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Context for Creativity: Listening to Voices, Allowing a Pause
Author(s) -
TAVALIN FERN
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/j.2162-6057.1995.tb00741.x
Subject(s) - creativity , active listening , storytelling , context (archaeology) , parallels , interpersonal communication , psychology , expression (computer science) , creativity technique , narrative , social psychology , communication , computer science , art , literature , history , engineering , mechanical engineering , archaeology , programming language
Creativity occurs within a social context. As such, it is important to consider the environments which foster creative growth. Based on the observations of a small group of interpersonal women, the author describes some of the conditions which proved successful in facilitating the emergence of personal voice in writing. Many parallels surfaced between the appearance of voice in writing and the topic of creativity in general. Certain deeply felt aspects of creativity are difficult to uncover when the methods themselves do not include room for personal expression and response. Storytelling with group response might be a potential resource as yet undeveloped in creativity research.