PLAY AND CREATIVITY

Fourth, why is play the midwife of creative change?

Almost all students of creativity emphasize the importance of playfulness to the creative process. As Gruber points out, the play ethic permits one to engage in fantasy and to consider fantastic and unreal ideas, which sometimes can be transformed into workable solutions. It also permits fun, humor, and relaxation of internal censors that inhibit expression of challenging, unconventional, far- out ideas. Families, groups, and organizations as well as individuals who have the play ethic are apt to discover novel solutions to the problems and conflicts they experience.