Creativity as a Means for Performance and Psychological Optimisation

Creativity is amongst the differentiating skills leading to success. Are performance environments suited to develop that skill? With slight modifications, they could be. Building on embodied cognition, movement can become a powerful tool to enhance creativity in performers. This presentation covers the main principles underlying the development of creativity through movement. It aims at providing strategies to develop training activities and transform the daily training environment into a creativity-supportive one. Applied and research examples implemented at different performance developmental levels will be associated with every principle. Finally, creativity will not only be considered as a point to reach, but as a means for people to reach their full psychological potential.