Creativity brings joy, wonder, efficiency, excitement, and pleasure into our lives. Although creativity can also be malevolent (see, e.g., Cropley et al., Creat Res J 20(2):105-115, 2008), for the most part creativity makes life better, and most of us would like to have and to experience more of it. Nurturing creativity is therefore something that many of us would like to do. We would like to help our students, our colleagues, our employees (or employers), and of course ourselves be more creative. [For the complete volume, "Creative Contradictions in Education: Cross Disciplinary Paradoxes and Perspectives. Creativity Theory and Action in Education. Volume 1," see ED612145.]