Applied Creativity and Creative Leadership Institute2009
Tuesday evening January 6th to Thursday January 8th 2009

ZooangZi – an innovative creative thinking organization has teamed up with SCEPTrE – the Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education, to provide a stimulating training experience for higher education professionals. The experience is intended for anyone who has a role in leading and facilitating large or small projects involving others whether at departmental, Faculty, Institution or system levels. It is particularly relevant to people who lead teams or who have developmental role but it is also relevant to teachers who want to introduce more creative and enquiring approaches to learning.

Approach
The daily programme is created through a series of exercises to introduce and practice a range of techniques and provide experiences for reflective conversation. The process is designed to grow participants’ confidence and capacity for applied creativity and creative leadership. The material covered draws on the latest research and best practices in applied creativity and creative leadership. e.g. organizational development, creativity thinking, systemic & complexity thinking, community building, large group systems, etc.

Higher education topics covered
Changing roles within higher education • Recognising opportunity for applied creativity and creative leadership in your work • Action planning for engagement with applied creativity and creative leadership.

Resources

We will use film, a wiki and a manual to support learning.

Applied creativity topics
A range of topics will be used in a HE context e.g. Facilitating creative processes and emergence • Conscious and unconscious dynamics in groups and organizations • Leading through personal creativeness • Levels and dimensions of creativity in a complex World • Applying creativity to enable change • Allocating our creative powers and skills.