by Dr. Kim | Jan 24, 2020 | Coaching, Creativity
Nurturing your creative side We’ve talked at length about how all humans have capacity for creativity, but it’s important to nurture your creative side. Creativity is teachable, and here are some characteristics (found in psychological research) you can...
by Dr. Kim | Jan 23, 2020 | Creativity, Education, Human Development, Mindfulness, Psychology, Research
There’s creativity in math? Actually, there is–and science and business and… People often think that if they aren’t part of the arts community, they don’t have any business being creative. While creativity is an integral part of the arts,...
by Dr. Kim | Jan 16, 2020 | Creativity, Reslience, Shame
The thief of joy Teddy Roosevelt’s saying is all over the internet and self-help books, but does research support the idea? The answer is yes, but there are things we can do about it. More than 10% of our daily thoughts are based on comparison (Summerville &...
by Dr. Kim | Jan 10, 2020 | Creativity
Steps of the creative process If you’re following my social media series, you’ll see that January’s focus is on cultivating creativity. We’ve talked about how all people have the potential for creativity if they use it. So how does creative...
by Dr. Kim | Dec 10, 2019 | Adolescence, After School, Creativity, Early Childhood Education, Families, Friendship, Holidays, Music
The cognitive and social-emotional impact of music We could all probably pinpoint a certain song that brings back a flood of memories and emotions. And from documentaries such as Alive Inside, and the work of neuroscientists like Kiminobu Sugaya and Ayako Yonetani, we...
by Dr. Kim | Nov 7, 2019 | Creativity, Human Development, Psychology, Reslience
We often put creativity into a box–either you are a creative person or you aren’t. But research shows that creativity doesn’t work that way. We all have the capacity to create, and we can learn to cultivate that creativity throughout our lives....
