The Co-Creator's Charm
I drafted this on the flight over to Atlanta, and I'm intending to read it at the end of my talk tomorrow. The talk is called "The Creative's Curse," about how our creative ideas always get shot down by unwanted stakeholder feedback (and how to break that cycle). I'll be walking people though stories and examples of a new frame being possible: ways to co-create and collaborate and seek involvement on purpose, not by accident.
The opposite of a curse is what? It could be a blessing, but I asked Kendra for some help referencing the Harry Potter universe, to see if we can land on a more accessible term. She suggested "charm" — the type of spell that is a positive enchantment.
(adrienne maree brown, in her book Emergent Strategy, uses the idea of 'spells' to refer to any recipe or tool to help with facilitating a new direction.)
(Also, shout-out to my friend Zach for the phrasing in the second-to-last line in this particular composition. A post-shower musing he texted me last week wormed its…
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