Creativity is Resilience Work

You’ll hear me say this on repeat. 

Resilience is a built competency with skills, content knowledge, behaviors, practices, and mindsets. It’s about your body’s felt sensations, nervous system and emotions, mindset, and the stories you tell yourself. It’s how all of those pieces either inform your behaviors in a reactive way or in an intentional, responsive, slowed down way.

Okay. That's my soapbox foundation. 

Now add: Regular creativity work regenerates your resilience and grows your window of tolerance for uncertainty and change. 

My one-on-one mentorship coaching clients already have a foundation of resilient skills. So what's the next level as a leader, an educator, a change agent, and as a human who wants to feel like they're able to contribute a bigger impact without overing and burning out and resting out? 

Cultivating your creativity process through routines and habits because creativity is a critical action for regenerative resilience from a cognitive perspective. 

Creativity and resilience are about improving your flexibility and neuroplasticity for self-regulation. It’s about growing your window of tolerance and developing tools to shift your emotions and nervous system out of hyper- and hypo-arousal states. 

Creativity works out of the right brain, and recent neuroscience research shows a link between creativity and the prefrontal cortex as well. Guess what else the prefrontal does! It regulates emotions and self-reflection and is connected to problem solving. Mind blown. 

A regular practice then of creativity (whatever that means for you, and trust me, I’ve learned it is a HUGE range of play) will help you become a more resilient leader.

How are you cultivating your regular creative practice?

Not sure where to start or don't feel like you're creative? Email me, and I'll send you some ideas and baby steps for getting started.