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Creativity at Work Newsletter: Spring 2011 My goodness it’s been ages since I last published a newsletter and I hope this one makes up for it. I have three stories to tell about embodied learning— that is, learning by interacting with subject matter aesthetically, emotionally, and/or physically. In a world dominated by computer screens and [...]

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A popular physics prof  agreed to pit his traditional physics lectures against  the newfangled teaching techniques promoted by Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman and his disciples. The results were dramatic in a “learning competition” involving more than 500 first-year engineering students at the University of B.C The students learned more than twice as much in the new “interactive” [...]

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David McLaren has written a thought-provoking treatise on the economic value the arts bring to rural communities in Canada. A rt, like most Canadians, comes from small places. Margaret Laurences The Stone Angel takes place in Manawaka, her fictional mirror for Neepawa in Manitoba. Everything in Robertson Davies Deptford Trilogy begins with a snowball thrown [...]

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When people feel pressured to  work long hours, and maintain an accelerated pace of work over the long haul, work becomes a form of drudgery  that leads to stress-induced burnout. Workplace burnout kills the creative spark that fuels inspiration and passion. I know executives  who  have quit as a result of burnout, and I find it [...]

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UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) Highlights: A new development paradigm is emerging that links the economy and culture, embracing economic, cultural, technological and social aspects of development at both the macro and micro levels. Central to the new paradigm is the fact that creativity, knowledge and access to information are increasingly recognized [...]

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The Creativity at Work Newsletter: January 2011 These are the 21st Century skills you need to thrive in the coming years 1. Resilience Resilience is a reflex, a way of facing and understanding the world, that is deeply etched into a person’s mind and soul. Resilient people and companies face reality with staunchness, make meaning [...]

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Creativity at Work Newsletter December 2010 Dostoevsky once proclaimed, “Beauty will save the world!” I believe it to be true. Whenever I feel despair, I am uplifted by beauty in the form of music, art or nature. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1 said, “…If the too obvious, too straight branches of Truth and Good are crushed or [...]

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Creativity at Work Newsletter Nov 2010 photo @ Wesley Fryer In this issue: Notes from the CWF Recent Blog posts Interview: Five {5} Creative Questions Upcoming Workshops at Royal Roads The Creativity World Forum Last week I attended the Creativity World Forum (CWF) in Oklahoma, where I spoke about Creativity at Work. Every time I [...]

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