ABSTRACT
Creative people bring novel and potentially transformative experiences to a larger population. When the practitioner offers a service to others as professionals do, this is a sharing of knowledge from basic training and the experience of practice over time. In collaborative practice, shared experience invites dialogue and stimulates reflection of different kinds, as does digital practice, where new technologies are central to exploratory, curiosity driven work. By making practitioner voices the primary sources of inspiration and guidance, it has been possible to describe key elements of reflective practice across a wide range of creative fields. Embedding a research ethos in practice offers new ways for self-reflection as practitioners seek greater understanding about what it is to be human through the making and sharing of their creative works. Creative practice is shared enrichment. Sharing stimulates awareness and this leads to reflection that prompts learning through experience – a new state of knowledge.
