At a time when machines can generate words, images and ideas in seconds, The Creative Moment asks a more urgent question. AI can draft the essay and render the image. What it cannot do is long, risk, wonder, awaken, or be changed by the act of making.
Catherine R. Bell and Russ Hudson reveal the Enneagram as a living system of nine creative energies in every person, and show how to access all nine to deepen awareness, strengthen collaboration and ignite original work. Woven throughout are the voices of artists, poets, musicians, designers, arts leaders and business innovators from around the world.
Inside the book
In The Creative Moment, you will discover
01
Your creative energies
The creative characteristics of each of the nine Enneagram Points, and which energies are most and least available in you.
02
Lessons for growth
What each Point and Instinct teaches about the creative process, personal growth and spiritual development.
03
Tools for balance
Practical tools for bringing each energy into balance and creating healthier, more generative collaborations.
04
From vision to reality
A clear roadmap for using organizational process to move a creative project from vision to reality.
05
All nine, awakened
The possibilities that open up when all nine energies are awakened, integrated and brought into creative problem-solving.
“Creativity in its fullness requires plugging in to a deeper part of our humanity.”
Catherine R. Bell and Russ Hudson
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Paperback, ebook and audiobook | Penguin Random House Publication date: May 18, 2027 | ISBN 9781401997229
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Meet the authors
Catherine R. Bell and Russ Hudson
Catherine R. Bell
Catherine is the founder of The Awakened Company and author of the Nautilus Book Award-winning The Awakened Company. A leading voice in bringing the Enneagram into organizational life, she has spent decades working with leaders, teams and systems where creativity becomes real.
Russ is one of the Enneagram’s original developers and among its most renowned teachers. He brings a lifetime of insight into the spiritual and psychological depths of the nine Enneagram Points.