Through the process of creative recycling we draw parallels with life lessons and the importance of rebuilding, learning and mending to help develop positive mental health attitudes create opportunities for social interaction and provide support through sign posting to specialist services. The self-reliant lifestyle can be consistent with either the left or the right, but the cultural creatives I know are disgusted with all current political choices.

She is the author of numerous articles in psychology and coauthor of the bestselling Feminine Face of God . Overall, this gives the book an optimistic feel of how we all may respond to similar destructive situations that we encounter.The values of the Cultural Creatives could be the key to creating the transformation we desire, values such as seeing nature as sacred, viewing relationships as important, and focusing less on material success. They see spirituality and love as a vital component of life and always look for the good qualities in all people. These are individuals who can meld the best of traditionalism and modernism to create a new synthesis, having a cognitive style based on synthesizing varied information from many sources into a big picture.

Officials of the European Union, hearing of the numbers of Cultural Creatives in the United States, launched a related survey in each of their fifteen countries in September 1997. It describes the three main categories of people in the Western world: the Moderns, the Traditionals, and the newly-emergent Cultural Creatives. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The modern mainstream, the Moderns, are still running the show after 500 years, and "standing pat"; accepting the system and doing the best they can with the Modern worldview; hanging in there (often unwilling or unable to change), in the face of increasing dysfunction.In 2008, there was much discussion in the Western media on the 'creative economy' and the importance of the ' creative class'. Ray and Anderson claim to have found 50 million adult Americans (slightly over one quarter of the adult population) can now be identified as belonging to this group. Contemptuous of the glittery arenas of politics, advertising, entertainment, multinational business and high finance.