Know Thyself Creativity
I’m getting ready to present a master class at a great conference next week – fresh materials for facilitators so they can know their own style and expect the style needs of others to inform their session design and delivery. The purpose? To grow the confidence of group facilitators to be inspiring and engaging when [...]
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World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-25 – what a week that was!
Greetings all, Likely you are aware of my involvement with World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21, (WCIW) as its founder in 2001 and steward. Each year around this time my attention goes 100% (and then some friends would say) to support the energy, and shake the bushes so that everyone on the planet feels [...]
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The influence of time on creativity – great short video – shows time is a creativity tool
It’s worth the two minutes to see the effect of time on creativity. If you let it, this video can spark new thinking about why you might want to encourage, support, and welcome creativity and creativity thinking day-to-day wherever you are. Nice thought piece for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 -21. Maybe by [...]
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Creativity and the Brain: Research and Insights
See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights Creativity and the Brain – “We were born to create! In fact, before we were born, we, with the help of our mothers, exerted a significant amount of energy in creating neural connections among neurons (the brain’s major brain cells). These connections created a complex brain system, [...]
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Toolkit for Collective Action by frog Take a look during #WCIW?
Simple, downloadable toolkit for community groups to make something happen. I like it for it’s simplicity. Take a look. Maybe something to use as a support for your World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21 celebration? Even just a wee read through… See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights Today, frog is pleased to [...]
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Fun Failure: How to Make Learning Irresistible | MindShift
See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning InsightsFailure is a positive act of creativity,” Katie Salen said. Scientists, artists, engineers, and even entrepreneurs can advance their learning through having fun.See on blogs.kqed.org Marci Segal, MS. Creativity and Change Leadership. Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
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Listen to the Kids….
Thanks again to Women in Science and Engineering who invited me to present at their 2013 conference Imagine, Innovate, Inspire held at the University of Toronto this weekend. My 90-minute interactive keynote: Language to Leverage Creativity: Prepare to Nuance your Networking was fashioned so participants would: learn something new that would help them get to [...]
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Does Brainstorming for Innovation Work? Maybe not… when you consider personality style
“Fresh ideas come when your brain is relaxed and engaged in something other than the particular problem you’re embroiled in… This is the polar opposite of what happens in brainstorming sessions. Long showers, soaks in a tub, long walks, or doing chores are frequently when those “synapses” that find alternative solutions to a problem [...]
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Where to look for new ideas – insight from Leonard Cohen
The Future is an album by Canadian musician Leonard Cohen. His song, Anthem, provides a strong metaphor for insights into where to look for new ideas. Anthem The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. [...]
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Sweating Your Way to Creativity
Creativity: The ability to bring together disparate ideas in new and useful combinations. You like? I read it in a review of Christopher Bergland’s The Athlete’s Way: Sweat and the Biology of Bliss in Psychology Today. He makes good points about the benefit of ‘sweat equity’ (ouch the pun!) in the creative process. Albert [...]
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