IIDI Leadership Creativity, Innovation, and Manifestation class teaches you how to develop your creative process, understand right use of ideas for innovative interventions, and learn problem-identifying and solving skills for bringing ideas to manifestation.
IIDI has a long history of working with creative professionals and entrepreneurs in the generation and development of ideas into tangible projects and products.
Our method of working with dreams engages and strengthens each of the aspects by which creativity is measured (1), including: fluency of ideas, originality, elaboration and resistance to premature closure.
Creativity also requires the ability to discern use of ideas. That is, to be able to remain in the fluid and expanded creative process while at the same time generating ideas that will solve a problem or have applicability in some way. Our program develops this skill through a focus on aspects of the dreamwork process, through imagery exercises which are a means of dreaming awake, and through other experiential exercises done both in class and in between class.
Leaders have a need to be creative today, more than ever. The World Economic Forum, in their 2018 Future of Jobs report, highlights creativity, originality, critical thinking, flexibility, and complex problem-solving as ‘imperative reskilling’ in a today’s rapidly shifting business landscape (2) Adobe, Inc. has listed creativity as the top searched-for quality in employee hires (3).
Creativity is an imperative, and yet, since 1990, creativity scores in America have been sharply declining among both adults and children (4). Creativity researchers point to numerous factors why this is the case, including the lack of arts development in schools, and the rampant use of technology (5). IIDI turns the tide on this problem, creating a specific curriculum to stimulate the neurological processes involved in creativity, and develop creative skills, including specific tools for problem-identifying and solving.
In this class you will learn:
- How to expand your creative ideation process
- Perspective-taking techniques
- Pattern noticing and problem-identifying skills
- How to discern right use of ideas for problem-solving to the greatest outcome
- How to overcome personal blocks to creativity, including limiting belief systems
The DYW Leadership Dream Class I is recommended as a prerequisite.
Notes
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Defined by the Torrance Test for Creative Thinking: Torrance, E.P. (2018) Torrance ® Tests of Creative Thinking Interpretive Manual. Scholastic Testing Service, Inc., Bensenville, Illinois.
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World Economic Forum. The Future of Jobs Report 2018. Center for the New Economy and Society. Retrieved online April 6, 2022 at: https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2018.pdf
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Andrews, M. (9-29-2021). Creative skills and digital literacy: Equipping the next generation for success. Adobe blog, education section. Retrieved March 10, 2022 from https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/09/29/equipping-the-next-generation-with-creative-skills-and-digital-literacy.
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Kyung Hee Kim (2011) The Creativity Crisis: The Decrease in Creative Thinking Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, Creativity Research Journal, 23:4, 285-295, DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2011.627805
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See, for example: Ahmed M. Abdulla & Bonnie Cramond (2017) After Six Decades of Systematic Study of Creativity: What Do Teachers Need to Know About What It Is and How It Is Measured?, Roeper Review, 39:1, 9-23, DOI: 10.1080/02783193.2016.1247398
This class is a mix of experiential and pedagogical teaching. We will use imagery exercises, dreamwork, and other experiential exercises, with light homework to be done between classes.
