Episode 32: The Science of Creativity with Tresha Faye Heafner
If you have ever uttered the words,” I’m just not creative!” this episode about the science of creativity is for you. If you know you are a creative being but struggle for consistent time and inspiration to maximize that creativity, this episode is for you.
Tresha Faye Haefner is an award-winning author, creativity coach and speaker. One of the few people to hold a master’s degree in humanistic psychology, with a specialization in creativity studies, Tresha uses research-based methods to help others develop their most authentic creative abilities, both for the sake of artistic expression, and personal well-being. She often tells her classes that she began writing only so she could have the credentials to teach workshops to other innovative writers and poets. Tresha joins the Sustainable Productivity podcast to teach about the science of creativity.
Here is what you can expect in this episode:
- Why science and creativity DO mix.
- What bumpers and guidelines an award winning, published poet uses to regularly produce work.
- Hear Tresha explain how her online writing group is “a gym membership for her muse.”
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Links to Learn More
Links mentioned in this episode of the Sustainable Productivity podcast:
- Sign up for episode emails, weekly essays, and links so you never miss a thing!
- Find all of Tresha’s work plus how to follow her on social media through her website, linked here
- Purchase Tresha’s latest book of poetry, When the Moon Had Antlers at this link
- Tresha mentioned her podcast episode with DeShawn McKinney about his book father forgive me. Listen to that episode about the Value of Deadlines (S5 E49) here.
- Here is a link to a printable version of the “Walk, Don’t Run” poem by Rob Bell
- Books Tresha mentioned in the episode, plus links to purchase while supporting the Sustainable Productivity podcast:
- The Art of Description: World Into Word by Mark Doty | Bookshop.org link
- Nature Felt, But Never Apprehended by Angela Peñaredondo | Bookshop.org link
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Bookshop.org link
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott | Bookshop.org link
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King | Bookshop.org link
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams | Bookshop.org link
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