Season 3, Episode 2
Multi-Passionate and Reluctant Creatives
– Dr. Caroline Brookfield
Episode Transcription
Multi-Passionate and Reluctant Creatives with Caroline Brookfield
How might we help ourselves and others be more willing to express our creativity?
For some of us, there is a desire or need to explore as many interests as we possibly can. Hence, the terms multi-passionate and multiple potentialities. For reluctant creatives, there is a resistance to acknowledging or expressing their creativity.
Listen in to learn the benefits of embracing your creativity and how to tap into it for future success. Caroline shares her science-based approach to exciting people about creativity and how teachers can use it to encourage students who say they’re not creative to express their creativity. She also highlights various creative thinking skills for dealing with judgement around what students, parents, and administration will think about integrating creativity and risk-taking into the classroom.
Caroline’s Tips for Teachers and Parents:
- Try to incorporate more M’s for Maybes. School can be very black and white at times, so try to build in ambiguity to your lessons.
- Edit later! Just try something new. Nobody is really going to care about what you do if the stakes are low.
- Take time to regularly relax and turn things off. We need you so take care of yourself.
“You actually don’t have to even be good at what you do creatively to get the benefits of it.”
– Dr. Caroline Brookfield
About the Guest
Caroline received honors for her veterinary degree from the Ontario Veterinary College, is a certified level 2 Creative Problem Solving facilitator, and holds a Certificate of Professional Management from the University of Calgary, where she lives, Her lectures go unheeded by her family. The dog listens, sometimes.
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