Creative Culture: Workshop 1: We Are All Creatives
“Creativity is on the rise as a top skill leaders will need to face the increasingly complex challenges the future has in store for them. Creativity, like any other leadership skill, can be learned and practiced.” ”
Main Point: Every human is creative. It is innately inside of us.
Time Break Down:
Lesson Overview – 5 minutes
Video – 10 Minutes
Discussion – 10 minutes
Exercise – 30 minutes
Assessment – 5 minutes
Lesson Overview:
What if I told you that you have a powerful tool inside of you that you are not utilizing. In this workshop we are going to talk about debunking the creative myth. “The myth that far too many people share. That to be creative you need to be an artist. The truth is we have far more creative potential waiting to be tapped” (Kelley & Kelley, 2013 p. 12).
“Strengthening your creative confidence. This is a muscle that can be strengthened and nurtured through effort and experience. ”
“We forget that back in kindergarten, we were all creative. We all played and experimented and tried out weird things without fear or shame. We didn’t know enough not to. The fear of social rejection is something we learned as we got older. And that’s why its possible to regain our creative abilities so swiftly and powerfully, even decades later” (Kelley and Kelley p. 6).
Permissions: To fail. Permission to explore.
Boundaries: Don’t say judgmental statements like ‘That doesn’t look like xyz’.
Vocabulary: Creative Confidence: The ability to come up with new ideas and try them out.
Video: A graphic video about education system Ted Talk by Ken Robinson, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”
Video Discussion:
1. What stood out to you the most about this film?
2. Do you believe that literacy and creativity should be treated with the same status?
3. Where in your life do you see a creative deficit?
4. Where do you find a creative flourishing?
5. Where would you like to see more creative confidence in your story?
CREATIVE EXERCISES
1. You can draw.
2. Post-It Note Sequencing:
a. Use six Post-It notes and assemble them in a line.
b. This will create a comic strip effect.
c. Draw your morning routine (5 minutes). Do not use words only shapes.
d. When everyone is finished walk around the room and notices similarities and differences in each of the routines (5 minutes).
3. Square Exercise: Self understanding
a. Outside the square, draw how other people see you (5 minutes).
b. Inside the square, draw how you see yourself (5 minutes).
c. Share a discovery you made with the class (5 minutes).