Workshop ~ Sustainable Creativity: The Practice of Growth

What if growth didn’t depend on motivation, tracking, or hitting the next goal? Sustainable Creativity is a two-part workshop built on a simple idea: our everyday practices, as individuals and as teams, are the real foundation of creative growth.

Instead of controlling outcomes, this workshop will focus on building three things:

• Tools over checklists. Tools can help form the foundation of creative practice and allow people to be prolific and play.
• Knowledge over goals. Building a knowledge base as an individual and as a group builds a strong creative culture, which moves beyond any single goal
• Building connections over efficiency. People often have the same idea at the same time, by connecting we can strengthen great ideas and move beyond efficiency to quality and sustainable creative practices.

December 4 – In Person
Part 1: Building your practice

• Learn to let go. Get an introduction to practice-based learning, an approach that builds deep confidence in your abilities instead of relying on motivation and goal setting.
• Connect to grow. See how the growth framework pairs individual practice, which develops your own knowledge, with sharing that knowledge among like-minded peers, and why that combination can be transformational.
• Map out your future. Fill out the growth diagram, a map of where you are now and where you could be. Think of it as a simulator for trying on future versions of yourself, then identifying the tools, knowledge, and connections to get there.
• Practice makes progress. Choose your practice cards, concrete steps for building a practice with a partner who will help you stay on track. Each card is a practice for a lifetime.
• People build knowledge. Choose who you’ll practice with. Explaining your progress to another person turns your experience into knowledge that’s uniquely yours, and yours to share.

January 8 – Virtual 12:00-1:00pm
Part 2: What did we learn?
We’ll come back together to talk through how the practices went:

• Which practices did you pick?
• What were the challenges?
• How could you modify them, or make them more challenging?
• What did you learn, and what unique knowledge did it unlock?