I have been sceptical about the relationship between mental health problems and creativity. For the most part - mental health is associated with poverty, difficult life events, and lack of opportunity. How this balances with a romantic view of the artist as a creative genius starving in the attic, dying for his art.
Nonetheless there is a link between creativity, poverty, depression, bipolar temperament
Saturday's workshop discussed creativity and moods. The bigger the moods, the greater creativity as long as you are in control of your mood. MoodMapping helps you manage your moods better, if you can increase your moods and stay in control you can harness your moods to your benefit. Creativity needs an quick mind, an ability to change direction and look at situations from different angles. The ability to handle big moods distinguishes people who keep fighting and push ahead from those who succumb to life's challenges. Being overwhelmed by life events will not help you manage the inevitable crises in your life. Winners need to be able to carry on when everything around them crumbles. However you feel, you have to keep trying and find a way to manage how you feel.
MoodMapping helps people be more objective about how they feel. This process can help you increase the size of your moods as much as it can help reduce them and make themm easier to manage. The trick is to get out of your comfort zones.
The next workshops is about team and moods - if you manage your own mood and if you can manage the moods of your team, you will win. The Apprentice shows time and time again, when you manage the mood of your team, you have a 90% chance of winning the competition
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4 years ago
What a great idea for a workshop! I have used a similar technique when I was a foster carer for kids who have survived by ignoring how they feel unless its angry or scared. And, well, dating wise too have found that many men are out of touch with how they actually feel beyond, happy, mad or scared, the latter they are usually loath to admit to~ have found music, colour and symbology help us to communicate at those times ~:-)
ReplyDeletehi thank you for your comment. I have set up some more workshops for next year and February 5, 8th and 19th
ReplyDeleteyes moodmapping is a great way for people to actually get in touch with how they feel. I originally started using it with the fire service because Firemen liked its visual non-verbal approach, which did not expect them to use words.
I work in a company for a while where people would actually talk about feeling top left bottom right and so on.
I think you are right that colour and symbols can be at least as effective if not more effective at explaining how we feel because more the often than not we do not have the right vocabulary.