in areas that I want and need to change in my life (personal and professional). I get tired and discouraged at times. <span style="color: #7f6000;"><b>I can't afford <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oveWN-9b7Yk" target="_blank">"keeping up appearances" (like Hyacinth, the character in the British BBC program)</a> because I've learned the hard way</b></span> that doing so is incredibly stressful and hurts my <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="89152f12-4ac6-4b95-8e41-2951bd103437" id="0d10134b-4f73-4e8a-b73b-70479adfda46">health</gs>. One quote I read is from an article (<i>AKIRA KUROSAWA: The Note Taker</i>) included in the <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919?read=http%3A%2F%2Fzenpencils.com%2Fcomic%2Fkurosawa%2F" target="_blank"><i>Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</i>, Sunday, February 12, 2017 edition is just the right medicine</a>:<br />
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"Kurosawa was determined to become a better screenwriter and set about writing one page a day, despite how busy he was as an AD, 'There was nothing I could do about the nights I had to work till dawn, but when I had time to sleep, even after crawling into bed I would turn out two or three pages.' <b><span style="color: #7f6000;">Writing didn’t come easy, but over time the daily struggle became a habit and Kurosawa found that like most creative endeavors, just showing up was the key.</span> '</b>At some point in the writing of every script I feel like giving the whole thing up. From my many experiences of writing <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3cf6fffb-232a-4f67-9969-35d6ce142822" id="54ea61c8-171c-4f8a-a5f4-b1abb91f3362">screenplays however</gs>, I have learned something: If I hold fast in the face of this blankness and despair, adopting the tactic of Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect, who glared at the wall that stood in his way until his legs became useless, a path will open up.'"</blockquote>
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<b>SOMETIMES I THINK THAT WE HUMANS SUFFER FROM CHRONIC FORGETFULNESS</b>: we work hard on something, complete it, and then lose our confidence in what we've learned and know: we start from the beginning again--over and over--in uncertainty (a creative-specific conflict forgetting like in the film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/" target="_blank"><i>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind--</i>though they choose to forget!</a>). We stick to our endeavors, come through again, and hope we will remember in the future.<br />
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<b>THE <i>HEALING ARTIST STUDIO PROJECT</i> BLOG, THE <i>CREATIVITY & STORYTELLING 'ZINE</i></b>, and all the writing, content curating, posting and tweeting I do is my way of remembering, of continuing the open-mindedness, trust, and collaboration I learned as a high school student at <a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2016/05/creators-corner-mining-best-story.html" target="_blank"><b>The Team School</b></a>, and as a graduate student at ITP.<br />
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<b>WE ARE NOT IN A PHYSICAL CLASS TOGETHER, AND MAY NEVER MEET</b>, but I choose to believe that I am investing in our creative and business problem-solving success to benefit our world through the practical and miraculous solution we are every day.<br />
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<b>MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and storytelling support now (and in the future) <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">by exploring the Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</a></b>, and previous <i>Creator's Corner</i> columns: <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/lies-storytelling-strange-bedfellows-in-shades-of-gray/">Lies & Storytelling: Strange Bedfellows in Shades of Gray; </a><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-has-empathy-intimacy-its-important-to-engage/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important to Engage the Senses)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/get-up-to-speed-on-quality-do-it-yourself-storytelling-on-a-low-budget/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get Up To Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling: On a Low Budget</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-is-copied-stolen-content-or-the-lighter-shade-of-led-zeppellin/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-joy-is-in-the-story-journey-or-mission-impossible/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Joy is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/1-top-content-creators-corner-best-story-content-grounded-in-our-past-current-life/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conflict Has Creative Value, Learn How To Use It</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/card-decks-and-the-mystic-or-visionary-persona/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Card Decks & the Mystic or Visionary Persona</a></i>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/here-comes-play-doh/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Here Comes Play-Doh</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-visual-storytelling-content-one-of-top-four-creative-trends/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sacred Geometry–Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016</a></i>. <br />
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Dare to shine, be generous, and love this life.<br />
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in creativity and storytelling as content for usage in arts &
entertainment, media communications, marketing and advertising, and as lifestyle choices for businesses, projects and
services (groups that have a way of life that may or may not be included
in their brand identity), can be relevant to anyone anywhere in the
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<b>IT'S TIME FOR AN UPDATED ROUND-UP OF <i>CREATOR'S CORNER</i> FOR EASIER ACCESS TO THE CREATIVITY COACHING CONTENT HERE with a brief excerpt and link to each one (March 2016 to December 2016)</b>--in the spirit of "Everything we need for creativity & storytelling success is within our grasp." Of course it may not be <i>everything</i> we need, however; between <b><i>Creator's Corner</i></b> and the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/jnlf6cl" target="_blank"><b><i>Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</i></b></a>, there is a hearty helping.<br />
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<b>I BEGAN WRITING CREATOR'S CORNER IN AN INFLUENCER, COACHING, INSPIRATIONAL CAPACITY</b>
to share original ideas and solutions for you to consider based on my
own thoughts and experiences inspired by the curated content in the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/jnlf6cl" target="_blank"><b><i>Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</i></b></a>.
Due to my work and volunteer schedule, Creator's Corner columns will
not be as plentiful as in the past, but I will be posting new content as
space clears to do so. Cheers! <br />
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<b><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/best-visual-content-storytelling-solutions-via-ae-professionals/" target="_blank">Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals</a> - </b>December 24, 2016<b> |</b><b> Stage32 (One of my favorite websites) invites its members to select 10 films that we would take with us</b> if we knew we were going to be stranded on a desert island.<br />
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<b><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-has-empathy-intimacy-its-important-to-engage/" target="_blank">Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important To Engage the Senses</a>)</b> - July 27, 2016 | <b>I had the responsibility of creating visual content (publications, packaging, and safer sex advertising campaings)</b> to help save the lives of men, women, and children at-risk for HIV/AIDS during the fours years that I worked at <a href="http://www.gmhc.org/" target="_blank"><b>Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.</b></a> in
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<a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/get-up-to-speed-on-quality-do-it-yourself-storytelling-on-a-low-budget/" target="_blank"><b>Get Up to Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling (On a Low Budget)</b></a> - June 25, 2016 | <b>In our world in which content is king/queen and we must use vital creativity and storytelling mojo, </b>and
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<a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-is-copied-stolen-content-or-the-lighter-shade-of-led-zeppellin/" target="_blank"><b>Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)</b></a> - June 5, 2016 | <b>Breakout from traditional approaches and models despite potential flack that you might receive</b> from doubters or critics who aren't as courageous, and/or fear conflict or change.<br />
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<a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" target="_blank"><b>Conflict Has Creative Value. Learn How To Use It.</b></a> - April 19, 2016 | <b>Creative breakthroughs often occur as the result of conflict in many aspects of the human experience. </b>I feel like screaming again because conflict and contrast commands attention. They SHOUT and we. . .<br />
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<a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/here-comes-play-doh/" target="_blank"><b>Here Comes Play-Doh</b></a> - April 6, 2016 | <b>Certainly it's easy to see that <a href="http://playdoh.hasbro.com/en-us" target="_blank">Play-Doh</a>
can be used as content to attract and communicate with children in your
particular business, project or service, but what about with adults? </b>Many of us are familiar with Play-Doh because . . .<br />
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considered to be the marks of angels</b>, deities, and other powerful
entities; they are archetype conduits that merge science, creativity and
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<a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/card-decks-and-the-mystic-or-visionary-persona/" target="_blank"><b>Card Decks and The Mystic or Visionary Persona</b></a> - March 25, 2016 | <b> Create a card deck as visual content to inform, educate, inspire, attract, promote, </b><b>aesthetic (</b><b><b>purely as art for arts sake </b>)</b>, or for fun and play to help achieve your goal or purpose.<br />
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<b>Somewhere along my life's journey, I received a strong message that
stuck in my gut for a very long time: "Do not discuss religion or
politics in mixed company (or in any social or business settings)
because you are asking for trouble."</b> I was taught that discussing
these topics will create great conflict that will destroy friendships
and potentially make me a persona non grata in professional circles that
can lead to isolation, and perhaps even dismissal (though that reason
would never be cited as the true reason).<br />
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<b>Yes, I have seen the damage in other people's lives; but not in my own.</b> <b>Sure,
conversations have become heated, but I always took the approach that
we can agree to disagree because--well, there are so many other things
that I often like about people with whom I have a difference of belief
or opinion. </b>I learned to value the whole person, and not divorce
myself from relationships because of a strong contrast. My oldest friend
is a Republican (and always has been). Another dear friend is an
atheist. <br />
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<b>Column Inspiration:</b><br />
<b> </b> <b><a href="http://www.vocativ.com/299168/americans-pray-think-heaven-is-real/" target="_blank">Americans Skeptical Of God But Believe Heaven Is Real, Somehow (vocativ.com)</a></b></td></tr>
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Perhaps, our relationships would be rather dull and bland without the challenges.<br />
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<b><u><span style="color: #7f6000;">Conflict and Contrast Are Creative <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6997d06d-b0f6-45ff-ae23-5934901b8dd4" id="d1e7a388-887a-46bf-8668-28633c75c160">Goldmines</gs></span> </u></b><br />
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<b>As a creative professional and healing artist, I was taught to value conflict and contrast as vital creative tools:</b> <b>contrast in <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c484498d-1137-4021-864d-0fef191baf65" id="b9cf67ee-ba48-4ab9-8c99-19ed96306aa5">colors, contrast in</gs> textures, contrast in lighting, contrast in perspective, contrast in camera angles, contrast in point-of-view, and contrast in characters to create the conflicts necessary for telling an engaging story. </b>Conflict and contrast are CREATIVE tools and principles. <br />
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<b>Column Inspiration</b>:<br />
<b><a href="http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1387329/mclaren-gsk-getty-images-top-designers-next-decades-visual-trends" target="_blank">Top Designers On The Next Decade's Visual Trends (marketingmagazine.co.uk)</a></b></td></tr>
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<b>Actually, <i>spirituality and mindfulness is trending</i> (and spiritual practices include religions), and it's viewed as a creative trend in this and the next decade</b> <b>(<a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2016/03/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-symbols.html" target="_blank">see <i>Creator's Corner</i> on Sacred Geometry</a>)</b>; yet, the content in the <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e09c44de-c90f-4745-affd-ea1a08b0fd15" id="a6c2c826-f050-40f2-a39e-38d5e367ed89">articles cited that</gs> inspired this <i>Creator's Corner</i> are examples of even more contrast and contradiction. One includes <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="441ea190-baa9-4457-b95e-49e2bfb135f5" id="7f2ee6d7-1d18-4faf-a8df-aeb376883457">research citing</gs> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/27/millennials-less-religious_n_7452998.html" target="_blank">that Millennials are disengaging from religion <i>and</i> spirituality</a>. Another cites that Americans do not believe in God, but somehow believe that Heaven is real. The third article might seem like an oxymoron: it explores the concept and practice of <i>Imaginative Conservatism</i>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The story of good and evil, of strength and weakness, of love and hate, of beauty and ugliness<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9f0ee824-9bcc-49fe-9986-736fec0ab276" id="a571b5f3-b569-45d3-b47f-fb88c0a79448"> .</gs> . . <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c104a494-c069-4aed-b8f2-1930a4aed8af" id="d9d31ff0-9191-4e9a-a012-72ac5c875695">neither</gs> can exist without the other<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c104a494-c069-4aed-b8f2-1930a4aed8af" id="ec4f2ad5-cfcb-47e5-aba8-e51cbb5307a1"> .</gs> . . <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="66ed2295-3b0e-4fd6-a8d6-8e5da7ab7803" id="f3ceecaf-e723-4d1f-8646-b9d2a701e634">out</gs> of their groupings creativeness is born.</i> --<b>John Steinbeck</b></span> <br />
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<b>Creative breakthroughs often occur as the result of conflict in many aspects of the human experience. </b>I feel like screaming again because conflict and contrast commands attention. They SHOUT and we all pay attention. The content then engages us for short or long periods of time depending on our interests, desires, emotions, and needs.<br />
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<b>1) Become students of conflict and contrast from a creative arts perspective</b> <b>(<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dustin-timbrook/want-your-children-future-art-school_b_9131836.html" target="_blank">Although this article is geared toward children becoming arts students, we adults can become students again for our own growth and sustainability now and in the future</a>).</b> Learn as much as we can about the use and value of conflict and contrast. Watching films and television with an eye for identifying their use in these mediums (and their success or failure from which we can learn lessons) can only help to shake off our antiquated negative attachments to them. Immersing ourselves in them helps to shape-shift our relationship from enemies to allies.<br />
