This square design features a purple, orange, and yellow background to set of a rectangular design by Jeffrey St. Clair. It shows a square design that is mostly orange, with purple, yellow, and black elements. Words surround it. They say: The seven principles: Kuumba: Creativity. To use our creative energies toward creating a vibrant community.”
Creative healing

Creative healing

The sixth day of Kwanzaa

This one is especially near to my heart: the principle of Kuumba, creativity! The only way to build a vibrant community is through the creative devotion of the people within it. Is there any community that could not benefit from some creative healing?

Just as the arts can help revive a dying neighborhood, so can applying creative energy build positive bridges of hope, where before there were only walls of separation. Our whole country desperately needs this kind of creative healing.

What better, more hopeful task can we set ourselves upon than that, this New Year’s Eve?

This square design features a purple, orange, and yellow background to set of a rectangular design by Jeffrey St. Clair. It shows a square design that is mostly orange, with purple, yellow, and black elements. Words surround it. They say: The seven principles: Kuumba: Creativity. To use our creative energies toward creating a vibrant community.”
Image by, and courtesy of, Jeffrey St. Clair. See Credits below.

Creativity Transcends Communities and Careers

There are very few careers or communities that cannot be improved with creativity. It is the driving force of innovation, the power that fuels important breakthroughs. Applied creativity gives us the capability to overcome obstacles and develop greater vision.

And where systems or communities are broken, creative healing is the force that builds them back best. We become “stronger in the broken places” when we harness our creativity for good.

On a square blue and gray background, this vertical design has a top and bottom section. On the bottom is a photo of Mae C. Jemison, the first African American Woman Astronaut, in the microgravity environment of the International space Station. She smiles at the viewer/camera while floating in midair, wearing dark blue pants and a yellow long-sleeved shirt with a NASA patch on it, surrounded by wires and technical gear. Above the photo, on a dark blue background, the words say, “Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. -Mae C. Jemison, First African American Woman Astronaut. Students at the Center Hub / Black History Month.”
Quote-image courtesy of Students at the Center Hub.

Creative Healing Scales Up

From personal improvement to mending conflicts in our communities to resolving divisions on the national or international stage, creative healing empowers us.

This square design has a green and red background to set off a vertical rectangular design by Emily Poe Crawford, Em Dash Paper. It is an artistic calligraphy project in green and red on a white background that says, “Devote yourself to your community around you & devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose & meaning. -Mitch Albom.”
Design by Emily Poe Crawford, of the Em Dash Paper, courtesy of OhMyHandmade.com. See Credits below.

Where can you employ creative healing in your life and world today?

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Many thanks to Jeffrey St. Clair via LinkedIn’s SlideShare, for the nicely designed symbol image and “seven principles” slide, to Students at the Center Hub for the Mae C. Jemison quote, and to designer Emily Poe Crawford of the Em Dash Paper and OhMyHandmade.com for the Mitch Albom quote.

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