ThoughtLab: What we can learn from kids about creativity - and exercises to enhance creative thinking within your workshops
💡 ThoughtLab: Join our interactive webinars where speakers share research, projects, theoretical models, or lessons learned on L&D-relevant topics. Dive into new insights with the community.
✨ Participation: This session is ideal for L&D professionals looking to enhance their impact and strengthen their creative thinking.
“A beginner’s mind” is highlighted as key to excelling at our jobs as designers and creatives, but what exactly is it, and how do we tap into it?
Researchers show what every parent knows: children have endlessly elastic brains, curious and explorative. A child comes up with multiple innovations in a typical day because they can combine typical objects in never-before-seen permutations and combinations to solve problems they encounter. Together, we will answer these three questions:
What can we learn from neuroscience about how children see the world?
How might we – even temporarily – transcend our grown-up boxes to harness our beginner’s mind?
How can we tap into our collective creative intelligence using Miro?
🎁 KEY TAKE-AWAYS
Walk away with a concrete definition of Creativity
Learn about the Explore-Exploit tradeoff, why humans tend to be in exploit mode, and how that harms creativity
Practical exercises proven to help your workshop attendees “think outside the box” and be more creative
About our Host:
Shipra Kayan is the design evangelist at Miro, and led UX and product teams in Silicon Valley before joining Miro. Combining her experience, market trends, customer conversations and research, Shipra is at the forefront of how our customers leverage design thinking and agile methodologies to improve product innovation and delivery.
See you there, Angela and Barbara