Give us half a chance and every one of us has a roaming imagination:

‘We belong on the earth.  The rhythm of the clay and its seasons sing within your heart. … Even though your body is always bound to one place, your mind is a relentless voyager.’*

‘When it comes to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.’**

There are places to work which recognise the reality of Human imagination, places in which engagement and creativity increase exponentially.

There are also places where the message is, “All we want you to do is this one thing, unquestionably – it’s what we pay you for.”

When people are not valued for who they are and what they bring, they are de-energised and disengage.  The reverse of this sees connection being formed – we’re in this together:

‘Connection is the energy that is created between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued, when they give and receive without judgement.’^

Martin Seligman goes as far as to say, out of his research, helping another person ‘produces the single most reliable momentary increase in wellbeing of any exercise we have tested.’^^

No-one needs permission to help and support another, every day being an opportunity to flex imagination: subversive alacrity.

(*From John O’Donohue’s Eternal Echoes.)
(**From Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc..)
(^From Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly.)
(^^From Martin Seligman’s Flourish.)