CREATIVE AWARENESS

Contact Name: Ernie Denny

College/Department: SC Botanical Garden
Address: 102 Garden Trail, Clemson, SC 29634

Phone/email: 864-650-8841/ edenny@clemson.edu

Name of Program: Creative Awareness

Age Group of program participants: 25 – 75 (teacher’s etc.)

Is this program ___ in school, or _X__ non-formal

Brief description of program:
Please include: program purpose(s); goals and objectives; internal and external partners; intended outcomes; accomplishments; and funding source(s)

VISION – To steward mindfulness of human participation in the evolution of consciousness.

MISSION – To enable awareness of one’s choices, behaviors, impact and responsibilities.

GOAL – To discover and create opportunities for individuals and collectives to explore perspectives and practices that empower conscious self-development through braiding arts, sciences, Nature and Earth-honoring principles from the world’s wisdom traditions.

OBJECTIVE – To expand and diversify an individual’s conscious inventory of perceptual knowing, thereby, nurturing self-esteem, self-confidence and self-worth in mutual service to one’s larger collectives.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES
¨Nature is constantly creating diversity through interdependence with purpose.
¨The essence of Nature is manifest through perceptual relationship
¨The essence of Human Nature is manifest through imaging, sensing, feeling, thinking, emoting, behavior
and impact.
¨The essence of human perceptual relationship enable humans:
1) the inherent capacity to be conscious of our consciousness
2) the inherent capacity to make conscious choices
3) the inherent capacity to tell stories about our and others’ consciousness and choices
4) the inherent capacity to cultivate consciousness (self-growth) by allowing our curiosity to purposefully and creatively become aware of how storytelling in dynamic relationship with non-verbal behaviors reflects our consciousness and choices:

• Creating is a dynamic of relationship and task
• Life affirming results require that all relationship lines are clear before the task is undertaken.
• Dream without action is fantasy
• Action without dream is oppression.