In her Juicy Journaling e-Program, best-selling author SARK (Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper, Succulent Wild Woman, Make Your Creative Dreams Real) writes:

“Chris Dunmire is an effervescent creative force. Her irreverent style captures and delights me, her expansive creative applications thrill me. Chris's words and art are full of humor, depth, and play. She is an uncommon inventor.” More »

Ongoing: Personalized Creativity Coaching

Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching™ with Chris
One-on-one creativity coaching & mentoring.
Chris works with creative clients through overwhelm, procrastination, perfectionism, and other blocks to their creativity (personal or professional) while holding the space to experience more joy, humor, and ease in their lives and work.

Contact Chris to schedule a sample phone session to explore how creativity coaching can open and enhance your life. See also: Coaching FAQs.

What Creative Dreams Are You Reaching for in 2012?
Plus: I can be YOUR Master Kaizen-Muse™ Creativity Coach!

Everyone needs a 2012 calendar or three, and you're welcome to print the one I've embedded with coaching prompts to help inspire you to your creative best this year. While you're at it, you might reflect or journal around my January prompt: What creative dreams are you reaching for?

I'll share a few of mine for 2012: I intend to spend more time nurturing creativity in children and adults through coursework and coaching. In February and March I'll be facilitating two new hands-on kid's playshops at Womanspace in Rockford, Illinois, and will also be available as a Master Coach to coaches-in-training in the next online/phone Kaizen-Muse™ Creativity Coach Training with Jill Badonsky, MeD, and Robert Maurer, PhD, beginning next month, February 15, 2012.

By the way, if you're planning on taking this KMCC training for personal or professional reasons and want to work with me as your Master Coach (an awesome new addition to this training) you can ask for me when you register online.

Undecided but interested? I'll be happy to share how the training has personally helped me and enhanced my coaching practice. Contact me through Coaching Your Creativity. •

Poetry Pitstop for Kids @ Womanspace
Rockford, Illinois • February 25, 2012

Register Through Womanspace by Feb 23 »

Ages 9 & up. This engaging writing playshop brings kids “outside the box” to experiment with new, innovative ways of expressing their creativity through the art of poetry writing.

Low-pressure traditional and modern forms of poetry (acrostic, haiku, rhyme, magnetic, fortune cookie) will be explored, along with creative expression into artistic and cutting-edge technology containers rolling fast in our digital age. A short diversion into IM and Twitter poetry will definitely get two thumbs up!

Kids: Bring a list of your 25 favorite words.

Date: February 25, 2012 (Register by February 23)
Time: Saturday, 9:30a–Noon
Facilitator: Chris Dunmire
Location: New Dimensions Studio
Fee: Regular $25 Member $20

The Amazing Mirecle33 Creativity Patch™

Get the Creativity Patch | Patch FAQs

It's totally here. Our progressive times allow you to sport a patch on your body to maintain your hormone levels, curb your appetite(s), and cover your boo-boos. Now, thanks to Dunmire Labs, there's no good reason you can't have a slow, steady stream of creativity delivered into your system through the Mirecle33 Creativity Patch™.

Try the Mirecle33 Creativity Patch™ today and see how much it 'miraculously' improves your creative output!

You Can Draw Cartoony Things! by Chris Dunmire

Cartoony Lessons List | Get the Printable Playbook

These sample cartoony lessons are available in my printable playbook, You Can Draw Cartoony Things! A Creative Drawing Book for Everyone.

If you'd like to use these creativity-inspiring lessons for classroom projects or workshop exercises, please purchase and download this high-quality print-a-page e-book, which is dirt-cheap and formatted especially for printing and teaching purposes.

Updated Lessons: How to Draw an Ant

Creative Slush: 19.3% Inspiration, 78.7% Perspiration, 2% Sugar (for the ants).

By Chris Dunmire

Thomas Edison broke a lot of light bulbs trying to figure things out. But he didn't have the Internet, either. Can you imagine what he'd invent today if he could Google stuff? What he'd teach others as an anonymous Wikipedia editor? How much he might collaborate with open minds all over the world through LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook?

We live in exciting times. Our information age with its digital archiving, social networking, and crowd sourcing has brought humans together in the most unprecedented way history has ever known. Ironically, on some levels, we are more united and divided than ever.

Evolution and conscious awakening are present as ever. Take a step back and just observe. It's like we are single streams of consciousness coming together, flowing into a widening river of expansiveness, and emptying into an ocean of grand possibilities. Where will we be in 5, 10, 50, 100 years?

Musings & inner dialogue. Thoughts on creativity. Where inspiration meets perspiration. The keys to creativity. Unlearning. Relearning. Adaptive execution. Comic relief. Brainstorming. Play. Humor. All these and more is what my Creative Slush site-blog is about. It's my online adventure. A virtual workshop of imagination unleashing endless energy — climaxing into a celebration of masterpieces and messes. It's a reflection of how just one human relates to the world through her vision, experiences, and evolution.

Get inspired. Be creative. (And please, don't step on the ants!)