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In every vital creative process the first creation is safety.
In the theatre there is a mantra: control your control-ables and let the rest go. Most people with creative blocks are trying to control what they cannot control, like other people’s opinions, and not controlling what they can control, like their own thoughts and opinions. Another uncontrollable that people always try to control is the quality of an outcome; they will sacrifice their health and happiness for the product or the appearance. Mastery comes when the focus is placed on the only thing that truly can be controlled: the quality of the process. Great process will always lead to expansive creativity. So, the two things you CAN control:
• Your thoughts, opinions and perceptions.
• The creation of a quality process.
The two things you CAN’T control:
• Other people’s thoughts, opinions, and perceptions.
• An outcome or result.
Creating safe space begins with controlling your control-ables and letting the rest go. Ultimately this is a process of 1) drawing boundaries and learning to hold them, and 2) choosing where to place your focus and energy. Valuing your opinion over the opinions of others and learning to create a process as opposed to push for a result is core to a generative creative process and how you establish safety within yourself.
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The Direction of Intention 
We as an educational system have gotten lost in trying to control the outcome of student learning (the product of test scores) instead of the quality of the process of learning. Good stuff.