{"id":74,"date":"2015-12-15T17:41:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.248.70\/~kristyp1\/?p=74"},"modified":"2015-12-15T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:46:28","slug":"creative-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Creative Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been noticing lately, the power of creativity to bring people together. \u00a0Strangers, neighbors, coworkers and classmates. \u00a0There is a calmless that comes over people when they are creating that allows them to ease into conversation, sit comfortably next to strangers, connect at a deep level of joy and to sit back and relax while taking in the full picture and deciding what their intuition thinks comes next in the process.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me think of all the wonderful applications of this occurance:<\/p>\n<p>I imagine&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0town meetings where residents create models or drawings of their unique visions for their town<\/li>\n<li>School committee gatherings of administrators beginning with meditative drawing<\/li>\n<li>College campuses requiring a class in art Journaling and allowing students to design their dorm rooms with paint and their own furnishings<\/li>\n<li>Daily art classes in hospitals, homeless shelters and rehabilitation centers<\/li>\n<li>Offices that begin every day with group exercise followed by group creations on whiteboards, in sand or with legos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I believe that more art would make great minds greater, prolong lives and bring hope and joy to people&#8217;s work and lives, open up possibilities we never dreamed before. \u00a0The power of creativity to break down boundaries and open new doors to the emerging future, a new future full of change and growth and goodness is unquestionably.<\/p>\n<p>Start creating more and let it all in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been noticing lately, the power of creativity to bring people together. \u00a0Strangers, neighbors, coworkers and classmates. \u00a0There is a calmless that comes over people when they are creating that allows them to ease into conversation, sit comfortably next to strangers, connect at a deep level of joy and to sit back and relax&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151215_093810-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristypace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}