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<b>2)</b> <b>Share what we discover as part of our content offerings, or use these new allies in content strategy, content marketing, marketing strategy, <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a9d024ab-c41a-4d09-b1ac-2aa29f4cedb5" id="d6748ced-24ad-415d-8ac5-cb798274b478">songwriting</gs>, storytelling, or even to become more comfortable in our own psyches</b> and skins with their value to attract, reach, impact and inspire others as creative professionals, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, content <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a9d024ab-c41a-4d09-b1ac-2aa29f4cedb5" id="0b794bb1-12ac-4ef7-b832-a9faaace2422">curators</gs>, coaches, mentors, etc. <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="374f8688-2bcd-4767-b518-ed5caf9a6eae" id="6ed5d456-a43e-4a5a-b79f-62eee754f530">through</gs> the variety of communications and media we use as calling cards and other enduring connection platforms in our careers or missions. <br />
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<b>3) Read content sources in the April 20, 2016 edition of the <a href="https://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919?edition_id=6ff40cc0-06ae-11e6-8e8c-0cc47a0d15fd#/" target="_blank"><i>Creativity & Spirituality Magazine</i></a> that <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="21791261-b4db-4b1c-a70b-17f369c1259f" id="96c19ba5-6640-47ec-a4a0-c158c212caf4">include</gs> elements of conflict and contrast through color, </b>dance, <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="21791261-b4db-4b1c-a70b-17f369c1259f" id="db5fa1e7-c536-4b06-9fff-d9aef4e08a01">innovation</gs>, and challenging preconceived or learned concepts that inhibit our creativity. Plus read the Creator's Corner column: <b><a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2017/02/creators-corner-how-to-work-and-play.html" target="_blank"><i>How to Work Well and Play with "The Others" To Succeed</i></a></b>.<br />
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<b>MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and storytelling support now (and in the future) <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">by exploring the Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</a></b>, and previous <i>Creator's Corner</i> columns: <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/how-to-work-and-play-well-with-the-others-to-succeed/" target="_blank">How To Work (And Play) Well With "The Others" To Succeed</a></i>; <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/best-visual-content-storytelling-solutions-via-ae-professionals/" target="_blank"><i>Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals</i></a>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/lies-storytelling-strange-bedfellows-in-shades-of-gray/">Lies & Storytelling: Strange Bedfellows in Shades of Gray; </a><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-has-empathy-intimacy-its-important-to-engage/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important to Engage the Senses)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/get-up-to-speed-on-quality-do-it-yourself-storytelling-on-a-low-budget/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get Up To Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling: On a Low Budget</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-is-copied-stolen-content-or-the-lighter-shade-of-led-zeppellin/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-joy-is-in-the-story-journey-or-mission-impossible/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Joy is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/1-top-content-creators-corner-best-story-content-grounded-in-our-past-current-life/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conflict Has Creative Value, Learn How To Use It</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/card-decks-and-the-mystic-or-visionary-persona/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Card Decks & the Mystic or Visionary Persona</a></i>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/here-comes-play-doh/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Here Comes Play-Doh</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-visual-storytelling-content-one-of-top-four-creative-trends/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sacred Geometry–Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016</a></i>.<br />
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Dare to shine, be generous, and love this life.<br />
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Valerie<br />
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in creativity and spirituality as content, for usage in arts &
entertainment, and as lifestyle choices for businesses, projects and
services (groups that have a way of life that may or may not be included
in their brand identity), can be relevant to anyone anywhere in the
world covering a variety of professions.Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-17614087189954553112017-02-01T08:40:00.000-05:002017-06-11T00:35:53.047-04:00TOP CONTENT | Creator's Corner: Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>I ATTENDED ONE OF THE FIRST "alternate" high schools in the United States in New Jersey. The Team School was innovative and unique at that time because the students, teachers, and parents worked together </b>to determine the courses, type of government to address conflicts and issues, and handled the daily operations.<b> </b>The mornings were dedicated to academic courses necessary for college preparation, and the afternoon courses were electives taught by parents who were professionals in their chosen fields.<br />
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<b>LISA SANDERSON'S DAD TAUGHT the creative writing elective, and he drilled into our heads the following regarding story content: </b><i>Write about what you know, what you are experiencing in your own home environments and communities. You will never go wrong with paying attention to what often goes unnoticed, and how these events and relationships affect you and those around you. </i><br />
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<b>Column Inspiration:</b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/boho-sydney-mapping-our-creative-clusters-20160407-go1dbo.html#ixzz47LHsWyV5" target="_blank">"Boho Sydney: Mapping Our Creative Clusters"</a></b></div>
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<b>MR. SANDERSON TAUGHT US TO PAY attention and mine for gold </b>in our own hearts, thoughts (and those of others), and locations grounded in our daily experiences of life. <b> </b><br />
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<b>I CHOSE THESE TWO ARTICLES BECAUSE they remind me that there's so much value in the wealth of content in my past and current communities that I used to take for granted before taking Mr. Sanderson's class. </b>As a storyteller, screenwriter, film producer, healing artist, content specialist (and award-winning writer/blogger, editor, art director, and marketing specialist) I know from past experience and successes that unlike Dorothy in <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>, I don't have to travel to realize that "there's no place like home" for stories and other content.<b> </b><br />
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<b>FOR EXAMPLE, THE FLASH FICTION STORY, <a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2013/06/back-up-truck-short-fiction-written-in.html" target="_blank"><i>Back Up The Truck</i></a>, is inspired by a domestic violence true story</b> from my childhood. Many of us grew up in a war zone of domestic violence that impacted our lives in those moments and beyond.<br />
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<b>ONE DAY MY BEST FRIEND WHO LIVED next door came running to my house to get my help. His "uncle" was beating his mother and we needed to find a way to distract him.</b> First, we tried to physically pull <i>Uncle Charlie</i> off his mom, but he was too strong. So, we decided to distract him by taking as much of his clothing as possible from his room, putting the clothes into a pile in the backyard, and soaking the clothes with liter fluid to create a bonfire. We then ran back into the house and started yelling "Fire!" It worked!<br />
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<a href="https://www.booktrack.com/content/read/5b924f225ae54adaaa8d1be0d9b8cb73" target="_blank"><b>THE SHORT STORY "GIFTS" is also inspired by a true story</b></a> about a highly-anticipated first date gone wrong and what happens as a result. <br />
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<b>Column Inspiration:</b><br />
<b><a href="https://medium.com/@alicebonasio/living-on-the-edge-is-a-creative-place-to-be-a7a478ba9bec#.mubf1nrxl" target="_blank">"Living On The Edge Is A Creative Place To Be"</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><u><b>Creative Strategy: How I See Using This Story</b></u></span><br />
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<b>1) USE THIS FLASH FICTION STORY in an anti-domestic violence campaign </b>focusing on how it impacts children.<b> </b>Create a number of story scenarios to drive home this point to attract and engage audience stakeholders.<b></b> <br />
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<b>2) USE THE STORY IN A RAW, EDGY marketing campaign about childhood friendships that
survive</b> <b>traumatic situations and endure the test of time that leads to happiness in
some form--a product, event, fine arts project, or service they share (an antithesis to the
traditional "Hallmark" variety content).</b> My friend and I had to instantaneously come up with an intelligent, creative and practical solution under intense stress. The physical approach failed, so we quickly moved on to save his mom from that attack. We worked together to accomplish it. We were both about 11-years-old.<b> </b><br />
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<b>THERE'S A LARGER MESSAGE in these stories for us: </b>If two 11-year-old children are capable of these types of creative and practical solutions under this kind of duress, then certainly we can (or can learn how to) access these qualities within ourselves.<b> </b><br />
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<a href="https://pro-labs.imdb.com/name/nm5207581/" target="_blank"><b>THIS STORY IS JUST ONE IN A SLATE</b></a> that are either already written as short stories (some written under strict time constraints as the creative structure model) that are to become short film scripts or expanded into larger formats for film, television and theater.<br />
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<b>MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and spiritual support now (and in the future) <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">by exploring the Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</a></b>, and previous <i>Creator's Corner</i> columns: <span style="color: #444444; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/how-to-work-and-play-well-with-the-others-to-succeed/" target="_blank">How To Work (And Play) Well With "The Others" To Succeed</a></i>; <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/best-visual-content-storytelling-solutions-via-ae-professionals/" target="_blank"><i>Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals</i></a>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/lies-storytelling-strange-bedfellows-in-shades-of-gray/">Lies & Storytelling: Strange Bedfellows in Shades of Gray; </a><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-has-empathy-intimacy-its-important-to-engage/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important to Engage the Senses)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/get-up-to-speed-on-quality-do-it-yourself-storytelling-on-a-low-budget/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get Up To Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling: On a Low Budget</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-is-copied-stolen-content-or-the-lighter-shade-of-led-zeppellin/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-joy-is-in-the-story-journey-or-mission-impossible/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Joy is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/1-top-content-creators-corner-best-story-content-grounded-in-our-past-current-life/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conflict Has Creative Value, Learn How To Use It</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/card-decks-and-the-mystic-or-visionary-persona/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Card Decks & the Mystic or Visionary Persona</a></i>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/here-comes-play-doh/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Here Comes Play-Doh</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-visual-storytelling-content-one-of-top-four-creative-trends/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sacred Geometry–Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016</a></i>.<br />
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Dare to shine, be generous, and love this life.<br />
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Valerie<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Original Publication Date: May 4, 2016</b></span><br />
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in creativity and spirituality as content for usage in arts &
entertainment, media communications, marketing and advertising, and as lifestyle choices for businesses, projects and
services (groups that have a way of life that may or may not be included
in their brand identity), can be relevant to anyone anywhere in the
world covering a variety of professions. Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-80599530581067417842016-12-25T07:35:00.000-05:002017-08-02T08:31:28.948-04:00BlogTracks: Getting To Know Peace<br />
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<b><b>Getting To Know Peace (In Honor of Jesus, The Prince of Peace: Happy Birthday!)</b></b><br />
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<b>“I AM happy to be at peace today.” I wrote these words as a
status post on my Facebook profile page (Val Oliver) on Friday, August
5, 2011. These eight words generated the largest response I have ever received (except for notices about the death of family members).</b><br />
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People who rarely reply to anything I post
either had a comment or simply “LIKED” it. I know how much I value
peace, how much <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yU0JuE1jTk" target="_blank"><b>I am willing to give peace a chance</b> </a>in
the midst of living life during these times of uncertainty about the
future. Evidently, from the amount of responses to my post, people want
to get on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7wEctHyuc0" target="_blank"><b>peace train</b> </a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obAtn6I5rbY" target="_blank"><b>stop living life in wartime as the days accelerate</b></a>. People wonder how I can be at peace and have a smile on my face so often.<br />
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In my personal experience, peace is the balance of opposites merged
together that transform to become something new. It’s like the old
saying that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovdMdFkYwKI" target="_blank"><b>opposites attract</b> </a>and those <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIuAFBRyjj4" target="_blank"><b>two hearts can beat as one</b> </a>
. It’s recognizing that both have a right to exist because it’s the
nature of how this world is created. Everything in life has an opposite
or complimentary energy form: up has down, in has out, hot has cold,
dead has alive, good has evil, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjZwi_PJiio" target="_blank"><b>black has white</b></a>,
love has hate, fear has faith, and Democrat Maria Shriver has
Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger (Well, they did have their share of
marital bliss). The point is that two opposing forces can co-exist in
the same space. Have you ever experienced <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJeoTsUGWA" target="_blank"><b>a beautiful sadness</b></a><b>?</b><br />
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What is it like when two opposing forces merge <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YM6ucZUR8s" target="_blank"><b>to create something new</b></a>?
