Creativity Conference, London
27th June 2025
Vue Cinema, Piccadilly,
I’m involved in two presentations at this first UK flowering of the Creativity Conference *
Wonder, Enchantment and Landscape: essentially, saying to people: let things go, abandon preconceptions and go for a walk: wherever: urban park, inner city street and plane tree square, mountain glen or roadside verge: just go and look and listen and breathe yourself into the richness of moss and stone and water and an excitement of dandelions….1 way of keeping creativity going: let the world have a conversation with you (presentations are only 9 minute long!)
Then there is a panel on storytelling:
Our starting point might be a few questions….but who knows where this will go!
"why do we/you tell stories and maybe how do you use them?"
"what sort of stories do you use?"
"what do you hope the stories you use will do for the people who read/listen/experience them", which isn't necessarily the same as #1 above
The answers to these are not likely to be discrete and starting at any one of them will bring in the others. I happily work across the spectrum of stories from ancient myth to 'just 5 minutes ago' craziness....maybe overall, for me there is the thought
"don't just say we use stories, it is good to think about why we use them and what we hope they can do."
Following up the conference
if it seems appropriate, I’ll post my powerpoint on google drive and add a link here
finding my books:
3 main books around just now
Baba Yaga: tales of an old witch - a small booklet
Waiting for the Snow: my latest collection of poems
Old Stone and Ancient Bones: an earlier collection of poems (get through my website)
Sacred Animals: a manual for building a creative, personal spiritual relationship with the world around us
(links will take you to ebay pages for books...you could also visit my website's shop page)
The Creativity Conference is a global meeting of minds to explore the essence of creativity. We invite incredible creative speakers to share the wisdom they have gained from successful projects - and our definition for 'Creativity' is very particular: 'Any intentional decision'.
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