Kickstart Creativity 50 Prompted Cards to Spark Inspiration

Bust through creative blocks and ignite innovative problem-solving with this toolkit for creative experimentation featuring 50 prompt cards.

What if finding inspiration was merely a matter of gazing through a different lens or trying out a new tool? Kickstart Creativity is a deck of 50 cards—each with a creative exercise—designed to prompt unexpected ways of thinking.

At the start of a personal challenge or work project, draw three cards from this deck and reflect on how the spread relates to your current situation. Choose an action card to learn a new skill, a perspective card to see the world in a novel way, and an intention card to influence more meaningful and mindful choices.

Kickstart Creativity can be used by individuals or by groups of teachers, students, co-workers, and other collaborators as an antidote to creative block. With insights from trailblazing rule-breakers and cultural philosophies from bygone eras, Kickstart Creativity will shift your attention away from the pressure of productivity and toward the path to creative freedom.

Bonnie Kathryn Smith Whitehouse Ph.D. is a professor of English at Belmont University and the author of Afoot and Lighthearted: A Journal for Mindful Walking. She specializes in the flourishing field of writing studies, where she gives writers opportunities for freedom, authenticity, and discovery by emphasizing process and experimentation over product. Bonnie seeks to help others cultivate creativity, well-being, and peace by prompting them to engage thoughtfully and contemplatively with themselves, the natural world, and the technologies that shape our lives.