It’s peaceful. Oddly enough, I experience it the most when other people
and situations around me are off balance. Peace can also be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLIerfXuZ4&ob=av2e" target="_blank"><b>accepting who you are</b></a>
and where you are, and who they are and where they are without judging
any of it. Peace can be in those mind, body, physical and energy spaces
where you accept what you can’t change (others), change what you can
(you), and have the wisdom to know the difference. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmtYs_k8WOE" target="_blank"><b>I put a premium on peace in my life</b></a>, and choose to continue to support myself and others who invest in the same choice.<br />
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<b>Music artists:</b>
Jane Olivor, John Lennon, Juris, Michael Jackson, Norah Jones, Stephen
Bishop, Talking Heads, The Who, U2, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)<br />
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As the disabled child <b>Tiny Tim</b> says in the book, "A Christmas Carol", written by <b>Charles Dickens</b>: "God bless us, Everyone!" Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-80235200940232396872016-12-24T19:31:00.001-05:002017-06-10T08:56:44.927-04:00Creator's Corner: Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://www.stage32.com/" target="_blank">STAGE 32</a> (ONE OF MY FAVORITE WEBSITES) INVITES IT'S MEMBERS TO SELECT 10 FILMS THAT WE WOULD TAKE WITH US IF WE KNEW WE WERE GOING TO BE STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND.</b> I don't know what criteria you would use to select the stories to watch over and over and over again, but the ones I chose impacted me on an emotional, mental or spiritual basis; introduced me to a new world or perspective; or simply fueled my imagination into high gear.<br />
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<b>THE DESERT ISLAND MOVIES.</b> The movies I picked are: <i>The Red Balloon</i> (My Top Pick is the original 1956 version), and the rest in no particular order: <i>Harvey</i>, <i>Being There</i>, <i>Jesus Christ Superstar</i>, Ingmar Bergman's Trilogy (<i>Through A Glass Darkly</i>, <i>Winter Light</i> & <i>The Silence</i>), <i>Topper</i>, <i>Life is Beautiful</i>, <i>West Side Story</i>, <i>Chocolat</i> & <i>A Christmas Carol</i>.<br />
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<b>WHO HASN'T BEEN SEDUCED BY A FILM</b> <b>OR TV PROGRAM?</b> Consider one that completely engaged you--and with binge watching original programming content today, how can anyone one of us deny the fact that arts and entertainment professionals (screenwriters, directors, actors, cinematographers, producers, showrunners, etc.) are often masters of storytelling. Therefore, it makes perfect, logical sense for us to listen to what they have to say to help us become much better at it.<br />
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<b>THE BUSINESS OF STORYTELLING.</b> Now that those of us who provide strategy for and produce content are being challenged to inform, educate, persuade, inspire and entertain our audience (potential clients/customers and current ones) through storytelling, there is pressure to get up to speed FAST!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>"Storytelling must be respected and evaluated as a valued component of growth hacking and ROI."</b></i></span></h3>
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<b>STORYTELLING MUST BE RESPECTED AND EVALUATED AS A VALUED COMPONENT OF GROWTH HACKING AND ROI.</b> This is similar to filmmakers and original programming writers, studios, and streaming services who carefully craft what they create to recompense their investors and producers (they are first to get paid from the revenues).<br />
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<b>THE AUDIENCE OR USER AS THE STORYTELLER</b>. What if you're just not feeling secure as a storyteller, or simply don't have the time, budget or interest to do-it-yourself? If you've been paying close attention, you know that practically every person on this planet is telling stories in a variety of formats and sharing them on the Internet via social media, or there <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8bc6e4a8-06b2-44ea-b0a4-bc70aa49389d" id="40e1ba8a-b319-4f98-8342-3715954c4a5e"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="812732b1-484e-449b-9e87-7f8be2189b65" id="68223fca-fd5e-48bc-9ffc-b1a684aac1f0"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="eb742291-687b-4a06-979b-7fe3c489a91a" id="8c75bce1-5a37-4837-a084-afc23c6c8aa9">are</gs></gs></gs> professional membership online groups like <a href="http://stage32.com/" target="_blank">Stage32</a>. <br />
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<b>ARE YOU A CURATOR OR DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE?</b> People are often extremely eager to share their existing content (in
which case you act as a curator of nonprofessional content from the
general public), or you can collaborate with professionals who will want to contribute original
content (for which you act more as a development executive) to expand their industry resume and portfolio. Either way, the storytelling solutions are available--and some of the best resources come from those in the storytelling industry itself. <br />
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<b>MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and storytelling support now (and in the future) <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">by exploring the Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</a></b>, and previous <i>Creator's Corner</i> columns: <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/how-to-work-and-play-well-with-the-others-to-succeed/" target="_blank">How To Work (And Play) Well With "The Others" To Succeed</a></i>; <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/best-visual-content-storytelling-solutions-via-ae-professionals/" target="_blank"><i>Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals</i></a>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/lies-storytelling-strange-bedfellows-in-shades-of-gray/">Lies & Storytelling: Strange Bedfellows in Shades of Gray; </a><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-has-empathy-intimacy-its-important-to-engage/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important to Engage the Senses)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/get-up-to-speed-on-quality-do-it-yourself-storytelling-on-a-low-budget/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get Up To Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling: On a Low Budget</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-is-copied-stolen-content-or-the-lighter-shade-of-led-zeppellin/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-joy-is-in-the-story-journey-or-mission-impossible/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Joy is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/1-top-content-creators-corner-best-story-content-grounded-in-our-past-current-life/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conflict Has Creative Value, Learn How To Use It</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/card-decks-and-the-mystic-or-visionary-persona/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Card Decks & the Mystic or Visionary Persona</a></i>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/here-comes-play-doh/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Here Comes Play-Doh</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-visual-storytelling-content-one-of-top-four-creative-trends/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sacred Geometry–Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016</a></i>.<br />
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<span style="color: #5a2a24;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>A Booktrack is <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">cont<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ent</span></span> with a synchronized</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b> movie-style soundtrack.</b> It's a new way to experience creative storyt<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">elling, essays, poetry, screenplays, and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">other formats <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">utilizing</span> the integration of text, m<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">usic, amb<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ient and special effect sounds to reinvent reading and engage people into a unique experience with content.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Do it yours<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">elf or hire<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">someone famil<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">i<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a</span></span>r with the Booktrack Studio <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to create your s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tory or ot<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">her content.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #5a2a24;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #5a2a24;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1) <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Press the PLAY button on the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eBook cover.</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #5a2a24;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2</span>) Click the arrow on <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the right side of the page to turn the pages. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #5a2a24;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #5a2a24;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3</span>) Use the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(-) and (+) symbols on the bottom of the page to <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">slow down or speed up the soundtrack to synchronize better with how fast or slow you read.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #5a2a24;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #5a2a24;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4) Use the Audio icon to low<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">er the soundtrack (or <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">MUTE the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sou<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nd if you prefer to read it <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the traditional way).</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #5a2a24;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4</span>) You can experiment with <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t</span>he other symbols on the bottom<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">page. </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
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Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-59001668210660327382016-11-10T06:00:00.000-05:002016-11-12T22:19:13.567-05:00Turn Your Love My Way: Every Day As Thanksgiving Sharing and Gratitude<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<b>ORIGINAL PUBLICATION DATE: November 26, 2015. </b><br />
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<b>Now that the deep duality that exists within us has been brought more fully into the light, </b>it seems appropriate to remember our common values that this holiday inspires in personal and very practical ways.<b> </b><br />
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<b>Last year, I did not expect Thanksgiving to be celebrated in the usual way. Typically, it's been shared with my family (my two sisters, my brother, my aunt, my nieces and nephews who live in New Jersey)</b>. However, it was the first year that my brother (who died in January 2014) was not with us, and my aunt who died in 2013 would not be at the table, and my mother, and grandmothers, plus many other family and friends who have died many years ago are also passed on.<br />
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<b>Instead, I spent it in Pennsylvania with a good and unconditional loving friend of mine</b>, Holly, who I had been longing to see and spend time with for a while; and despite best laid plans for what to share doing on Thanksgiving, the Creator (God/Goddess/Great Spirit/Higher Power/Jehovah/Allah) had something else in store for us--though we didn't know what it would be. So I was set to expect the unexpected.<br />
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<b>Our plan was to be of service by working in a soup kitchen or a shelter serving food to people who can't afford</b> a traditional Thanksgiving spread for themselves or their families. Well, we learned that all the places serving food had all the volunteers they needed. This is good news! This had me thinking about the origin, the beginnings of what has become a national U.S. holiday, and how it's about SHARING and GRATITUDE.<br />
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<b>I'm thinking now about anyone who may be feeling low or sad about not being able to sit at a table in the traditional way on this holiday</b>, because self-pity and guilt was beginning to snap at my heels because I wasn't celebrating with my birth family, and Holly and I were not needed to prepare and/or serve dinner as we planned. The image that the Creator awakened me to that Thanksgiving morning, was me sharing a piece/crumb/morsel of multi-grain bread with a crow. For those unfamiliar with animal spirit medicine, the <b><a href="http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/crow.htm" target="_blank">CROW represents THE MESSENGER, SACRED LAW</a> (and <a href="http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/turkey.htm" target="_blank">TURKEY represents GIVING, SHARED BLESSINGS, SACRIFICE</a>)</b>. In that moment, I realized that nothing is too great or too small to share whether it's funding, housing, a ride, listening, food, a smile, a story, a free haircut (<a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2015/10/mark-bustos-acts-of-kindness-by_8.html" target="_blank">see post with video about Mark Bustos</a>) <i>whatever</i> I have to share with any creature that is open to <i>receiving the love that I turn their way (and that is turned mine. ALWAYS, 100% by my Creator)</i>. <br />
