A Creative’s Manifesto
Create - simply
because
By Michael Opoku-Forfieh
Contents
About Michael Opoku-Forfieh
The Now
The aim then, is
about sharing experience
I am a
psychotherapist,
I recognise now that
really I am an
Artist
Something that I always dreamed of becoming
My paint - the human experience
The canvas – life
My now is filled with collaborating
amongst
Clients,
Students,
Colleagues and Supervisees
For growth, learning, purpose and fulfilment
And your now?
Peering beyond
Daring the unknown
Trusting
that journeying is
The
gift once sought
The
knowing about
Unity of self, offers release
Rewind
the spool
The
release was necessary for learning
Gather
to review, revise, plot anew.
The experience of being
Human
A Londoner,
A citizen of the
world is mine.
What is yours?
Sharing as an artist is to be my
journey.
Will you?
Can you?
Little else is simpler and yet more complex. Therapy speak?
There are many routes in we can take.
Paint
Sing
Design
Draw
Write
Write
Psychotherapize
Educate
Engineer
Listen Love
Dance
Socialise
Meditate
Climb
Ride
Run
The route out – One
Between then and now choose to Live
Putting pen marks
around ideas
Redrawing resilience
and make arrow headed
links to
everything else.
The invitation
My invitation for you, to you…
Create
Inspire self, inspire another, inspire
others like fire – warm with light. Quick. Captivating.
Warming.
Dangerous.
Memories can drive thought and choice and action and
behaviour.
Choose wisely.
Use intellect to determine
Best.
Listen - the heart speaks a lot
Know, take heed and follow
Will you?
Can you?
Writing to support growth,
to share insights,
to enable:
you,
me,
us,
to evaluate critically - all that is encountered, witnessed
and felt...
Honestly
Artfully
Let
go
The
first manifesto,
Offering the promise of change.
I doubt it to be the last ever
penned.
An invitation…?
Acknowledgements
Arike Jeff
Goins
Ian Thompson Clare Warner
Charlotte Forfieh Heather
Richards
Jamil Ali Anne
Willoughby
N G Celia
Valiente Aguado
Emmanouela Kladouchou Dionne
Sutherland-Davies
Victoria Kelly Irvin Yalom
Daniel Kahneman Joshua
Foer
Professor Steve Peters
Inviting thought and inspiration.
All…
Sharing
I am happy for you to share this
manifesto in any way that you would like. My only ask, is that the information in
this manifesto not change or be sold in anyway.
I have followed Jeff Goins advice to
arrive at this auspicious point. Join him at https://goinswriter.com/resources/.
Michael
Opoku-Forfieh is a Counsellor/Psychotherapist/teacher, supervisor, lecturer,
writer, thinker, Artist. He trained as an integrative counsellor over 10 years
ago and views therapy as a bridging link to becoming…
He
lives in South East London with his wife and their 2 children, and
every once in a while can be seen climbing off of his soap box after discussing:
lives affected by mental illness, criminal justice, education, and the magic of
therapy.
Let
the last words/art/creations be yours, mine, ours
Don’t
wait
Perfection
is achieved along the way.
Now, begin…