Inspiring Creativity – Training for Community Organisations, Charities and Students’ Unions

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

The value of creative thinking for workplace productivity and personal wellbeing is something that is understood but all too often not cultivated.  This course looks at how creativity used daily can improve working practices, to build confidence, facilitate collaborative working, inspire innovative thinking, and foster well-being. It will engage with different ideas of what creativity is, how the working environment can be made more creative and will leave each participant with a plan of how to personally become more creative in your own working practice  This training will be delivered in your organisation over two days, for up to 12 attendees.

The course is interactive, creative and focused on reflecting on your working practice.  All  our courses are developed in consultation with the community sector,

Learning Outcomes:

  • Identify ways to create a more creative working environment
  • Develop an understanding of the connection between wellbeing and creativity
  • Be able to inspire creativity in others
  • To have a grasp of different creative facilitation techniques and how you can use these
  • Be able to have a clear plan of how you can apply different techniques to increase your personal creativity

Course Schedule:

  • Day 1 – Defining creativity, art, inspiration, and connectivity, what does it mean in different working situations, why is this useful in the workplace? What does and doesn’t work and why; A creative environment – overcoming fear and workplace wellbeing, creating a balance: the role of confidentiality and the importance of space of sharing, team working, networking and diversity
  • Day 2 – Techniques for becoming more creative: exercise’s in lateral thinking, divergent thinking, metacognition; More creative facilitation techniques for mitigating power structures and encouraging engagement; Going further – looking at the actions you will take improve creativity in your workplace and making a personal creativity plan

This course can be delivered in-house for up to 12 attendees.  We encourage organisations to work together in partnership to allow training to happen and are happy to train multi-organisation cohorts.

Total delivery cost for 2 days and up to 12 attendees: £1350

10% discount for courses run in August 2018.

If you are interested and would like to know more please get in touch! heather@magneticideals.org