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<b>In this spirit, I want to share with you a song and some words that I received from <a href="http://dkbrainard.com/" target="_blank">D.K. Brainard</a>, a man I really like a whole lot,</b> in his e-newsletter that he sent out with his own take on Thanksgiving last year titled, <i>Miracles and Gratitude</i>. Thank you D.K.! (<i>Listen to D.K. as a guest on The Healing Artist Studio Project's Radio Channel. It's a podcast titled, "<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/healingartiststudio/2013/03/24/healing-and-the-greater-reality-the-new-stories" target="_blank">The Greater Reality: Soul Healing and More</a>". Some highlights include: What has been the most challenging concept for us to accept
in the Greater Reality consciousness? How close are we as adults to our
childhood career dreams? Is "not being enough" an aspect of spiritual
consumerism?</i>)<br />
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<b>Also, I remember one person I spoke with at one of the shelters on Thanksgiving sharing with me the fact that they have a great need</b> for people to help prepare and serve food EVERYDAY, not just on Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and other holidays. So this year, a friend and I are planning to volunteer on days other than the holidays.<br />
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<b>Happy "Everyday is" Thanksgiving!</b> Thanks to you all for what you've shared with me, and thanks to Godd, who for me, all blessings flow in one way or another.<br />
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<i>But I love Thanksgiving because it's so easy for me to forget to be
grateful for all the blessings in my life. The holiday itself is about
food and relaxation and the fact that Life offers us lots of help -
including from people we've never met and may never see again - if we're
open to receiving it. I believe on some level the Native Americans knew
what the white man was bringing their way. But Pocahontas and her tribe
had compassion on the poor, suffering pilgrims anyway. </i></blockquote>
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<b>"These topics are so bright, I just have to wear shades!</b><br />
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<b><b>It's been touch-and-go with my plans to get out a new 'Zine while managing my "life on life's terms" these days; </b></b>but
I did give you a heads-up last month that I couldn't be certain what
the publication schedule would be moving forward for "Creativity &
Storytelling 'Zine" and <i>The Healing Artist Studio Project</i> blog.. <br />
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<b><b>As it has turned out, some space has cleared on this unusual and historic Election Day</b></b>. I guess we all have our own beliefs about whether the campaigns used some of the best practices shared here . . . "<br />
<a href="https://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919#" target="_blank">(Read More)</a>. <br />
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<b>"CREATIVITY & STORYTELLING 'ZINE" (TOP STORIES)</b><br />
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* <a href="https://www.hatchforgood.org/explore/173/evaluating-storytelling-where-to-start" target="_blank">Evaluating Storytelling: Where to Start?</a><br />
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* <a href="https://marketinginsidergroup.com/content-marketing/best-content-marketing-examples/" target="_blank">Content Marketing Examples From Top 10 Brands</a> <br />
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* <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/3065209/the-top-four-mistakes-that-make-business-leaders-awful-storytellers" target="_blank">The Top 4 Mistakes That Make Business Leaders Awful Storytellers</a><br />
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* <a href="http://www.cmo.com/features/articles/2016/6/29/digital-dozen-creative-cmo-part-2.html" target="_blank">A Digital Dozen: 12 Traits Of The Truly Creative CMO</a><br />
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* <a href="https://www.skyword.com/contentstandard/creativity/why-the-marketing-industry-is-so-obsessed-with-creativity/" target="_blank">Why the Marketing Industry Is So Obsessed with Creativity</a> <br />
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* <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/3065017/5-creative-habits-entrepreneurs-can-learn-from-novelists" target="_blank">5 Creative Habits Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Novelists</a><br />
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<a href="https://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919#!headlines" target="_blank">And More!</a>Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-45553745496282887242016-10-17T16:00:00.000-04:002017-06-09T14:22:04.242-04:00Creator's Corner Content Roundup: Best Creativity & Storytelling Is Within Our Grasp (March 2016 - August 2016)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>NOTE: <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Creator's Corner</a></i> is now being published on Wordpress, so you can access and read all of the columns (past and future) easily at one location. <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Click Here.</a></b><br />
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<b>IT'S TIME FOR AN UPDATED ROUND-UP OF <i>CREATOR'S CORNER</i> FOR EASIER ACCESS TO THE CREATIVITY COACHING CONTENT HERE with a brief excerpt and link to each one (March 2016 to August 2016)</b>--in the spirit of "Everything we need for creativity & storytelling success is within our grasp." Of course it may not be <i>everything</i> we need, however; between <b><i>Creator's Corner</i></b> and the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/jnlf6cl" target="_blank"><b><i>Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</i></b></a>, there is a hearty helping.<br /><br />
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<b>I BEGAN WRITING CREATOR'S CORNER IN AN INFLUENCER, COACHING, INSPIRATIONAL CAPACITY</b> to share original ideas and solutions for you to consider based on my own thoughts and experiences inspired by the curated content in the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/jnlf6cl" target="_blank"><b><i>Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</i></b></a>. Due to my work and volunteer schedule, Creator's Corner columns will not be as plentiful as in the past, but I will be posting new content as space clears to do so. Cheers! <br />
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provide it in ways that engage, inspire and energize our fellow humans,
what can we do to achieve quality . . . <br />
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<a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" target="_blank"><b>Conflict Has Creative Value. Learn How To Use It.</b></a> - April 19, 2016 | <b>Creative breakthroughs often occur as the result of conflict in many aspects of the human experience. </b>I feel like screaming again because conflict and contrast commands attention. They SHOUT and we. . .<br />
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<b>MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and storytelling support now (and in the future) </b><br />
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<b>I received a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4o_xnyZVn0&feature=related" target="_blank">double rainbow</a> during a nap in what I think was a dream even though I felt like I was awake.</b> Now this is quite fascinating to me because I’ve been viewing and listening to a song titled “<b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs1bG6BIYlo" target="_blank">Wishery</a></b>” (a remix of a song from <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_%281937_film%29" target="_blank">Walt Disney’s <i>Snow White</i></a></b> that I discovered through one of the Facebook groups. This led me to thinking about mining for gold within myself and others as a healing artist. The gold nuggets I’m talking about are mental, emotional, physical, electromagnetic and spiritual energy that can yield treasure in many forms.<br />
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I don’t know about you, but for many years I have loved the song “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRa4X07jdE" target="_blank"><b>Somewhere Over the Rainbow</b></a>,” made famous by <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland" target="_blank">Judy Garland</a></b> singing it in the film, <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_%281939_film%29" target="_blank">The Wizard of Oz</a></b>. It taught me to believe I had to travel over it to get to “the pot of gold” to transmute and transform the stress and troubles of my life to beauty, peace, and tranquility. It seemed <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GAaWz4X4nU" target="_blank">so far away</a></b>, so way up high, <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmfPn-sY-8E" target="_blank">too high</a></b>, and how do I get to it?<br />
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It took me gently digging into my self with a master healer as my guide to discover the answer that I had forgotten: I AM the rainbow. The rainbow that exists above also exists below: the rapture of the double rainbow – <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSRk6U-AcEA" target="_blank">the rainbow of love</a></b>. Every person is a living rainbow to me, the manifestation of the rainbow light here on earth, and can come to <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCF1bCySn8" target="_blank">believe that they are the true Wiz of their life</a></b>. I don’t want to get into a conflict with any fans of leprechauns, but I am proof that the pot of gold is not <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq0EWNuR1H8" target="_blank">over the rainbow</a></b> but instead within me. Those nuggets and gems are within each of us, ready to be accessed, retrieved, revealed in the hidden places in our minds, physical and energy forms, hearts and spirits when we are ready to awaken, heal, and live the lives we dare to dream.<br />
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<b>Music artists:</b> <b>Judy Garland</b>, <b>Carole King, </b><b>Stevie Wonder, Tania Maria</b>, <b>Lena Horne</b>, and <b>Keith Jarret</b>. <br />
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As the disabled child <b>Tiny Tim</b> says in the book, "A Christmas Carol", written by <b>Charles Dickens</b>: "God bless us, Everyone!"<br />
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<b>WHO HASN'T HAD TO ENTER INTO AN ALMOST DAILY RELATIONSHIP WITH LIES IN OUR POLITICAL CLIMATE TODAY</b> as we countdown to choosing our next president of the United States of America (#45). <br />
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<b>"HE'S LYING!" "SHE'S LYING!" THE WORDS <i>LIAR</i> AND <i>LYING</i> KEEP BEING BANTERED, TOSSED, HURLED</b>, yelled and spat. My ear distinguishes them in the cacophony of words used by guest panelists on CNN.<br />
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<b>SOMETIMES IT'S SPOKEN IN A SUBDUED MANNER BY POLITICAL AND MEDIA WORDSMITHS. FOR SOME REASON</b> when I hear it the child in me starts thinking--well, really singing in my head: "Liar, liar, pants on fire."<br />
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<b>THOSE WHO LIE GET SPANKED IN A VARIETY OF WAYS NOW (OR NOT)</b>, but we'll have to wait until November to learn who receives the final punishment. Unfortunately, lies are often hurtful and harmful; yet, this leads me to share my thoughts and an experience about the relationship between lies and storytelling. <br />
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<b>CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION ARE THE BEDROCK OF GREAT LIES, TALL TALES; OTHERWISE KNOWN AS STORYTELLING</b>. In fact, during my childhood, my mother wouldn't
say <i>stop lying to me</i> as much as she would say: "Stop telling stories!" Or perhaps I just want to remember it that way because it's more palatable to me; and therefore, my recollection is fiction.<br />
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<b>IS IT LYING IF I HAVE NO IDEA WHICH STORY IS REAL?</b> If I just can't remember? Do the best storytellers know the difference? Does it matter? Is there an ethics to storytelling? Depends on the context or situation? Yes. No. Maybe So. So we say.<br />
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<b>AS A CHILD, I LEARNED LYING CAN CARRY SOME HARSH REPERCUSSIONS OF THE KARMIC VARIETY.</b> Mom would ask me who took those cookies after she told us (my three siblings) not to touch them. My favorite answer was: "I don't know." <i>I don't know</i> was an invisible entity in our household who did the things to which none of us wanted to admit. I couldn't resist oatmeal cookies (and I have a pack that I really don't need right now).<br />
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<b>ONE DAY MY MOTHER PUT THE COOKIES HIGH UP IN THE CUPBOARD. AFTER SHE LEFT THE KITCHEN</b>, I moved the step stool over to it, opened the cupboard, and reached behind the iron to get them. I knocked over the hot iron! It slid down my arm. I fell off the stool, and have a long, visible scar on my arm to this day. Storytelling <i>usually</i> doesn't carry such hurtful results.<br />
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<b>MAKE UP A WORD THAT DOESN'T EXIST. CREATE A STORY AROUND THE WORD. GIVE A PRESS CONFERENCE CONCERNING IT. </b>Use your co-workers, family or friends as the press. Make it a game. You have 20 minutes to prepare the story you are going to tell which is essentially a lie, not true, unreal.<br />
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<b>I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS MY ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS OR THE ART OF PERSUASION COURSE. IT WAS DURING THE FIRST WEEK</b> of the semester. At the end of 20 minutes, I received an A+ from my peers (aka <i>the press</i>) for an expert complete and total fabrication.<br />
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<b>THEY WANTED TO TOUR THE FACILITIES BUILT THROUGH GOVERNMENT</b> and investor partnerships where the serum to preserve jungle eco-systems was created! They fired questions at me like crazy, and I answered every one of them with confidence and ease:<br />
