How To Nurture Creativity In Children

An overview of the areas where the most influence can be made: Includes how to develop creative thinking skills through reading, encouraging group creativity, providing them the freedom to decide and child centered environments, the role mentors plays and how we can create the innovators of the future.

Learn more about how play has evolved in mammals over aeons and developed as a survival skill. It helps children to navigate social groups, learn to manipulate objects, problem solve, build tolerance to risk and cultivate imaginations.

There’s a growing chorus of education experts advocating to ensure that playtime is maintained as part of play-based learning, especially in preschool, but also as children transition to primary school. They’re calling for secure time for unstructured, spontaneous activities, particularly with outdoor play and the need to gently prepare children for this transition.

Then learn how Finland has made a radical shift in forty years from a comparatively poor country with an underperforming education system to one that is consistently ranked one of the most innovative countries in the world.

Concluding section to dispel myths and misconceptions about creativity and its role in developing creative and innovative adults.

Also undertake a reflective activity to explore where you can have the most influence to create a creative advantage for the children in your life.

The FourSight Thinking Profile is an assessment tool that helps individuals and teams navigating complex problems by measuring where your energy lights up and wanes in the problem solving process.

Even the best teams struggle and in these days of increased virtual teams, it’s even harder to collaborate and find innovative solutions.

The Foursight assessment tools are used to:

• Increase creativity, innovation and collaboration

• Enhance design thinking, LEAN and agile approaches

• Reduce team conflict

• Get to better team based solutions faster

Learn the FourSight framework to help your team navigate complexity and find innovative, new solutions. It provides a common language to help you figure out where you naturally light up in the innovation process… Do you like to clarify? Ideate? Develop? implement? Some combination?

With FourSight, individuals, teams or organizations can discover their problem-solving preferences. The ability to understand and leverage thinking styles is the first step toward achieving consistent breakthrough results. Once you understand your own approach, you can anticipate where you’re likely to get stuck and how you can be more effective, working alone or with a group.

It’s used successfully with teams across the world, based on 65 years of research into creative problem solving and has 100 000 assessments under its belt.