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4D Creation Process & Philosophy

"The Four Directions Creation Process is a culturally and socially specific process, holistic in nature, it recognizes the artist as the creation and the performance as the celebration, it recognizes that as humans, we create with our entire being - our physical, our emotional, our intellectual, and our spiritual selves, and therefore it accepts and specifically supports the artist in all four of these areas, it is adapted to the skills and intuitions of artists who have been strongly influenced by the oral tradition, it is a process that nurtures honesty more than accuracy and sharing more than starring, and it is a process that consciously uses personal resources as the key to personal and group creation."

Objectives of Outreach Program

• to continue to open the doors of equal access, equal benefit despite geographic, socio-economic, or cultural uniqueness, by contributing to the development of the arts and economic infrastructure of isolated and remote underserved communities
• to assist isolated artists, youth, and communities in finding ways of self-animating artistic activity towards nurturing a generation of creative, entrepreneurial thinking, engaged citizens with skills, resources, and support networks
• to assist youth in finding and expressing their own unique voice, and to find a forum for their stories, their concerns, and their world perspective
• to share resources that can help aboriginal youth confront and overcome the myriad of challenges they face in life, by building self-esteem, creating positive youth groups, developing relationships from the youth to the service providers and their programs instead of the reverse, and by developing skills that allow them to think through challenging situations alone and in a group in order to be able to decide on the next best step
• to support newly formed groups or clusters by sharing with them possible road-maps to self-sustainability, through local community linkages, regional and provincial linkages, and organizational and personal linkages