Creative Lives After School Program

Creative Lives, a solutions-based team of educators helping children to increase well-being, resilience and to fulfill their creative potential. Creative Lives programs offer simple but powerful tools for change, supporting school communities, teachers and parents in attending to the creative well-being of children. The arts, the natural world, improvisation, the creative spirit within each child--these rich arenas provide resources for learning that fuel children’s individual passions and reveal the profound interconnections we share. Teachers grasp our techniques quickly and find they can be used in countless ways to improvise and innovate new lessons for their students. In turn, children cultivate deep listening, deep looking, and the knowledge of themselves they require in order to help our evolution from the age of information to an age of transformation. The project's innovative curricula for children and teachers includes activities in the arts and improvisation, new science, meditation (quieting the mind, developing focus and deep listening), and cultivates appreciation of our diversity and our interconnections with each other and the natural world. Direct experience, attention to individual needs and passions, interconnection with a larger whole: Creative Lives holds these to be key ingredients for profound personal and social change.