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We created huge greenhouse facilities here in the U.S. in Arizona, took a sample of every major plant species from each jungle, recreated each environment, we introduced the known variables to-date that serve as threats, and tested the serum for two years. <br /><br />We were meticulous and committed to almost a religious fervor in our efforts since our failure or success impacts our children, our children's children, who are our future. It would be incredibly monstrous and selfish for us as ancestors not to do everything we can to assure them healthy and safe environments. </li>
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<b>LIES CAN BE LITTLE WHITE ONES OR HUGE WHOPPERS. THEY CAN BE USED TO DECEIVE, INJURE, PERSUADE, REFLECT, RE-DIRECT OR PROTECT. THEY ARE FICTION (KNOWN OR UNKNOWN)?</b> Lies may indeed include reality but only as partial components, never pure truth. Stories can be short or epic, and they can be used to hurt, harm or manipulate. Are they used with an intent to deceive as are lies? <br />
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<a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2016/07/creators-corner-creativity-storytelling.html" target="_blank"><b>THE BEST STORIES ARE ENGAGING IN WAYS THAT HELP US EMPATHIZE WITH THE CHARACTERS AND/OR SUBJECTS </b>(sometimes environments, conditions, attributes, and situations)</a> so
we can connect and care; become interested, inspired or motivated, or
are moved to a powerful emotion or action (even inaction).<br />
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<b>STORYTELLING CAN BE 100% FICTION (IMAGINATION) OR MIXED WITH ELEMENTS OF REALITY</b>, or 100% non-fiction (truth, unlike lies) or mixed with elements of imagination (though kept secret in a lie of omission) in a multitude of creative forms that are ever expanding and bursting boundaries.<br />
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<b>NOW TO USE</b> all of this in a creative storytelling ways as part of the fabric of the human condition.<br />
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<b>MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and storytelling support now (and in the future) <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">by exploring the Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</a></b>, and previous <i>Creator's Corner</i> columns: <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/how-to-work-and-play-well-with-the-others-to-succeed/" target="_blank">How To Work (And Play) Well With "The Others" To Succeed</a></i>; <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/best-visual-content-storytelling-solutions-via-ae-professionals/" target="_blank"><i>Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals</i></a>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/lies-storytelling-strange-bedfellows-in-shades-of-gray/">Lies & Storytelling: Strange Bedfellows in Shades of Gray; </a><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-has-empathy-intimacy-its-important-to-engage/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important to Engage the Senses)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/get-up-to-speed-on-quality-do-it-yourself-storytelling-on-a-low-budget/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get Up To Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling: On a Low Budget</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-is-copied-stolen-content-or-the-lighter-shade-of-led-zeppellin/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-joy-is-in-the-story-journey-or-mission-impossible/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Joy is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/1-top-content-creators-corner-best-story-content-grounded-in-our-past-current-life/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conflict Has Creative Value, Learn How To Use It</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/card-decks-and-the-mystic-or-visionary-persona/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Card Decks & the Mystic or Visionary Persona</a></i>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/here-comes-play-doh/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Here Comes Play-Doh</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-visual-storytelling-content-one-of-top-four-creative-trends/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sacred Geometry–Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016</a></i>.<br />
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Dare to shine, be generous, and love this life.<br />
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Valerie<br />
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<b><i>CREATOR'S CORNER</i> is dedicated to sharing ideas that come to mind after <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">reading and selecting articles for <i>The Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</i></a> </b><b><b>(as the editor/curator) </b>that may be useful in a professional or personal capacity. </b>Interest
in creativity and storytelling as content for usage in arts &
entertainment, media communications, marketing and advertising, and as lifestyle choices for businesses, projects and
services (groups that have a way of life that may or may not be included
in their brand identity), can be relevant to anyone anywhere in the
world covering a variety of professions.
Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-64736357497693349812016-07-27T11:30:00.000-04:002017-06-10T08:58:14.846-04:00Creator's Corner: Best Storytelling Has Empathy & Intimacy (It's Important to Engage)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>I HAD THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CREATING VISUAL CONTENT (PUBLICATIONS, PACKAGING, AND SAFER SEX ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS)</b> to help save the lives of men, women, and children at-risk for HIV/AIDS during the fours years that I worked at <a href="http://www.gmhc.org/" target="_blank"><b>Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.</b></a> in
New York City, the oldest HIV/AIDS prevention, education and
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<b>ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING PROJECTS FOR ME WAS ART-DIRECTING</b> <b>A PHOTO SHOOT</b> that required consulting and collaborating with sex industry workers to create packaging for a video: <i>Prostitutes, Risk and AIDS</i>.<br />
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One Image Worth So Many Individual Stories </h3>
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<b>I WAS AN OUTSIDER FULL OF IGNORANCE ABOUT THE VARIETY OF SEX WORKER LIFESTYLES</b>, who feared what I didn't
understand, and was reluctant therefore to empathize because my judgemental sensibility
interfered with using my senses <i>(i.e., of or relating to the senses)</i>--<b>connecting through the senses</b>--to set the right scene, mood, and tone to tell the story. It was challenging for me to connect to the textual and sound context: the feel of a lacy bra as the sound of the crispness of the dollar bills were being tucked into it, while the other hand holds a limp used latex condom--human visceral reality engaged in a multi-sensory relationship foreign to me.<br />
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<b>I HAD TO RELY ON THE WOMEN TO COME UP WITH THAT PERFECT IDEA TO CAPTURE THE STORY</b> in one realistic image, in a sensory fashion, so that the various target audience segments (e.g., adult streetwalkers, high-class agency-based or independent workers, children on-the-street hustling, pornography film actors, etc.) would instantly
recognize the safer sex message in a way that would attract, engage and
persuade them to view the video inside the packaging. The video content encouraged them to use condoms to protect themselves and their customers. The stakes were high: lives needed to be saved. <br />
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<b>DURING THE PHOTO SHOOT, I LEARNED A GREAT DEAL FROM THE SEX WORKERS ABOUT THE POWER OF VISUAL CONTENT. </b>Today, I'm much more open to empathy as a valuable--and potential vital--path to tell a story that serves a goal, vision, intent, or specific outcome. <br />
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<u>See Me, Feel Me, Hear Me, Touch Me, Taste Me (or Two Specific Ideas Featuring the Senses As the Main Attraction In Storytelling)</u></h3>
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<b>HERE ARE TWO ORIGINAL IDEAS</b> for inspiration that use the sensory factor in creative storytelling:<br />
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<b>TEXT, AUDIO, OR VIDEO CONTENT THAT FEATURES SOMEONE DEEPLY INHALING THE SCENT OF PLAY-DOH</b> (or any piece of clay) can be useful as content (<a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2016/04/creators-corner-play-doh.html" target="_blank">Read <i>Creator's Corner: Here Comes Play-Doh!</i></a>). This particular sense memory can lead us into an intimate relationship with a story--most likely something related to our childhood.<br />
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To put a different twist on it to engage in a different story relationship, consider a person snorting the scent of <a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2016/04/creators-corner-play-doh.html" target="_blank"><b>Play-Doh</b></a> like it's cocaine. Different scenarios of the interaction will create entirely different relationships and feelings--comical or serious--depending upon the story direction and desired outcome.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://writerunboxed.com/2016/07/18/storytelling-an-exercise-in-empathy/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Storytelling: An Exercise In Empathy</span></a></span></div>
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<b>SELLING JEWELRY? IMAGINE A STORY ABOUT A WOMAN FROM THE STONE AGE WHO FINDS SOMETHING WITH A VIBRANT SPARKLE ON THE GROUND.</b> She picks it up, smells it, listens for sound, throws it on the ground, picks it up again and bangs it against a rock; licks it, tries to bite it, rubs it against her skin--engages her senses in trying to understand this spectacular, unusual object. She is spellbound by how it glistens! We know it as a diamond bracelet. Next scene is a grandmother opening up a box of her keepsakes, selecting that bracelet among her precious belongings, and giving it as a gift to her daughter.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://standinbalance.com/creativity-5-senses/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Cultivating Creativity Through Your 5 Senses</span></a></span></div>
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<b>LET'S CREATE UNIVERSAL STORIES--OR NICHE ONES--ABOUT HOW WE ARE INTIMATELY BOUND TO SOMETHING</b>, someone, some experience, and ourselves through our sensual relationships. Or perhaps, our story is about disconnection, and offers solutions to connect in ways we haven't experienced in a long time if ever.<br />
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<b>MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and storytelling support now (and in the future) <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">by exploring the Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</a></b>, and previous <i>Creator's Corner</i> columns: <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/how-to-work-and-play-well-with-the-others-to-succeed/" target="_blank">How To Work (And Play) Well With "The Others" To Succeed</a></i>; <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/best-visual-content-storytelling-solutions-via-ae-professionals/" target="_blank"><i>Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals</i></a>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/lies-storytelling-strange-bedfellows-in-shades-of-gray/">Lies & Storytelling: Strange Bedfellows in Shades of Gray; </a><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-has-empathy-intimacy-its-important-to-engage/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important to Engage the Senses)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/get-up-to-speed-on-quality-do-it-yourself-storytelling-on-a-low-budget/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get Up To Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling: On a Low Budget</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-is-copied-stolen-content-or-the-lighter-shade-of-led-zeppellin/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-joy-is-in-the-story-journey-or-mission-impossible/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Joy is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/1-top-content-creators-corner-best-story-content-grounded-in-our-past-current-life/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conflict Has Creative Value, Learn How To Use It</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/card-decks-and-the-mystic-or-visionary-persona/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Card Decks & the Mystic or Visionary Persona</a></i>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/here-comes-play-doh/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Here Comes Play-Doh</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-visual-storytelling-content-one-of-top-four-creative-trends/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sacred Geometry–Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016</a></i>.<br />
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Dare to shine, be generous, and love this life.<br />
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Valerie<br />
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<b><i>CREATOR'S CORNER</i> is dedicated to sharing ideas that come to mind after <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">reading and selecting articles for <i>The Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</i></a> </b><b><b>(as the editor/curator) </b>that may be useful in a professional or personal capacity. </b>Interest
in creativity and storytelling as content for usage in arts &
entertainment, media communications, marketing and advertising, and as lifestyle choices for businesses, projects and
services (groups that have a way of life that may or may not be included
in their brand identity), can be relevant to anyone anywhere in the
world covering a variety of professions.
