In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, host Cherri Jacobs Pruitt talks with Sara Saltee—Director of Education at the Center for Partnership Systems and founder of the Saltee Academy for Complex Creativity—about reclaiming creativity as an essential force for cultural transformation. Saltee challenges the dominance-driven “productivity ethos,” showing how it suppresses imagination, play, and diverse voices, and offers a “creativity ethos” rooted in reciprocity, joy, and relationality.

Through vivid metaphors, expanded ideas of time, and tools like her cyclical map of the creative process, Saltee invites us to honor the fertile pauses, embrace multiple truths, and see creativity as both personally life-giving and culturally essential. Her message is clear: we can’t produce our way into a better world—we must create it together.

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