Jam & Ivy’s Creativity Studio Presents:

1. Jam & Ivy’s Creativity Studio Presents: Creative Confidence: Chapter 2 DARE “From Fear to Courage”

2. Guided Mastery The process of “Guided Mastery” draws on the power of first hand experience to remove false beliefs. It incorporates psychological tools like : Along the way, it helps people confront a major fear and dispel it one small , manageable step at a time. Vicarious learning Social Persuasion Graduated tasks

3. Storyteller (2-3 minutes) Each person gets a card with a topic and must structure a sentence in the story using this answer to continue the story. You cannot take more than 20 seconds to incorporate your topic into a sentence to continue the story. You get to say no more than 2 sentences. Everyone must go. Story starts “Once upon a time, I found the most unusual thing”

4. Drawing Confidence A common misperception is that we are either good at drawing or we’re not. In reality, drawing is a skill that you can learn and improve through practice with little guidance.

5. Sketch (3-4 minutes) If you can draw the 5 shapes, you can draw anything! Take 2 minutes to draw a figure showing emotion, action and relation. Use the guidelines on the board. When finished, stand up and share your picture with everyone. After 2 minutes, everyone must stand up and show their art.

6. Creativity Scar A specific incident when a person was told that they weren’t talented as artists, musicians, writers or singers.

7. Sculpt (4-5 minutes) The sculptor must work in silence. Sculptures do not talk. The sculpture can only move or show animation if the sculptor physically moves them. Can only win if you sculpt the correct answer using your playdoh.

8. The Failure Paradox If you want more success, you have to be prepared to shrug off more failure. Edison, and like creative geniuses, understood that an experiment ending in failure is not a failed experiment – as long as constructive learning is gained.

9. Improv (5-10 minutes) Chose one person to have the job of "conductor.“ A suggestion for the title of a story is obtained, and the conductor points to any of the participants around the table. This person begins making up a story related to the title. At any time, the conductor can point to another person, who must then continue the story from exactly where the previous person stopped. The conductor points to a new person as many times as he or she would like. If the new person takes too long to come up with something or does not continue fluidly from the person before, he or she must sit down. Each player needs to listen closely because they might be called on to continue the story at any moment.

10. “From Fear to Joy” Takeaways: • Everyone is creative in their own right • Vanquish Creativity Scars – they are from the past • Embrace Failure – trial and error breeds innovation Application at Intuition: Facing your fear with manageable steps can lead to greater innovation at work which is vital whether you are in graphics, project management or a junior account manager 

11. “Courage is only the accumulation of small steps” (GyorgyKonrad) “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain”. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)