Creative thinking can be trained like a muscle. In other words, creative thinking is not an innate ability, but a skill that can be developed through consistent practice and targeted application. Just as physical fitness is achieved through regular training, fostering creative thinking requires targeted methods and tools that help the brain to create new connections.
The workshop aims to teach and practice how being active with creative methods can give other people as well as oneself impulses that promote personal development and the development of one's own creativity. The methods used encourage lateral thinking, awaken a sense of possibility, strengthen flexibility, improvisation and playfulness and help to overcome restrictions, control mechanisms and habits. By activating the "resource of creativity", we can overcome obstacles such as rationality and routine thinking and thus switch to a positive flow.
Target audience
People from the arts, education, church, marketing, management, culture, business and science who are interested in applying and teaching creativity methods
People who would like to learn more about intensifying creative idea generation and problem solving
Learning objectives/skills
To learn how creative methods can stimulate personal development and change
Recognize how creative methods help to develop creative intelligence
Trying out how creative methods lead to an authentic and empathetic attitude
Contents/inputs
Creativity principles as stimulating moments for the development of potential
Creative liveliness as training through amazement, flexibility and playfulness
Readings as aids to understanding creativity as a socially transformative force and productive resource
Bibliography/Literature
Paolo Bianchi (ed.): Ressource Kreativität, Kunstforum International, Volume 250, Verlag Kunstforum, Cologne 2017.