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Ignite Your Everyday Creativity

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Creativity is an essential skill for the 21st Century that is innate in all people and can be nurtured. We constantly need new and better ideas for almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives. The goal of this course is to help you recognize, develop and act upon the creativity that you already possess. We will accomplish this using three methods: b aware, b inspired, and b creative. Upon completion of this course participants will: Recognize the inherent creativity in yourself and others. Identify characteristics of a creative person that relate to yourself. Develop creative problem solving skills using the basic elements of the creative process. Examine qualities of a creative environment in real world settings. Evaluate an idea using the creative product criteria.

From the lesson

The Creative Person

In this module, we will be featuring the skill, “Visualize it Richly and Colorfully”. This skill is about using the five senses to paint a vivid picture of what you're trying to explain or understand.This module will require you to use your imagination during the lessons and the subsequent assignments. We will ask you to picture the many aspects of certain objects -- such as apples -- or to remember something as vividly as possible. Let's give it a shot: picture a flower. It doesn't matter what kind of flower it is -- it doesn't even have to be one that is known to humankind! What does the flower look like? What colors make up the petals? How many petals are there? Does the stem have thorns? Do the thorns hurt? Are the petals soft? Are they damp from a recent dew? How does the flower smell? What do you hear? Is there a bee buzzing around the flower? Are you brave enough to taste the flower? I know that sounds like a lot of questions, but you should incorporate all five senses into the lessons within this module. As you go through this module's lessons, we would like you to consider the following questions: * How does visualization make your memories come alive?* How does visualization spark your imagination?* When deliberately employing this skill, do you feel more creative? We encourage you to keep this description handy, as we will be asking you to apply this skill throughout the module.Ready? Let's get started!* Skill taken from Torrance, E.P., & Safter, H.T. (1999). Making the creative leap beyond... Hadley, MA: Creative Education Foundation Press.

Ismet Mamnoon4:21

Benjamin Streeter3:52

Meet the Instructors

Dr. Cyndi Burnett
Associate Professor
Creative Studies
Dr. John F Cabra
Associate Professor
Creative Studies

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At that time, I was definitely having issues with

fully seeing the idea that I wanted.

I knew that I had an idea and I wanted to grasp it.

And now the creative expanse of my mind really allows

me to go to places that I haven't been to before and

I'm taking risks and chances with the clothing I'm creating,

but it's all based on things that I know, that I've learned in the past.

I've been sewing for ten years already and so there's a lot of knowledge learned

up there and it's just about using it and really going at it full force.

Thinking about what I wanna do and where I wanna go and

then that really led me to wanting to take back control of my life and my creativity.

The interpersonal level of the creativity, I think really comes in

the questioning and that I'm always asking the questions to myself.

What if I did this?

What if I did that?

What if I changed a pattern piece this way or

what if I had the dress draping that way,

as opposed to the other way and that process of exploration and

always asking questions is the inner personal level.

On the social level of it, it's a lot of asking questions and in a collaboration.

There's a lot of people involved with this fashion show that I'm doing,

so it's a lot of asking them questions.

What's going to work?

What's the timing with it?

Having it on the models and making sure that the models

are comfortable in the clothes and other people's opinions and

weighing them in what I want the vision to be and

hoping that they understand that it's not fully conceived yet and

you have to kind of take my hand or just sit down and relax while I get to the end.

I think the myth is that there are special people that are creative.

I think everyone has a creativity and it's more about that eye.

I think a lot of people close that eye early on, that creative eye.

And as a child, you want the children to be imagining things and

you want them to be dreaming and you want them to be exploring.

And I think that even as an adult, you have to keep doing that things,

you have to look up at the clouds and look at what the clouds are saying to you or

you have to walk in the woods and listen to things or

sit on a street bench and listen to the traffic.

And feel the vibe around you, because the vibes and the sounds and

the feelings that you're getting is what's going to spark the creativity.

I don't think it's any chemical thing or

a different way your brain is set up,

it's just about being open to creative experiences.

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