<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Thanks Diane - I wrote about Maslow and creativity years ago in my doctoral qualifying exams, but you've now piqued my curiosity to go back and look at more -</DIV>
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<DIV>Doug:</DIV>
<DIV>happy, creative people who have experienced that creativity in action, especially if in community, ARE going to be more 'beautiful' - if you could as beauty a visage and demeanor expressive of peace, self-expression and happiness.<BR><BR>LEVEL GREEN - fostering sustainable community through collaborative initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old democratic spirit of the Danish Folk School. 1519 Slaterville Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 339-9472<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 12/1/08, douglas germann <I><76066.515@compuserve.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: douglas germann <76066.515@compuserve.com><BR>Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Discoveries in Maslow<BR>To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR>Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 10:55 PM<BR><BR><PRE>Diane and Patricia--
Thanks. Yes, that does seem to be the thrust of this book which I think
was published posthumously (that's a curious word, yes? After humous,
after being human, maybe even when forever humorous!), that creativity
is a strong thrust for him, perhaps prime among the B-values he lists.
Now what about the inviting question: Are you more beautiful after open
space? <grin>
:- Doug.
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 14:32 -0500, Diane Brandon wrote:
> If you take a look at the Appendices (I think it's B) in Religion,
> Values, and Peak Experiences, you'll see a list of B-values (values of
> Being) that Maslow suggested go at the top of the hierarchy of needs
> pyramid. Creativity is one of the B-values, but there are a list of
> perhaps 15-20 of them there. Good stuff!
>
>
> Diane Brandon
> www.kitchentableconsulting.net
>
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Patricia Haines wrote:
>
> > After Maslow's death his wife published what he'd been
working on -
> > which was a final stage for adult development where CREATIVITY is
> > the peak need. This stage is seldom if ever mentioned in works on
> > Maslow, but it seems one that we all could use at this challenging
> > time in history - and it certainly works for what OS fosters in
> > participants! Collective creativity and responsibility -
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 12/1/08, douglas germann <76066.515@compuserve.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > From: douglas germann <76066.515@compuserve.com>
> > Subject: [OSLIST] Discoveries in Maslow
> > To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> > Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 12:36 PM
> >
> > Hi--
> >
> > For the last few days I have been reading Maslow and finding
a lot of
> > insights into OST. From today's reading:
> >
> > Pilot experiment: Unquantified observation
from
> > two-year-long experiments with group therapy:
both the
> > college boys and the college girls in general
looked
> > more beautiful or handsome both to me and to
the
> > participants themselves (and actually became
more
> > beautiful, attractive as measured by the
judgment of
> > strangers) because of increased self-love and
> > self-respect and increased pleasure in
pleasing the
> > group members (out of increased love for
them). In
> > general, if we stress the uncovering aspect
of therapy,
> > then whatever it reveals was there already in
some
> > sense. Therefore, whatever emerges or is
revealed by
> > uncovering therapy is very likely to be
constitutionally
> > or temperamentally or genetically intrinsic
to the
> > organism;i.e., its essence, its deepest
reality, is
> > biologically given. Abraham H. Maslow, The
Farther
> > Reaches of Human Nature, p 139
> >
> > Wow! This might explain some of what happens in OST:
increased self
> > respect leading to better ideas, better perhaps in the sense
of
> > simplicity, elegance, beauty. OS leads to beautiful people:
how's that
> > for high performance?
> >
> > Have you noticed anything akin to this?
> >
> > What is the "uncovering aspect" in opening space?
> >
> > :- Doug.
> >
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