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What is Creative Intelligence?

Creative Intelligence is the ability to understand the whole picture—enabling you to create, navigate, or adapt what is needed. It is the integrated intelligence of mind and body, a concept that was erased when philosophy embraced Cartesian Dualism.

Creatives require greater depth and breadth to grasp what others accept without question. We don’t settle for understanding until a certain threshold of clarity is met. This approach feels healthy and normal, yet our systems discourage and pathologize it.

Creatives don’t struggle to understand our systems; their dysfunction is clear. The impasse we face is that we cannot fix these systems because we overvalue narrow, detail-focused perspectives. These perspectives cannot address big-picture fractures. Meanwhile, the voices that could offer solutions are pushed to the margins, where they lack the power to be heard.

Whole picture seeing creatives are not valued in our systems despite the system's clear messages they need them. So myself and other creatives have joined up to create a place where they are valued and that value is understood and cultivated.

That place is called the Creative Intelligence Institute of Canada. www.CreativeIntelligenceInstitute.ca

A place where we are researching, cultivating and creating a new understanding about what our native intelligence really is. If you are a creative consider joining our creative collective. It's free to join and connect with other creatives.

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