Insecurity => creativity?? LO10581

ReDiNapoli@aol.com
Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:14:51 -0400

Replying to LO10539 --

Adding to the ideas re: connectedness and creativity, I agree that certain
group conditions foster creativity. I've been in a group of people
learning improvisational acting together for the last 9 months. Some very
accomplished people can be creative together with seemingly minimal
assistance from the group. Others, less masterful, need more connectedness
and safety around performance paranoia.

One of the fascinating issues @ creativity and groups for me is the
sociometry of creativity. That is, you can look at an individual's place
in the affiliation network of the group as a predictor of how creative he
or she might be. Again, the sociometry often coheres around degrees of
expertise. So, a way of fostering creativity is to make this pattern of
affiliation manifest and then facilitate re-allignment so as to blend the
more and less connected(and creatively masterful) groups. This process can
be very freeing( acknowledging the hierarchy and network pattern can
release of some of the group 'shadow') as well as supportive of new
connections, thereby allowing more of the individuals in the group to act
creatively.

There are, of course, other organizational factors as well as
intra-individual factors re: creativity. But, I'm not feeling creative
enoughto go on.... something about my unsure place in this(on-line)
group's sociometry.

Thanks for listening,
Rich DiNapoli
ReDiNapoli@aol.com

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