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<br />Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-60412142346874080272016-06-25T16:43:00.000-04:002017-06-10T08:58:41.161-04:00Creator's Corner: Get Up to Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling (On a Low Budget)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>AS A VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS FACULTY MEMBER, </b>I had the pleasure and privilege to help motivate senior undergraduate students and gain content for their portfolios by giving them concrete business experience through attracting, arranging, and art directing <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ValOliver/biz-educproposal" target="_blank"><b>business-education partnerships</b> </a>with arts entrepreneurs, solopreneurs (filmmakers, musicians) and other business entities who had either no or low budgets to create and market their projects, products or services in tangible ways.<br />
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<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ValOliver/biz-educproposal" target="_blank"><b>I CREATED AND SENT OUT BUSINESS-EDUCATION PROPOSALS TO POTENTIAL CLIENTS.</b></a> The classes and I met with respondents either in person or via teleconference, worked out a contract, and then began the client's project as an in-class design competition with an agreed upon reward for the winning design (e.g., attendance at the film premiere, letter of recommendation, appropriate credit, etc.). All of this in service to helping an individual or business to attract and reach somebody (or many bodies) to respond in some way, shape or form.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(<a href="http://www.indiewire.com/2016/03/sxsw-2016-what-is-the-key-to-writing-a-good-short-film-script-58016/" target="_blank">Source</a>)</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.indiewire.com/2016/03/sxsw-2016-what-is-the-key-to-writing-a-good-short-film-script-58016/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What are the Keys to Writing a Good Short Film Script?</span></a></div>
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<b>IN OUR WORLD IN WHICH CONTENT IS QUEEN/KING AND WE MUST USE VITAL CREATIVITY AND STORYTELLING mojo </b>and provide it in ways that engage, inspire and energize our fellow humans, what can we do to achieve quality in a timely, expeditious fashion? How can we get it done on a <b>no to low budget</b> if lacking the necessary financial resources to hire experts or take courses? What are some reliable solutions?<br />
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<b>TAG YOU'RE IT! AND DAMN, YOU'RE GOOD.</b></h3>
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<b>AS GLENDA SAYS TO DOROTHY IN <i>THE WIZARD OF OZ</i>, "YOU ALWAYS HAD THE POWER TO GO HOME." </b>You can do it yourself. You can do it with a small group of family, friends, co-workers, employees, who want to have a creative and unique experience by telling a story. Remember that we are living in the age of sharing our personal perspectives, visions, images, opinions in raw (unpolished) forms with others who are ready and willing to read, listen, view, engage, and often respond in harmony with our intention.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(<a href="https://lauralicursiblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/struggling-with-your-content-marketing-create-because-you-care/" target="_blank">Source</a>)</td></tr>
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<a href="https://lauralicursiblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/struggling-with-your-content-marketing-create-because-you-care/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Struggling with Your Content Marketing? Create Because You Care</span></a></div>
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<b>BE AUTHENTIC, EXPERIMENT, KEEP IT SHORT, AND HAVE FUN.</b> You or your <i>posse</i> only need to make it happen. Tell your individual or collective stories, and start with what's happening in your world in ways in which others can identify, relate, be educated, or react <b>(Read <i>Creator's Corner</i> column titled <i><a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2016/05/creators-corner-mining-best-story.html" target="_blank">Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life</a></i>)</b>. If you decide there's something missing and it's <i>not quite ready for prime time</i>, you can use your creation as concept material to pass along to someone who can realize it for you.<br />
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<a href="http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/how-to-shoot-short-film-one-hour-become-better-filmmaker-cameron-miller-desart-1201686775/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">How to Shoot a Short in One-Hour</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/141473682" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="430"></iframe> <a href="https://vimeo.com/141473682">Wait, what.</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user27061501">Photon Harvest</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<b>USE WRITING PROMPTS AND GIVE YOURSELF 15-MINUTES TO CREATE THE STORY. </b>This will work for <i>anything</i> that is on your work plate. Mainly because you won't be using your analytical, "I-have-to-be-in-control-and-do-this-perfectly" left-brain that can sabotage your intuitive, creative flow channel. Besides, you've already done that part with whatever you have before you that requires the creativity solution.<br />
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<b>YOU CAN CHOOSE A WRITING PROMPT THAT DIRECTLY RELATES TO YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICE</b>, or use words that have nothing to do with it at all and see what magic (meaning something wonderful appearing that wasn't there before) transpires. You can create a few prompts for the same project or service as well. If you're happy with the result(s): great! If not, pass what you have along as concepts to someone else to produce the final product. (<b>For inspiration, read <a href="http://healchildabuse.blogspot.com/2016/06/leaning-in-prompt-flash-fiction-content.html" target="_blank"><i>Leaning In</i></a> and <a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2013/06/back-up-truck-short-fiction-written-in.html" target="_blank"><i>Back Up the Truck</i></a>.</b>)<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Don’t make it a full story. Make it a taste of a story leaving the audience wanting more.</i> -- <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shant-hamassian-72501323" target="_blank">Shant Hamassian</a></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<b>GIVE SENIOR TALENTED STUDENTS FROM YOUR ALMA MATER (OR ANOTHER UNIVERSITY) THE OPPORTUNITY TO HELP YOU SUCCEED AND VICE VERSA.</b> Reach out to the appropriate department chair--creative writing, filmmaking, digital media, visual communications, music, art--and let them know that you would like to work with a faculty member to collaborate on a business-education project. If you prefer, you can request that the chair recommend a talented student for an independent study on your project for which she/he will get a review and college credits (in addition to any other rewards you want to offer). It's a win-win relationship. <br />
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<b>THESE ARE A FEW SUGGESTED IDEAS TO GET YOU ON YOUR WAY</b><b><b>. </b></b>I hope you find value in this column (and the new focus of the 'Zine <b>from spirituality TO storytelling</b> in response to your interests), and will visit the <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank"><b><i>Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</i></b></a> for much more content I've curated to help you succeed in your new (or continuing role) as a creator and storyteller for your product, project, business or service.<br />
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<b>1) Content Inspiration:</b> </b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.indiewire.com/2016/03/sxsw-2016-what-is-the-key-to-writing-a-good-short-film-script-58016/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">What are the Keys to Writing a Good Short Film Script?</span></a></span><b> </b><br />
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<b>2) Content Inspiration:</b> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://lauralicursiblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/struggling-with-your-content-marketing-create-because-you-care/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Struggling with Your Content Marketing? Create Because You Care</span></a></span><a href="http://stories.gettyimages.com/2016-creative-in-focus-our-visual-trend-report/" target="_blank"></a><br />
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<b>3) Content Inspiration:</b> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/how-to-shoot-short-film-one-hour-become-better-filmmaker-cameron-miller-desart-1201686775/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">How to Shoot a Short in One-Hour</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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<b>MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and storytelling support now (and in the future) <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">by exploring the Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</a></b>, and previous <i>Creator's Corner</i> columns: <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/how-to-work-and-play-well-with-the-others-to-succeed/" target="_blank">How To Work (And Play) Well With "The Others" To Succeed</a></i>; <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/best-visual-content-storytelling-solutions-via-ae-professionals/" target="_blank"><i>Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals</i></a>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/lies-storytelling-strange-bedfellows-in-shades-of-gray/">Lies & Storytelling: Strange Bedfellows in Shades of Gray; </a><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-has-empathy-intimacy-its-important-to-engage/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important to Engage the Senses)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/get-up-to-speed-on-quality-do-it-yourself-storytelling-on-a-low-budget/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get Up To Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling: On a Low Budget</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-is-copied-stolen-content-or-the-lighter-shade-of-led-zeppellin/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-joy-is-in-the-story-journey-or-mission-impossible/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Joy is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/1-top-content-creators-corner-best-story-content-grounded-in-our-past-current-life/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conflict Has Creative Value, Learn How To Use It</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/card-decks-and-the-mystic-or-visionary-persona/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Card Decks & the Mystic or Visionary Persona</a></i>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/here-comes-play-doh/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Here Comes Play-Doh</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-visual-storytelling-content-one-of-top-four-creative-trends/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sacred Geometry–Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016</a></i>.<br />
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Dare to shine, be generous, and love this life.<br />
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<b><i>CREATOR'S CORNER</i> is dedicated to sharing ideas that come to mind after <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">reading and selecting articles for <i>The Creativity & Storytelling 'Zine</i></a> </b><b><b>(as the editor/curator) </b>that may be useful in a professional or personal capacity. </b>Interest
in creativity and storytelling as content for usage in arts &
entertainment, media communications, marketing and advertising, and as lifestyle choices for businesses, projects and
services (groups that have a way of life that may or may not be included
in their brand identity), can be relevant to anyone anywhere in the
