Location:
Connecticut, Delaware, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and other approved locations throughout the United States.
Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: gain confidence in their ability to be creative; develop convictions to generate and refine highly original, non-obvious solutions to a wide variety of needs and problems; explore resources, tools, and techniques to use in helping creative efforts; experience many different approaches to being creative, bringing into the effort viewpoints from the sciences, the arts, and all forms of human endeavor; understand idea generation and development; and develop skills in the management of creative individuals, including themselves, and projects in business, the community, and personal development.
Instruction:
This course explores the subject of creativity from the standpoint of making the student more aware of a world of potentials and the limitless surrounding possibilities for making and doing the new and useful in a wide variety of settings. Major topics covered in the course are: enhancing personal creativity; explore the deep intellectual background of creativity with noted physicist David Bohm; generate and refine ideas with others, using a wide variety of group and team creative processes; explore the creative process in business and other realms.
