How can we nurture creativity in education, in work, at home? This presentation offers 7 questions for self-reflection, drawing on a wide range of sources of evidence and experience around how creativity is most effectively nurtured and supported.

1. Nurturing Creativity - Making it
happen
7 self-reflection questions
Ben Sandbrook

2. Nurturing creativity: what do we need
to make it happen?
Creativity goals?
(for all children)
or Identifying creativities
(what do different creativities look like / sound like / etc.?)
Creativity package?
(a package of ideas, models, instructions, training, support people)
or Creative environments
(an environment for adults and other creativity nurturers,
so that they can create one with children)
Creativity training?
(training for creativity nurturers)
or Creative experiences
(so creativity nurturers experience their own creativity)
A creativity scheme of work?
(a programme of what to do when)
or Creativity techniques and behaviours
(so creativity nurturers have ideas and experience of what to do for creativity)

3. 7 self-reflection questions

4. 3. Do we really motivate 4. Do we really
creativity, recognise creativity,
through through
focus, challenge, purpose, encourage observation, patience, empathet
ment, and being interested? ic judgement and an open
mind?
2. Do we really 5. Do we really feed
behave creatively creativity,
with our children, through inspiration, exposure
understanding and valuing to diversity, developing
how we are creative skills, knowledge &
ourselves? understanding?
1. Do our children really 6. Do we really
have a creative develop creativity,
through feedback and support that
environment, where they are are considered, open-minded
empowered and allowed to reflective and constructive?
experiment, create, explore and
play?
7. Do we really take creativity
seriously,
making it central, collaborating with others, learning from