world covering a variety of professions.Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-75200892244362973652016-06-07T11:03:00.000-04:002016-06-12T11:54:20.326-04:00What's In Or On Your Bedside Table? Objects As Storytelling Content<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<b><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>EVERY OBJECT WE UTILIZE IN LIFE </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>HAS A STORY TO TELL ABOUT US, OR REFLECTS WHO WE ARE</b></span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">or</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> what we value—past, present and future. (As Sherlock Holmes says, “It’s elementary.”) </span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some stories we want to hear, and some, perhaps not.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am almost empty. Val has had sinus problems for a long time. The worst is when she develops sinusitis. This happens because she ingests things into her body that weakens her immune system: dairy products, sugar, some caffeine, and products with monosodium glutamate. Today, her sinuses are revolting and pain is their way of communicating to her, of saying: “Change your habits!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The clinic director rushed over to the hotel in which she was staying and drove her to the clinic. The doctors put her in a hyperbaric chamber because her oxygen level had dropped to the low thirties. A normal level is in the 90s. Val has anemia. Cusco is 13,000 feet above sea level and her blood couldn’t make enough oxygen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Although she is reaching for me tonight, I must say she has made changes </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;">so</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> she doesn’t need to use me very often. She’s sworn off two drains on her immune system: alcohol and cigarettes. Plus, she almost only uses Yacon honey & syrup (a low-calorie, low-blood sugar sweetener for diabetics and weight-watchers she discovered in Peru), uses Almond beverage and goat’s milk, and minimizes caffeine intake. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Her greatest enemy is her love for sugar-producing carbohydrates (the “bad” carbs) she eats for comfort food, or just because it’s a hard pattern to break. Also, she loves sour cream mixed with Lipton Onion Soup to make a dip that complements her favorite potato chips, Lays Classic. The soup mix has monosodium glutamate. Also, she’s prone to binges of putting cheddar cheese in her morning grits and making grill cheese sandwiches.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sinus problems are a symptom of deeper issues—emotional ones. She was abused as a child, and it left an imprint on her. It says: “You’re not worthy. You’re not good enough. You aren’t a person to value.” Sometimes these feelings rear up—even though she’s worked hard against them, knowing they are not true. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She uses me to wipe her tears too; although lately, she wipes her tears with her fingers and rubs them into her skin where her heart resides.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The book, “The Secret.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The book, “Messages from Your Angels.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A hand-painted, black lacquer jewelry box my dad brought home to my mother after serving in the military in Okinawa.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A digital microcassette recorder.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A remote for my DVD/VHS player.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A small, white box with pearl earrings inside.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My Zrii notebook.</span></div>
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Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-31488000238579063252016-06-05T21:07:00.000-04:002017-06-10T08:58:58.107-04:00Creator's Corner: Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SsaZQ-q31Tk/ViWBEnj_rFI/AAAAAAAACXM/e6mrzgHi_bMvSXhPSEgrj2aWgz1cmoXZwCKgB/s1600/Valerie%2BOliver%2BProfile%2BPhoto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SsaZQ-q31Tk/ViWBEnj_rFI/AAAAAAAACXM/e6mrzgHi_bMvSXhPSEgrj2aWgz1cmoXZwCKgB/s1600/Valerie%2BOliver%2BProfile%2BPhoto.jpg" /></a><b></b><br />
<b><b>NOTE: <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Creator's Corner</a></i> is now being published on Wordpress, so you can access and read all of the columns (past and future) easily at one location. <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Click Here.</a></b></b><br />
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<b>DURING MY STUDIES WITH AN AMAZING HEALING ARTIST, ENTREPRENEUR AND AUTHOR <a href="http://sacredcenter.net/about/" target="_blank">(Eleanora Amendolora of Sacred Center for the Healing Arts)</a></b>--who has spent many years among the Andean Quechua Indian people in Peru who are descendants of the ancient Incans--I discovered their practical and spiritual relationship to <b>AYNI (or reciprocity, exchange)</b> in their culture.<i><b> </b></i><br />
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<b>THEY HAVE A DEEP ENDURING BELIEF IN AND VALUE THEIR CREATOR AS A MODEL OF GENEROSITY</b> who cares for them. They offer and practice <b>Ayni</b> <b>(reciprocity, exchange</b>) as a form of gratitude and respect for the creative and abundant ways in which their Patchamama (Great Mother) provides and meets their living needs. They view <b>Ayni</b> as the basis for a peaceful and sustainable society. It is <b>divine living,</b> an intrinsic value component of their society. There is no take, take, take without giving back. It's unheard of. <b><a href="http://turnonyourlight.com/2011/04/ayni-the-path-of-reciprocity/" target="_blank">(Discover more about Ayni.)</a></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.everyvowel.com/what-beyonce-and-shakespeare-have-in-common-the-key-to-creativity/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What Beyonce & Shakespeare Have In Common: <br />The Key to Creativity</span></a></div>
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<b>ANYI IN THE MIDST OF OUR CREATIVE RELATIONSHIPS</b><b> </b> </h3>
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<b>AS A TEENAGER IN HIGH SCHOOL IN MRS. JONES' ENGLISH CLASS </b>where I learned and discovered my love for English Composition and Writing, I remember being excited by all the articles and books I read to prepare for reports on a variety of subjects. There were many times that I wanted to lift some of what was written to include in my reports, but would quickly shake it off hearing her voice saying: <i>You must not plagiarize. The work of others is copyrighted. You must not copy and write anyone's word's as your own. If you do, it is stealing. If you steal, you will get an F.</i> Still, I was tempted and had to fight my demon, driven more by fear than good conduct.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>We'll look back at how the Internet allowed us to swipe from anywhere and any era.</i> --Jon Youshaei </span></span></span></span><br />
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<b>SOME YEARS LATER AS A EDITOR, GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND ART DIRECTOR, I ALWAYS KEPT A FOLDER OF TYPOGRAPHY AND PHOTOS</b> cut out from magazines to inspire creative ideas for projects, always vigilant to get permission from the source if I wanted to use something that belonged to someone else, being certain to provide the credit due as per their instructions. <br />
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<b>IN OUR CREATIVE GLOBAL LIFESTYLE </b><b><b>CULTURE </b>TODAY, WE ARE STILL REQUIRED TO HONOR COPYRIGHTED WORKS </b> (in many situations) by securing the approval of the creators and adhering to their requirements for usage. We may use works for free that are in the public domain that meet certain time limit criteria or are of an unknown origin. We have resources like <a href="https://creativecommons.org/" target="_blank"><b>Creative Commons licenses</b></a> in which the creators give us a variety of permission options to expand upon and provide use of their works by us.<br />
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<b>ALSO, WE HAVE A FORM OF AYNI--DIVINE LIVING IN PRACTICE TODAY</b> <b>BY BEYONCE, </b>a top music industry professional. Her creative process includes taking and using existing content from others (dance, visual) and using it in her music videos. There is a new perspective in play now that doesn't view her actions as <i>rip-off</i> copy and paste behavior, but rather as <i>copy with respect and taste</i> (though everyone isn't in agreement just yet about it). So far it's working well for her with no lawsuits (<a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/led-zeppelin-wins-stairway-heaven-905866" target="_blank">unlike the band, <b>Led Zeppelin,</b> who had a lawsuit brought against them for the blockbuster song "Stairway To Heaven" by the band, <b>Spirit</b></a>--though the ruling was in Zeppelin's favor).<br />
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<b>BECOME A DIVINE LIVING SURREALITY OUTSIDER CREATIVE STORYTELLER</b></h3>
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<b>LET'S CONSIDER TAKING A PAGE FROM BEYONCE WHO IS OPEN AND HONEST ABOUT WHAT SHE TAKES FROM OTHERS,</b> who focuses on doing whatever she can to include those from whom she takes in her projects (whether it's one person or many), and represents one who is a divine living surreal outsider creative storyteller.<br />
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<b>WHAT STEPS DO WE TAKE OTHER THAN AYNI-DIVINE LIVING TO BECOME</b> this new creative force to employ in our businesses, organizations, and projects? <br />
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<li><b>BREAKOUT FROM TRADITIONAL APPROACHES AND MODELS</b> <b>DESPITE POTENTIAL FLACK</b> that you might receive from doubters or critics who aren't as courageous, and/or fear conflict or change. Demonstrate or develop your leadership qualities by becoming an outsider or rebel to stand out from the pack as an entrepreneur, solopreneur, mompreneur, life coach, spiritual coach, author, musician, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, content curator, content marketer, content strategist, marketing strategist, digital strategist, or whatever your role <b>(Read <i>Creator's Corner</i> column titled <i><a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2016/04/creators-corner-religion-sprituality.html" target="_blank">Religion, Spirituality--Contrasting, Trending</a></i>)</b>.</li>
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<a href="http://www.curbed.com/2016/5/26/11787704/toy-design-prix-emile-hermes" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 12 Designy Toys to Spark Your Creativity</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<li><b>REACHOUT (WHILE YOU'RE BREAKING OUT) TO STORYTELLERS WHO ARE COMFORTABLE WITH CREATING SURREAL CONTENT</b> (or research and develop your own content). Immerse yourself in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" target="_blank"><i>The Twilight Zone</i></a> of life to get your readers, viewers, clients, customers, fans, followers, friends, listeners engaged in experiencing your content through close encounters of sight, sound--and when practical--touch and aromas, to take them beyond the ordinary emotional, mental, physical and spiritual experiences to the extraordinary. <b>(Read <i>Creator's Corner</i> column titled </b><b><i><a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2016/03/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-symbols.html" target="_blank"><i></i></a><i><a href="http://healingartiststudio.blogspot.com/2016/03/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-symbols.html" target="_blank">Sacred Geometry--Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016</a></i>)</i></b></li>
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<b>WE ARE INDIVIDUALS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE WHO LIVE </b><b><b>IN A SHARED WORLD </b></b>that reflects our values (or not);<b> </b>support innovation, imagination, and collaboration (or not); and some of us will chose to become divine living surreality outsider creative storytellers (or not). Whatever our choice, it's clear to me through all of the written and visual content I've been consuming and digesting, that we will either be behind the times, or be in step with the directions creativity and spirituality are already heading with or without us. <br />
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<b>1) Content Inspiration:</b> </b><a href="http://www.everyvowel.com/what-beyonce-and-shakespeare-have-in-common-the-key-to-creativity/" target="_blank">What Beyonce & Shakespeare Have In Common: A Key To Creativity</a><b> </b><br />
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<b>2) Content Inspiration:</b> <a href="http://stories.gettyimages.com/2016-creative-in-focus-our-visual-trend-report/" target="_blank">2016 Creative In Focus, Our Visual Trend Report (Getty Images)</a><a href="http://www.everyvowel.com/what-beyonce-and-shakespeare-have-in-common-the-key-to-creativity/" target="_blank"></a><br />
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<b>3) Content Inspiration:</b> <a href="http://www.curbed.com/2016/5/26/11787704/toy-design-prix-emile-hermes" target="_blank">12 Designy Toys To Spark Your Creativity</a><b><br /></b><br />
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<b>MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and spiritual support now (and in the future) <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">by exploring the Creativity & Spirituality Magazine</a></b>, and previous <i>Creator's Corner</i> columns: Creator's Corner: <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/how-to-work-and-play-well-with-the-others-to-succeed/" target="_blank">How To Work (And Play) Well With "The Others" To Succeed</a></i>; <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/best-visual-content-storytelling-solutions-via-ae-professionals/" target="_blank"><i>Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals</i></a>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/lies-storytelling-strange-bedfellows-in-shades-of-gray/">Lies & Storytelling: Strange Bedfellows in Shades of Gray; </a><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-has-empathy-intimacy-its-important-to-engage/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important to Engage the Senses)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/get-up-to-speed-on-quality-do-it-yourself-storytelling-on-a-low-budget/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get Up To Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling: On a Low Budget</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-is-copied-stolen-content-or-the-lighter-shade-of-led-zeppellin/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-joy-is-in-the-story-journey-or-mission-impossible/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Joy is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/1-top-content-creators-corner-best-story-content-grounded-in-our-past-current-life/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conflict Has Creative Value, Learn How To Use It</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/card-decks-and-the-mystic-or-visionary-persona/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Card Decks & the Mystic or Visionary Persona</a></i>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/here-comes-play-doh/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Here Comes Play-Doh</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-visual-storytelling-content-one-of-top-four-creative-trends/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sacred Geometry–Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016</a></i>.<br />
