Your Creative
Vital Signs
Just as a doctor measures blood pressure, heart rate, and oxygen levels to assess physical health, the Creative Lifestyle framework measures six vital signs of creative health. This 6-question assessment takes 3 minutes and gives you a personalised score with specific cooperative economy recommendations.
Based on Grainger & Barnes (2006) · Csikszentmihalyi (1996) · Damasio (2003) · Fredrickson (2003) · Dr. Chidi Ngwaba — Lifestyle Medicine
How often do you experience a state of deep creative absorption — where time disappears and you are fully immersed in making, designing, teaching, or building something?
How safe do you feel to take creative risks, share unconventional ideas, or try new approaches in your professional environment without fear of judgment or punishment?
How often do you engage in genuinely collaborative creative work with other teachers — co-designing, co-creating, or building something together that neither of you could have made alone?
How well does your daily lifestyle — your movement, nutrition, sleep, and relationship with nature — support the neurobiological conditions your creative mind needs to function at its best?
How clearly connected do you feel to a larger purpose — a sense that your creative work as a teacher is contributing to something that genuinely matters beyond the classroom walls?
How consistently do you experience genuine neurobiological restoration — not just sleep, but the kind of deep rest, stillness, and recovery that allows your creative capacity to regenerate?