Reflections

  • Creative Aging Symposium Recap: Questions for Meaningful Exploration

    by Creative Spark
    A guest post by Heidi Wagner, an incredible photographer and activist, the founder of The Passions Project. Heidi reflects on Creative Spark's 2023...
    Posted in creative aging symposium

  • Pause for Poetry: Inspiration & Prompts

    by Creative Spark
    A guest post by Heidi Wagner, an incredible photographer and activist, the founder of The Passions Project. Heidi reflects on Creative Spark's 2023...

  • Hot Button Topic

    by Jessica McCracken
    Last month, Creative Spark presented Creating Joy at Work with the American Society on Aging conference. The room was packed, it was amazing. Every...

  • Pause for Play: Poetry Prompts

    by Creative Spark
    In our annual Creative Aging Symposium, Jessica McCracken led Pause for Play, where we explored playful poetry prompts for a perspective shift. (Ho...

  • Setting Resolutions? Let's try wellbeing instead.

    by Jessica McCracken
    A new year brings with it pressure to set resolutions, which often lead to disappointment in ourselves. Instead of setting a resolution, let's sup...
    Posted in wellbeing

  • Technology as a Tool, Not an Intervention

    by Jessica McCracken
    *Jetsons meme, unknown author “Those of us who are willing to rumble with vulnerability will not be threatened by the rise of the machines, becaus...

  • Embracing the Creative Pause

    by Katie Wade
    The past year, I've thought a lot about 'the pause' as part of creativity. It's easy to judge ourselves when we aren't in the active development pa...

  • Navigating with a Joy Compass

    by Jessica McCracken
    “What if instead of seeing aging as something to defeat and conquer, we were to embrace what gets better with age, and work to amplify these joys w...

  • Movement is Emotion

    by Jessica McCracken
    “Movement is emotion,” Alice shared as I traced her outstretched arm. She wanted a gesture that expressed joy in motion. Alice has been moving her...

  • A Virtual Living Room

    by Creative Spark
    By guest blogger, SharonM “Auntie Afrika” "The one thing that continues to resonate with me from the Creative Aging Symposium 2022 was the sense of...

  • Reflections on Blue

    by Creative Spark
    From Gayle Wanamaker Gayle wrote this poetic response to the Creative Aging Symposium 2022, where jazz composer and pianist Tammy Hall performed he...

  • A Dash of Chaos as an Antidote to Apathy

    by Jessica McCracken
    I once attended a training on care partnerships and memory loss where the trainer referred to the image of a skipping record. The idea was - when s...