Saturday 15 June 2019








A Creative’s Manifesto




Create - simply because








By Michael Opoku-Forfieh





Contents




1   The Now


3   The Past




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?











Writing as a way to express, expose, and expand *awareni.










Little else is simpler and yet more complex. Therapy speak?





There are many routes in we can take.







Paint

                                                                                                                        Sing



                     Design



                    Play
                                                                           Draw

Write

            

Psychotherapize


                      

                                              Educate


                  Walk


                                    
                                 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/.




About the author

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.

He can be found: Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Email, about.me

Let the last words/art/creations be yours, mine, ours

Don’t wait




Perfection is achieved along the way.













Now, begin…