Created by: Rachelle Smalldon Steer Empowerment Consulting [steer] empowerment

1. Created by: Rachelle Smalldon Steer Empowerment Consulting [steer]empowerment

2. Retreat Intro Video

3. WELCOME! Session Objectives: • Introduction of staff and roles • Retreat logistics and schedule (facilities, meals, instructions) • Retreat Curriculum and Goals • Any other necessary info for the weekend

4. Retreat Outline Friday • CONNECT: Creativity and Connections (You, Your Community, Your God) Saturday • GROW: Creativity and YOU • LEAD: Creative Leadership • SERVE: Implementing your Creativity • CONNECT: Community Creativity Sunday • GROW. LEAD. SERVE. CONNECT.

5. Weekend Notes • Schedules for the weekend • Things to know about the venue • Things to know about meals • Photo Release Forms • Noelle’s cellphone (989) 339-0064

6. GROW. LEAD. SERVE. CONNECT. Curriculum and Materials • This is for YOU • The Retreat Model • The Curriculum and Materials • The purpose and goals of this retreat

7. CONNECT:Creativity and Connection

8. Creativity and Connection Session Objectives: • The creativity concept • Practicing creativity • Getting creative and building community

9. Being Creative • The Creativity Concept • How can this benefit us as YA Leaders?

10. Creativity Warm-Up • Unites right and left brain – whole brain thinking • Take 4 pieces of paper and two markers • Using two hands and two markers spend a few minutes in the following dual handed drawing exercises: • Drawing 1: right and left hands draw separately but simultaneously • Drawing 2: right and left hands draw the same thing beside each other • Drawing 3: right and left draw whatever they want

11. Video: Creativity Warm-Up

12. Introducing: Your Creative Self • Use the final piece of paper in front of you • Draw your self portrait using one of the techniques from the Creativity Warm-Up • Community sharing: • Who are you? • Where are you from? • Why are you here this weekend? • 3 aspects of you that you would like to share from your drawing For the next activity in the tabernacle, you will need a journal or paper and pen.

13. Creative Connections: A Team Event • Introduce yourself to your team: • Name, where you’re from, and something not a lot of people know about you • Each team must come up with a 3 minute advertisement to sell their prop. Their advertisement should be in the genre given and must include the song somehow. • You have 20-30 minutes to come up with the most creative advertisement. • When you return you will each present your ad to the group • Judges will award points based on creativity, funniest ad, most informative, and MVP

14. A Creative Meditation • Find your own spot on the floor in a position you are comfortable. Spend a few moments in silent reflection. • Listen to the words of the meditation video and the words shared by the leader • Spend time in silent prayer. Pray for: • Divine guidance for the needs of the people you lead • Your own discernment of God’s hope for the gifts you have to offer • Openness of mind and spirit • Spend time in continuous free-writing your hopes, dreams, ideas for (choose one or more): • What you hope to get from this retreat • Ideas for your young adult ministry • Personal goals for your own individual growth

16. GROW:Your Creative Genius

17. Your Creative Genius Session Objectives: • Understand creativity and innovation • Understand elements of creativity • Understand your own creativity potential • Understand and begin to overcome barriers to creativity • Begin to practice creativity and implementing creative thoughts and ideas

18. Video: Creativity and Innovation

19. Creativity and Innovation – the difference • Creativity is idea generation. Any time you come up with an idea – you are being creative. Creativity is a thinking process. Creativity is making something out of nothing. • Innovation is creativity implemented. Innovation is putting ideas into practice. Innovation is a productive process. It adds value to the idea.

20. Video: The 6 Characteristics of Truly Creative People

21. Ways to Increase your Imagination • Framing and re-framing problems • 5+5 = ? OR ? + ? = 10 • if you don’t question the questions you’re asked you’ll never come up with innovative solutions • Connecting and combining ideas • un-useless inventions – putting things together in surprising ways (Ex. shoes with umbrellas) • Challenging assumptions • (ex. creating a sweater out of dirty socks)

22. Your Creative Engine • KNOWLEDGE – the toolbox for your imagination • if you want to create a new type of car you need to know something about engineering • How do you get knowledge? Pay attention to the world. • ATTITUDE – if you are not driven, motivated and have the confidence that you can solve the problem – you won’t. • ex. Innovators are not puzzle builders (who get stuck when a piece is missing) – they are quilt makers – take what they have to work with and make things happen. See yourself as a quilt-maker • Knowledge is toolbox for imagination • Imagination is a catylyst for transforming that knowledge into new ideas • Attitude is the spark that gets that going

23. Your Creative Engine - assessment YOU: • KNOWLEDGE • What are you knowledgeable about? Where does your expertise currently lie? • What would you like to be more knowledgeable about? • How might you become more knowledgeable in that area (list 3 ways)? • ATTITUDE • What, of your abilities, do you feel most confident about? What drives you? • In what areas would you like to feel more confident? • How might you become more confident in those areas (list 3 ways)?

24. Outside your Creative Engine • HABITAT – the people you work with, rewards, incentives • RESOURCES – people, materials, communities, etc. • CULTURE – affects the way we think, feel and act • infuses an entire organization • Involves how we deal with failure (failure = data)

25. Your Creative Engine –assessment IN THE COMMUNITY OF CHRIST CONTEXT: • HABITAT • what external factors (in your habitat) influence your creativity? • I could be more creative if I had __________ • RESOURCES • what resources are currently available to you? • I could be more creative if I had ___________ • CULTURE • how would you describe the culture of the organization? • How does it impact your creativity? • The organization could help me be more creative by ________

26. Summary of the Creative Engine • All aspects of the innovation engine are woven together. Without one the others wouldn’t function. • Ex. The more knowledge we have, the more resources, we can unlock, the more resources we have in our environment determines what we know.

