After reading about the Creative Environment in Module 4, how do you describe your physical and psychological environment for creative work?

• Internal Characteristics

• • Imagination

  • Knowledge

  • Attitude

• External

  • Culture

  • Resources

  • Habitat

  • Physical

  • Psychological

  • Physical surrounding

  • A lot of creativity comes from just being in a place where it is allowed to happen spontaneously Carla Hannaford

  • Decorations, places

  • Psychological environment

  • Social interaction

  • Optimist

  • You can alter the way you look at things and how you interact with people

  • Bicycle Helmet

  • Dimensions of a Creative Climate

  • According to Teresa Amabile (Harvard University), there are 6 broad categories to optimize creativity in an environment:

  • 1. 1.Challenge

    2. 2.Freedom

    3. 3.Resources

    4. 4.Diversity and co-worker creativity

    5. 5.Supervisory encouragement

    6. 6.Organizational support

• Internal Creative Climate

• Good mood creates creative thinking

• • Criticism and self-judgment inhibits creativity

  • Anterior cingulate cortex, which facilitates the generation of original thoughts, is not activated when we believe we are under attack

  • Results in tunnel vision, alternatives do not present themselves

• Internal Creative Climate

• • Broaden and build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 2001)

• • Positive emotions broadens ones awareness

  • Encourages connections among unrelated elements

  • Over time, resources are built, skills are improved

• Creative organizations and their practices

• Support and encourage observation

• Allow individuals for unrelated activities

• Going to a museum

• Surfing

• Open environment

• Offer space and time for reflection

• Google 20%

Mindfulness

• Being fully immersed in mental events in the present moment, experiencing with all of our senses

• Attention regulation

• Tourist tend to be very mindful

• Markets are focused on Today

• Anticipate, scan, synthesize The Future

• Understand that getting to the future takes time

Henry Ford If I asked my customers

what they wanted, they would have

said a faster horse.

Tina Seelig