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Dragons And Mermaids: Script Building Using Sociodrama As An Ecological Teaching And Learning Application, Catherine M. Skora

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project describes and demonstrates a script-building process for use as a teaching and learning application for third-grade students. Creativity elements of models framing this application will include the Torrance Model of Sociodrama as Creative Problem Solving, Rhodes’ 4 P’s (person, process, product, and press), and the Creative Problem Thinking Skills Model. The constructivism theory of learning is discussed to demonstrate an active-learning process that is ecological in nature, as are the creativity models discussed. Engagement of students in this ecological and active-learning process is the intention of the teaching and learning application in this paper. Commonalities among these creativity …

Creativity Through Humor And Playfulness; All In A Day's Work, Eugene Pohancsek Jr.

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project focuses on the fundamental aspects of creativity and its relationship to humor in the workplace. Since employees spend about one-third of their waking hours at work it has been shown that humor and play can be beneficial in the work environment. In the first section entitled Discovering, my philosophical views unfold as it relates to creativity. This foundation is crucial in understanding how the person can positively influence their creative environment. This philosophical review moves into the sections entitled Recognizing and Humor Style. These sections review current trends and research around humor in the workplace. In the concluding …

Assigning Value To Intuitive Dimensions In Creativity, Susan Coburn

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

Assigning Value to Intuitive Dimensions in Creativity

The abilities described by people as intuitive processes include anything from having an unexplained feeling surrounding an event, or having met with a psychic experience, the latter occurring mostly without a catalyst or deliberate engagement. This paper briefly explores the use of these intuitive qualities within the subject of creativity, a thinking skill enhanced by using all available resources. A brief questionnaire was administered to fifteen colleagues regarding information or feelings gained from intuition, dreams, unexplained voice contact or sensations, visual events, and other self-described developments that could be classified as intuitive phenomena. …

Creative Classroom Designs, Sarah Komendat

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

Creative Classroom Designs Creating a classroom space that is conducive to learning is an important task for teachers. The purpose of this project was to generate classroom design plans that create a positive classroom environment which promotes learning and creativity. I observed classrooms at Central Avenue School in Lancaster, NY and did some research about how to design positive learning environments. Digital plans for remodeling six classrooms at Central Avenue were created using the AutoCAD design program. This project is intended to teach readers about the importance of classroom design and its effects on the creative climate, student behavior, and …

A Journey To Self, Theresa Thewes

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

The initial intent of this project was to define a future direction by focusing on intuitive problem solving and work with a life coach. The plan exploited a tactile preference with work in fiber, glass and paint. In order to enhance skills of reflection, the plan included lessons in yoga and participation in the Expert2Expert conference and the Creative Problem Solving Institute conference. Key learnings of the project included clarification of a strong preference to embrace the present and a willingness to allow the future to unfurl. It became obvious that I also have a clear preference for tactile, creative …

Injury Prevention Organizations In Canada: High Impact, Highly Creative?, Pamela Fuselli

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

Public sector organizations, specifically those dealing with knowledge as their product, are assumed to function on different principles than organizations in the private sector. Non-profit organizations do not represent a sector that has been studied in terms of creativity, creative problem-solving or thinking skills, although they have been the subject of study in terms of societal impact and value, specifically in the United States. There is an important gap that could be filled through exploration of non-profit organizations in Canada in terms of what has been shown to be high impact as well as high creativity. This project looks at …

Commercializing Creative Products, Alicia K. Arnold

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

As someone with preferences for ideation and implementation, I enjoy thinking up ideas and working to bring them to life. Over the years, I captured many of these ideas in notebooks and scraps of paper. Although I investigated the creative product ideas, I have yet to commercialize any of them. When I look at new products on store shelves, I am sometimes haunted by ideas I dreamed up that were brought to life by others. After examining past efforts, I realized focusing on clarifying and developing skills could help improve my chances of commercializing my creative product ideas. For this …

Building A Bridge To A New Career: On Becoming A Life Coach, Lydia Rose Pettis

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

Building a Bridge to a New Career: On Becoming a Life Coach The purpose of this project is to explore the possibility of becoming a life coach. It pulls together readings in key areas of personal interest that contribute to the development of a personal philosophy of coaching: visualization, questions, and humanistic psychology. The project documents an integrative process. As one cycle comes to an end I am reaching into the near and distant past, and combining skills, talents, and abilities in a new (and some would say surprising) way. The project is intended to lay the groundwork for starting …

The Process Of Writing A Case Study Of The Third Kind To Teach The Management Of Change, Francios B. Malo

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

The Process of Writing a Case Study of the Third Kind to Teach the Management of Change

This paper is about the process of writing a case study of the third kind to teach the management of change. The theoretical model I chose to structure my case study is the one proposed by John Kotter. After the first section where I explain the background to this project, the second section contains the pertinent literature and the third one the process plan I followed. While the fourth section contains the case study I wrote, the fifth summarizes my key learnings. Finally, …

Translating A Personal Identity Into A Website, L. Boccucci

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

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A Work To Inspire And Assist Women In Mid-Life Re-Enter The Workforce, Barbara Gruppos

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project has allowed me the opportunity to create a workshop of exploration for women in mid-life, as they reenter the job market. The main purpose of the workshop was to foster a means of self-discovery for these women through the creativity that lives inside them. Through the use of creative concepts and tools we were able to focus on the need for empowerment and self-confidence, in order to face some of the challenges in our current day workforce. It was also designed to provide clarification of their choice to partner with our agency, Everywoman Opportunity Center, Inc. while working …