27. Reflect • Share a time where you were asked to take something that already existed (an idea or thing) and transform it into something else. • What experiences have you had putting original ideas into practice? • What ideas have you seen innovated in the church context? What went well in this example? What might have been better?

28. THINK. PAIR. SHARE. GROW Learning Technique: • THINK about it • PAIR with a partner • SHARE with the larger group

29. THINK. GROUP. SHARE THINK. • WRITE your thoughts on creativity: • What excites you about the idea of being creative? • What about your own personality will help you in creative processes? • What creative ideas (related to your role) have you come up with but not done anything about?

30. THINK. GROUP. SHARE GROUP. • Share with your group: • What is one idea you’ve come up with that you would like to see implemented in your young adult ministry context? • What about your idea do you think will work well? What about your idea would be even better if ___________ happened?

31. THINK. GROUP. SHARE SHARE. • One person from each pair summarize your group discussion • Identify key words that came up to be listed on the wall under the headings: • YOUR IDEAS • IDEA STRENGTHS • IDEA WISH LIST

32. Group Reflection • Barriers to idea implementation

33. Overcoming Barriers to Creativity 4 Barriers to Creativity: • Fear of Dreaming • Fear of Failure • Fear of Upsetting People • Fear of Conflict Brainstorming Solutions: • How might we overcome barriers to creativity?

34. Brainstorming – a creative process • Think positive and as if anything could happen • Three universal rules of brainstorming: • The sky’s the limit – share every idea no matter how outrageous • Impossible ideas give rise to other more reasonable ideas • No evaluation allowed – save critical and negative comments for later • Don’t dampen the creative spirit • Stay focused – limit yourself to ideas related to the topic • Don’t discuss which ideas can or will be used – save that for later

35. Session Wrap-Up Do we feel we’ve achieved the objectives? • Understand creativity and innovation • Understand elements of creativity (from the 6 Characteristics of Truly Creative People video) • Understand your own creativity potential • Understand and begin to overcome barriers to creativity • Begin to practice creativity and implementing creative thoughts and ideas (through brainstorming)

36. QUESTIONS?

37. LEAD:Creative and Innovative Leadership

38. Creative and Innovative Leadership Session Objectives (2 sessions): Session 1: Creative and Innovative Leadership • Understand leadership • Understand how leadership influences creativity • Understand how you can begin to implement creative leadership Session 2: Leading Innovation • Understand leading and navigating change • Understanding the

39. Video: The Creative Leadership Effect

40. Creative Leadership • Small groups: • How do you see creative leadership being played out in a group or organization you are a part of? • How is your creativity, or the creativity of the group, impacted by the leader?

41. Creativity in organizations – a 2-way street • “Managers cannot be expected to ignore business imperatives, of course. But in working toward these imperatives, they may be inadvertently designing organizations that systematically crush creativity.” • To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done

42. 3 Components of Creativity • Expertise – technical, procedural and intellectual knowledge • Creative Thinking Skills – how flexibly and imaginatively people approach problems • Motivation – external and intrinsic • Intrinsic motivation (passion, desire to do the work) produces higher levels of creativity

43. Three Components of Creativity (From the article “How to Kill Creativity” by Teresa Amabile in the Harvard Business Review)

44. MY CREATIVITY COMPONENT • EXPERTISE – areas you are knowledgeable about • CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS – how you tend to solve problems or make decisions • MOTIVATIONS – what external and intrinsic motivations drive you • What, in each area, might be even better if ______ ? (ie. It might be even better if I made decisions “this way”)

45. Leadership • Leadership – • Creative Leadership – using a leader’s power to “invent new assumptions and create new models geared toward an ever-changing world” • Enables innovation “Leadership is the most important factor needed to foster creativity and fuel innovation at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Leaders must act in ways that promote and support innovation in their culture.”

46. Innovation Leadership Skill by Leader Level (From the article: Innovation: How Leadership Makes the Difference by David Magellan Horth and Jonathan Vehar from the Center of Creative Leadership)

47. Your Leadership Style: THINK. PAIR. SHARE. • THINK. Brainstorming YOUR current role in the church. • What leadership role(s) do you play? • How would you describe your leadership style? • What do you feel you are doing really well? (strengths) • What do you feel could be better? (sub-strengths) • List 3 ways you could make an effort to support creativity in your role. • PAIR. • Share about your current leadership role(s) • How can your own leadership style, strengths and sub-strengths lend themselves to positively impacting the people you lead or work with.? • What ideas you have for encouraging a culture of creativity and innovation in your leadership area?

48. How leadership can support or kill creativity • CHALLENGE – matching people with assignments that play to their expertise, skills, and passions • Creativity killer: not paying attention or obtaining the information necessary • FREEDOM – giving people autonomy concerning process • Creativity killer: frequently changing goals or poorly defined goals

49. RESOURCES – time and money are two main resources affecting creativity • Creativity Killer: Short deadlines or not providing appropriate financial support for ideas • WORK-GROUP FEATURES – designing teams with diversity and people who share excitement, support, and acceptance • Creativity Killer: homogenous teams

50. SUPERVISORY ENCOURAGEMENT – taking time to praise creativity successes and failures • Creativity Killer: not acknowleging efforts or greeting ideas with skepticism and de-motivating evaluation processes/critique • ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT – leaders put systems and procedures into place that emphasize values and prioritize creative efforts, mandating information sharing and collaboration • Creativity Killer: allowing political problems to fester, not supporting creativity or allowing for it in the systems