.2-Way Creativity: Giving and Learning

Not all of Solving the Impossible’s focus is on business issues. Principal, Ray Buschmann has ensured that there is ample time left to donate time and effort to certain projects which he believes are important to our global social fabric, and captures the magic, wonderment and excitement of creativity. Each has been chosen as a personal interest for Ray to demonstrate what he calls “2-Way Creativity”: social sharing and giving, but also proactively receiving his own continuous learning in these new areas

There are four major areas of his focus:

(a) Using Creativity to Assist Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease Patients: conducting free mini workshops in hospitals and other locations using the principles of “Thinking Differently”, with a high content of fun. This would be in conjunction with local Alzheimer’s Associations. Ray has experienced the positive effects of patients responding to challenging crossword puzzles and other mind challenges, and is convinced that there is a place for a creativity program to also help in this area

(b) Understanding Indigenous Creativity: working without compensation with various indigenous groups, sharing techniques and in return learning new untapped thinking processes. Ray’s extensive travels around the world, and meeting with various local groups, always brings “two-way” enlightenment. He wants to start to document and openly share these new cognitive boundaries.

(c) Transforming Children’s Education Methodology: introducing techniques and practices to make creativity and imagination the pillars of education, rather than the traditional “listen and learn” approach which still pervades most schools. Ray is part of a larger global team of dedicated individuals from all walks of life, who are concerned that a renaissance in education methodology is needed, and many of the business creativity techniques used can be equally applicable to education and advanced learning.

(d) Unlocking the Connection between Creativity and Artists/Painters: developing various new techniques to “get inside an artist’s mind”, and discover/unlock creative thinking pathways never considered before. Although not being an artist himself, Ray has had a fascination with how these remarkable people of genius manage a thinking process that is able to change a blank canvas into a beautiful image that has never been seen before, and in many cases the thought process changes repeatedly. Since civilization has a history of storytelling, and images on cave walls, Ray is convinced that there are major new creativity technique secrets still to be learnt, and they may reside in the minds of our present day artists.