Enhance Your Creativity Through Art Based Practices

This online video covers:

Crafting a healthier mindset

Innovative approaches to healthcare

The benefits of creative activities on mental health

Utilising the arts to assist learning

Do the arts have a superpower?

Creativity is the most important asset we have to negotiate through this rapidly changing world.

From the way we manage our work life and conduct business, to how we learn a new skill, model behaviours for our children and shape the way we age to express our unique selves, the creative brain has no limits.

By broadening the applicability of creativity and recognising how it can elevate us both personally and professionally, we can start to realise the enormous reach we can have as parents, leaders, educators and in everyday life. We can establish the foundations of the creative advantage.

As leaders we can have more impact as we learn the skills of effective and creative leadership to enable us to manage the challenges faced by our workplace teams, organisations and the society at large.

As educators and parents, we’re discovering the role creativity plays in development and learning, with educational psychologists identifying that the creative process underpins classroom learning as well as critical informal learning from speaking our first language to engaging in group play.

As maturing adults we can tap into positive peak experiences, the ‘flow’ that contributes to happy, healthy and fulfilling lives, as well as face everyday problems that require creative responses.

So how can we nurture and take advantage of our own individual creative abilities if we’re to solve the pressing problems facing our world?

The answer to this is the objective of this program. To lay out the science behind the apparent mystery of creativity, to not only appreciate our creative potential but to give us all the motivation and the tools to obtain a creative advantage in all aspects of life.

The first online program in the Creative Advantage program series demonstrated that we’re all born to be creative. It’s a necessary and innate ability, with an evolutionary basis that natural selection has favoured, to enable us to mix things up to stay on top of what life can throw at us. Like any ability, while we have a certain capacity, we can learn and improve them.

We have also learnt that neuroscience points to the growing understanding that while most of us may be born with more or less the same brain, our capacity to use it can be strengthened throughout our life by the way we strengthen our creative abilities.

But Ultimately, creativity is as much about what we do, as it is about how we do it.

The Creative Advantage Life Cycle program series reveals how creativity leads to the powerhouse of innovation, helping us all to use these learnings successfully in both our personal and professional lives, to influence organisational cultures and more broadly, society. But creativity is also visible in those seemingly small decisions we make daily, and this ‘little-c’ everyday creativity can be influenced with the creative techniques outlined in this book series.

It’s curated from the latest research from the world’s most renowned experts and thinkers in the fields of neuroscience, social science, education and psychology to provide an understanding and practical approach to successfully create an advantage where you work, live, play and as you age.

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