Can Creativity Coaching help answer Abraham Maslow’s question?
The renowned American psychologist argued that “we have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.” Maslow was not suggesting that we can all be great artists, musicians or writers, but he was saying that we can all develop our innate skills to enable more and better creative output. So what holds us back? Maslow went on to ask: “Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled?” But at Creative Steps we don’t like to dwell on this question: rather than focus on what isn’t working we like to celebrate what is working. For sure, we want to know why everyone isn’t producing quality creative content that is enriching lives; their own and those of their loved ones. But rather than focussing on why we are held back, let’s ask a different question: Can you coach yourself to increasing creativity? Already we begin to feel more positive. And when we discover that, yes, of course you can coach yourself to incre
