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Optimising Creativity for Health & WellBeing Throughout Life
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Optimising Creativity for Health & WellBeing Throughout Life

The Creative Advantage Life Cycle
Created byMaria Simonelli
Last updated 5/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • You will understand how both the concept and practice of everyday creativity can assist you to thrive throughout your life.
  • You will identify how well-being and creativity intersect and the health benefits associated with creative art practices.
  • You will learn how both your brain health and learning can be enhanced through creative practices as we age.
  • You will learn how creative practices can enhance your mental well-being.

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Course content

7 sections • 7 lectures • 1h 13m total length

  • Introduction6:40

    Introduction to the program and what will be covered. This includes the foundational concepts covered in 'The Creative Advantage", the significance of everyday creativity, how the arts are proving to be a way to support mental health and well being, how the brain changes as we  mature and how we can best utilise our creativity throughout our life.


Requirements

  • A desire to learn and understand how to build a more creative enhancing mindset.

Description

This program focuses on exploring how creativity can assist throughout our life with a focus on overall mental health well-being as we mature and age. It explores everyday creativity and how we might shape and realise our vision for a life well lived and the role creativity can play in this.

Everyday creativity is about personal creativity and is central to our way of life. It’s often expressed as little-c creativity. In thinking about everyday creativity as a creative advantage, this can provide enormous potential for originality, adaptation and improvisation.

Everyday creativity is not about the trivia of life. It’s about things that might lead to a discovery from where a more important accomplishment can grow. In pursuing a creative life every day, we can explore new possibilities and self-expression as a way of being, and experimentation as a style of existing.

It’s where we see the relevance of Abraham Maslow’s self-actualisation model of creativity and the development of self, which he believed helps us to grow and develop as human beings.

It also explores at length a more ‘hands-on’ experience through art practices that enable us to express ourselves creatively. There’s been a growth in studies that quantify the mental health and overall well-being benefits of creative practices. Engaging in creative activities has been attributed to improving rates of depression, reducing the body’s response to stress, assisting with cognitive decline, boosting the immune system to an increase in happiness. Learn how.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone seeking to shape a vision for a life well lived and explore what role creativity can play in this.

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