My Credo
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My Credo Creativity for me is not a state but an attitude of living and surviving. In my books I try to convey and hope to convince that we are partners in our destiny, that without our participation, stating and choosing alternatives, there is no real life. In education as well as in psychotherapy, I first look for the strength in my student or my patient. "I strengthen the strength" in order to give them the force to confront their weakness. One needs courage in order to confront one's weaknesses: it is much easier to hide behind social conventions and walk trotted ways others went than try out individual ways according to one's own potentials with the risk of failure. We are allowed to make mistakes, what we should not do is not learn from them. Failure could be a good beginning of something new. I usually start from the present and insist on looking what is happening "here and now" and only after seeing what is really happening do I ask the causal question WHY? The question "what can I do and what is in me to do about it" is the reformulation of the depressive, causal question "why is this happening to me?" into an active, creative question: it is the new beginning from an infantile-disturbed into a mature and creative being. This change in form and tense of asking the question is the change from the deterministic approach to the security and freedom to choose the creative alternative. I don't see the aim of the therapy in the answers and solutions of the problems. The answer can be relevant today and no longer tomorrow. For me, the most important aspect of education and psychotherapy is the way of asking questions. It is through questioning that the individual looks for himself for his own individual way towards the solution. Thus I prepare the partnership of the student or the patient to develop the creative approach to their life. Looking at the situation from different angles, we can work ourselves up to different alternatives and the ultimate choice of the most relevant alternative to the real situation is the product of intellectual, emotional and social participation of each student or patient. It is a combination of inner abilities with outer challenges, interaction of outer logic and inner fantasy, intellect and emotions according to the social needs of the individual in the society. In the therapeutic process I try to make the patient aware of the fact that there is no framework in which there is complete security. Yet there is no framework in which there are no alternatives, from which we can choose. For "to be" means to choose, to function, to act, to try again and again, without being sure in advance that our choices are good or correct, because what is good and right at the moment is not necessarily good and right tomorrow. The aim of education or treatment is to give the individual the confidence that he has the strength not only to adapt himself to the demands of the environment, but also to go out and meet its challenges. It is the acceptance of the patient's or student's anxiety; to help him to live actively in the present in spite of this anxiety and insecurity - thus preparing him for his creative future.
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