The Global Creativity Initiative Podcast

In this thought-provoking episode, we’re joined by Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow,  clinician, author, independent scholar, and expert in nonlinear dynamics and creativity. Based in Santa Monica, Dr. Marks-Tarlow bridges cutting-edge science and deep clinical insight, offering a fascinating lens on the power of intuition, fractal geometry, and the art of being fully human.

We explore how creativity is essential to transformation, why it&apo...

In this episode, Pauliina Valpas, co-founder of Yellow Method AI in Finland, explores how creativity fuels innovation especially as a problem-solving process. From identifying the right challenge to implementing solutions, creativity is present at every step. And if that sounds a bit abstract, Pauliina invites you to rethink what creativity looks like. Sometimes it happens on the fly, or even on a bus.

She shares a formative childho...

Season Three kicks off with an inspiring conversation featuring Dr. Teresa Lawrence, Program Director for the Creative Leadership and Innovation for Change PhD program in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Dr. Lawrence brings a wealth of insight into how Creative Problem Solving, CPS, adds value across education, research, and business.

Dr. Lawrence invites us to rethink creativity as the ability to generate options and possibilities. "C...

Unlock Your Creative Potential

Life can be tough, filled with challenges and blind spots. How to problem find and resolve amid s stormy sea of valid reasons and feelings is messy. As Dr. Hector Ramos from Texas A&M University wisely puts it, "The heart of the problem is the problem in your heart." 

In this episode, we explore how creativity isn’t just for entrepreneurs or artists—it’s a vital life skill for all of us. C...

 
Want to become more creative?  Do what the creative geniuses do.

To be creative it to be schooled in imagination.
 
Dr Robert Root-Bernstein defines creativity as problem solving. No big surprise there perhaps. And what's the 'how"?  How about emulate creative attributes from the greats? Bob shares stories and insights as to what makes us more creative by drawing out creative traits.
 

Newsflash: You're already creative and your brain may be blocking your creativity. 

Clearly, this is an important question -
 
How to unblock what's in the way of your creativity?   

Pete Ophoven addresses this question by championing the value of understanding and leaning into the 'how' for developing one's creativity. This is doable, especially when we develop an awareness, and ...

Creativity is often thinking differently inside the box. A box is a constraint, rather like time and money.

And then again, sometimes a new box is needed. What worked before what won't work now. The world truly is messy place. It's time for a radically new approach. 

Take a shoebox for example, as a paradigm shift in imagining a new satellite design.  A radically new concept, brought on by bachelor stu...

How might you become more creative?

1. Go to School at the DeBono Institute of the for Creative Thinking & Innovation
at the University of Malta, yes, in the Mediterranean. Study creativity, innovation management, entrepreneurship, critical thinking and future studies and you are equipped with 21st century skills. Who doesn't want to live in the Med? And if you don't, study programs are also online.

What weighs more, a pickle or pain?  Pause. Become curious and wonder. Do this and you are on your way to accessing your very own unlimited natural resource: your creativity. Dr Kay elegantly ripples through riddles as just one sample skill within a richly packed tool box primed for transformation. In true creative form, Sandra connects many of the essential characteristics of creativity by cracking the perceived hard shells (I am ...

Creativity is central to our well-being.  "Be original, be creative, think outside the box" are among the mantras to 'be creative.' And yet, how and when do we learn what that means? Seemingly late in one's academic career, too often at the master's  or doctoral is when creativity becomes a hot topic among educators. This is too late! Assuming we value wellness, Chris offers a stark perspective  on the...

A deep dive coffee klatsch among scholars who story tell and parse the research  specifically on the topic of awareness  for becoming aware of how you might develop your creativity. This episode calls on all educators, corporate and classroom to consider taking the RDCA to understand and develop individual and student group creativity in all classrooms.  We also call on you to reach back to us with your questions and opportunities ...

Think creativity is all about ideas and brainstorming? Think again. Dr Mike Mumford emphasizes creativity is equally about evaluation. "Systematic refinement," continual appraisal and honing as a practice defines creative process.  And there are many other attributes to creativity that are often overlooked or not yet understood. Motivation, anomaly,  disruption, negative creativity, anger all contribute to creativity, but...

The Reisman Diagnostic Creativity Assessment is a free 10 minute self diagnostic tool for assessing your creativity in 11 identified and long researched categories of creativity. You want this! In becoming aware of strengths and areas to develop you are sure to become more creative every day. Dr Freddie Reisman is a leading scholar of creativity in education. The Freddie Reisman Center for Translational Research in Creativity and M...

Dr Roger Firestien is focused on finding the problem. Why? Because, "for every complex problem there's an answer that's clear, simple and wrong."  Most of us solve for the wrong problem. And here's the gold: in about 5-6 minutes with the right (creativity) skills you can uncover what the real problem might be. If you have five  minutes and dislike do-overs then lean in. In this episode, Roger talks about ma...

Dr Mumford shares what's trending in creativity research today.

 

Creativity Research Journal 

The Global Creativity Initiative Podcast is a scholarly commitment to sharing creativity and specifically creative process for problem solving (aka life) with all of humanity. Visit our website to learn more about The Global Creativity Initiative. Write to us at gci.creativitypodcast@gmail.com

"Innovation is at the intersection of knowledge and insights." Professor Chinnam in India  shares how STEM students for engineering require both knowledge and skills. Knowledge is learned. And how does one become skilled?  Insights come from a wanting to know though pragmatic trial and error.  Learn, Unlearn and Relearn is a formula for creativity. Another tip Chinnam puts forth is this: ask questions. And when our questi...

"Any time you're faced with a problem you haven't solved before, some degree of creativity is required." Everyday creativity has roots in Torrance's work and comes though in Bonnie's story telling insights from her direct experience with the late great Dr. Torrance, a founding scholar for what has evolved into the discipline of creativity.  An authentic commitment to creativity comes through because it...

"Everyone of us has a seed of creativity," says Dr. Freddie Riesman, begging the question, is your creativity dormant or is it growing, and if so, how are you growing it?  If you think you're not creative or wondering what creativity is then lean in. Reisman's RDCA, The Riesman Diagnostic Creativity Assessment is a free self assessment tool developed specifically for bringing self awareness about as as starting ...

"We are the future of the past," says author Rob Swigart. If this is true, and knowing what we know, what are we doing now for tomorrow? Valid question and compelling points in this conversation around how nature us perhaps our best teacher.  There are no straight lines in nature. Creativity is not a linear set of processes. Before she disappears from her capital "N" status, if that is a status, what might we le...