ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses an episode of normal creativity in children and explores the modes of experience that mark creativity and indeed support it: Curiosity, Versatility, and Presence. It then examines how such modes of experience work in activating and sustaining the creative processes, and how they can remain and grow steadily as constant personality traits. Such traits are present not only in artists or scientists, serving them for discovery and realisation, but even in ordinary people, to whom they may mean an attitude in turning towards the world and towards themselves. Training is the first contact with the specific features of the various artistic languages. In Arts Therapies, therefore, the artistic process fosters and sustains creativity, being a constant training for the attitudes of which creativity is made. The creative attitude influences way of turning towards both the internal world and the external one, and of connecting them.