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Dare to shine, be generous, and love this life.<br />
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Valerie<br />
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<b><i>CREATOR'S CORNER</i> is dedicated to sharing ideas that come to mind after <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">reading and selecting articles for <i>The Creativity & Spirituality Magazine</i></a> </b><b><b>(as the editor) </b>that may be useful in a professional or personal capacity. </b>Interest
in creativity and spirituality as content for usage in arts &
entertainment, media communications, marketing and advertising, and as lifestyle choices for businesses, projects and
services (groups that have a way of life that may or may not be included
in their brand identity), can be relevant to anyone anywhere in the
world covering a variety of professions.Valerie Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17788319114060215566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481527399470057908.post-21574645442064573352016-05-18T10:05:00.001-04:002017-06-10T08:59:17.890-04:00Creator's Corner: The Joy Is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>ONE OF MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME IS</b> <i>Mission Impossible</i> that is also a successful film franchise starring Tom Cruise. If you're unfamiliar with it, basically, it revolves around a team of special covert agents who are given an extremely dangerous mission to accomplish within a tight time frame.<br />
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<b>WHAT REALLY KEPT ME ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT WASN'T</b> the mission getting accomplished or <i>the end</i> (though I was happy to get the payoff): it was everything that occurred prior to actually accomplishing it. In effect, the joy for me was in the journey--that was the story! <b>Or as David Byrne of Talking Heads sings in the song, <i>Once In A Lifetime</i>: <i>Well, how did I get here</i>?</b><br />
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<b>THE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE TEAM WERE MASTERS OF CREATIVITY</b> serving a practical purpose; who were constantly aware, alert, mindful, paying intensive attention, and had to be extremely close to perfect timing, synchronicity in order to make the impossible possible. How about you and I? Aren't we all in the same or similar story in one way or another?<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Things are only impossible until they are not.</i> --Jean Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation</span></span></span></span><br />
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<b>ARE WE OPEN-MINDED ENOUGH TO EXPERIMENT WITH NEW</b> ways to create art,
content, ideas, marketing strategy, content strategy through
mindfulness, intuitive knowing, spiritual synchronicity, or some channel we can't fully comprehend or explain as part of our story? <br />
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<b>I WAS HIRED TO DESIGN THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION</b>, and was researching legal images, symbols, colors, sounds, words; and had two rough compositions based upon them to share at my first meeting. In the course of that week, I had been noticing windows over and over again. They kept drawing my attention. Why? <b> </b><br />
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<b>Column Inspiration:</b><br />
<b><a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/01/john-steinbeck-east-of-eden-journal-letters/" target="_blank">"John Steinbeck on Writing, The Crucible of Creativity, and The Mobilizing Power of the Impossible"</a></b></div>
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<b>THE NEXT TIME I SAT DOWN TO WORK, I DREW WINDOWS AND EXPLORED HOW WE USE THEM</b> and what they represent. They allow those of us on the outside to look at what is occurring on the inside. Eyes have been described as windows to the soul. There's an intimacy associated with looking in on the activity of others. Windows are related to opportunities.<br />
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<b>SO, I CREATED ONE MORE COMPOSITION WITH WINDOWS FLOATING AROUND</b> a central window in which a man is having an intimate conversation with a young boy. The floating windows were colorful (like Microsoft Windows), and the central window was framed with legal columns. I decided to trust what was being visually communicated to me.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://blog.creativelive.com/gabby-bernstein/" target="_blank"><i>Spirituality means stepping back and clearing that channel you believe in. </i>--Gabby Bernstein</a></span></span> <br />
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<b>I PRESENTED THE THREE COMPOSITIONS TO THE DECISION-MAKERS (THREE OF THEM)</b>, who immediately chose the one with the windows while exclaiming how well it fit the message content of and intention for that year's report: it focused on all the pro bono work they do (immigrants, domestic violence, child abuse, etc.), and they needed to attract lawyers to participate in their pro bono program (offering them opportunities to be of service). We had not conversed before the meeting about the theme of the annual report. It truly caused me to pause and begin opening up to more of these experiences.<br />
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<b>WOW, WHAT STORIES WE HAVE TO TELL WHEN OUR EXPERIMENTS LEAD TO SUCCESS</b> (the happy ending). No success? Sure there is in that we have opened ourselves up to more possibilities that may lead to more opportunities for something extraordinary to occur through that channel in which you may <b>come to believe and experience the impossible as possible.</b><br />
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<b>1) Content Inspiration:</b> <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/04/behaviors-content-marketers/" target="_blank">3 Unthinkable Behaviors Behind Content Marketing</a><br />
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<b>2) Content Inspiration:</b> <a href="http://candler.emory.edu/news/blog/2016/05/creativity-as-devotion.html" target="_blank">Creativity As Devotion</a><br />
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<b>3) Content Inspiration:</b> <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/01/john-steinbeck-east-of-eden-journal-letters/" target="_blank">John Steinbeck on Writing, The Crucible of Creativity, and The Mobilizing Power of the Impossible</a><br />
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<b>MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and spiritual support now (and in the future) <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">by exploring the Creativity & Spirituality Magazine</a></b>, and previous <i>Creator's Corner</i> columns: Creator's Corner: <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/how-to-work-and-play-well-with-the-others-to-succeed/" target="_blank">How To Work (And Play) Well With "The Others" To Succeed</a></i>; <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/best-visual-content-storytelling-solutions-via-ae-professionals/" target="_blank"><i>Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals</i></a>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/lies-storytelling-strange-bedfellows-in-shades-of-gray/">Lies & Storytelling: Strange Bedfellows in Shades of Gray; </a><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-has-empathy-intimacy-its-important-to-engage/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important to Engage the Senses)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/get-up-to-speed-on-quality-do-it-yourself-storytelling-on-a-low-budget/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get Up To Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling: On a Low Budget</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/best-storytelling-is-copied-stolen-content-or-the-lighter-shade-of-led-zeppellin/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-joy-is-in-the-story-journey-or-mission-impossible/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Joy is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible)</a>, <a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/1-top-content-creators-corner-best-story-content-grounded-in-our-past-current-life/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-conflict-has-creative-value-learn-how-to-use-it/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conflict Has Creative Value, Learn How To Use It</a></i>; <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/card-decks-and-the-mystic-or-visionary-persona/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Card Decks & the Mystic or Visionary Persona</a></i>, <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/here-comes-play-doh/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Here Comes Play-Doh</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://creatorscorner2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/creators-corner-sacred-geometry-visual-storytelling-content-one-of-top-four-creative-trends/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sacred Geometry–Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016</a></i>.<br />
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Dare to shine, be generous, and love this life.<br />
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Valerie<br />
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<b><i>CREATOR'S CORNER</i> is dedicated to sharing ideas that come to mind after <a href="http://paper.li/ahealingartist/1450963919" target="_blank">reading and selecting articles for <i>The Creativity & Spirituality Magazine</i></a> </b><b><b>(as the editor) </b>that may be useful in a professional or personal capacity. </b>Interest
in creativity and spirituality as content for usage in arts &
entertainment, media communications, marketing and advertising, and as lifestyle choices for businesses, projects and
services (groups that have a way of life that may or may not be included
in their brand identity), can be relevant to anyone anywhere in the
world covering a variety of professions. <br />
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“What
if we consider the possibility that a primary way we can experience the
revelation of God’s mystery is through the process of our own creative
expression?” - See more at:
http://candler.emory.edu/news/blog/2016/05/creativity-as-devotion.html#sthash.EItCwnzQ.dpuf</div>
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“What
if we consider the possibility that a primary way we can experience the
revelation of God’s mystery is through the process of our own creative
expression?” - See more at:
http://candler.emory.edu/news/blog/2016/05/creativity-as-devotion.html#sthash.EItCwnzQ.dpuf</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
“What
if we consider the possibility that a primary way we can experience the
revelation of God’s mystery is through the process of our own creative
expression?” - See more at:
http://candler.emory.edu/news/blog/2016/05/creativity-as-devotion.html#sthash.EItCwnzQ.dpuf</div>
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What
if we consider the possibility that a primary way we can experience the
revelation of God’s mystery is through the process of our own creative
expression?” - See more at:
http://candler.emory.edu/news/blog/2016/05/creativity-as-devotion.html#sthash.EItCwnzQ.dpuf<br />
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
What
if we consider the possibility that a primary way we can experience the
revelation of God’s mystery is through the process of our own creative
expression?” - See more at:
http://candler.emory.edu/news/blog/2016/05/creativity-as-devotion.html#sthash.EItCwnzQ.dpuf<br />
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
What
if we consider the possibility that a primary way we can experience the
revelation of God’s mystery is through the process of our own creative
expression?” - See more at:
http://candler.emory.edu/news/blog/2016/05/creativity-as-devotion.html#sthash.EItCwnzQ.dpuf<br />
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
What
if we consider the possibility that a primary way we can experience the
revelation of God’s mystery is through the process of our own creative
expression?” - See more at:
http://candler.emory.edu/news/blog/2016/05/creativity-as-devotion.html#sthash.EItCwnzQ.dpuf<br />
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
What
if we consider the possibility that a primary way we can experience the
revelation of God’s mystery is through the process of our own creative
expression?” - See more at:
http://candler.emory.edu/news/blog/2016/05/creativity-as-devotion.html#sthash.EItCwnzQ.dpuf</div>
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