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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What Exactly Happens When You Have A Creative Idea
See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights What is a creative idea? A mystical gift from your God? The discovery of something new? A profound insight of almost spiritual proportions? An irritant to rational thinking? A creative idea can be any of these things. Marci Segal, MS‘s insight: Thanks to [...]
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What people want from a creativity conference then: is it the same now?
Went through old files over the weekend. Found feedback comments from a 1981 creativity conference I participated in as a volunteer leader. Do you think this is what people want from creativity conferences today, a generation later? An incredibly enriching experience. Answered many questions and created new ones. Challenged my mind, body and spirit and [...]
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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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When are people most likely to express their creativity?
A source of inspiration every Sunday morning is the blog BrainPickings by Maria Popova. Today’s find is the article, The Science of Our Optimism Bias and the Life Cycle of Happiness, on the subject of Tali Sharot’s research presented at TED. “Optimism starts with what may be the most extraordinary of human talents: mental time [...]
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Creativity Mindset Formula
Thinking through yesterday’s post, I was reminded of the formula Dr. Ruth Noller integrated into her teachings when I was one of her undergrads. C=ƒa {K I E} Creativity equals the function of an attitude multiplied by knowledge, imagination and evaluation. Makes sense, no? Here are two thought journeys for you. What outcomes might you [...]
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Stanford Crash Course on Creativity – Mastering a Creative Mindset – Week 8 – and Review
This last class ended the 8-week online program with helpful creativity reminders, each a two-second soundbite. Pithy statements about innovation If anything can go wrong, fix it! Abandon paths so success can follow (leave behind what is no longer working, stick with your strengths) Every failure reveals a truth about the world Unexpected results are [...]
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