Our art collective used to make decisions by consensus but now we're eight people and every creative choice becomes this exhausting process where we workshop everything to death. The work that comes out feels like it was designed by committee and none of us are excited about what we're making anymore, but we don't know how else to honor everyone's input.
More people experience this than they realize.
The democratic ideals that formed the group have become a creative constraint that produces work no individual member truly believes in.
“Where Are You with Creativity as spiritual practice?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.