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To impace regenerative futures we need to cultivate communities that has the sensitivity, empathy, and agility to explore and apply imagined possibilities. In doing so, we need to educate more people to see themselves as imaginative agents in whatever they do. Getting there means finding the right public-facing language to break through the destructive and misguided common conflation of imagination with how they are as artists or musicians. I fear creative shame is killing our innovative potential. Thus, there is work to be done!
To this, I want to work with allies like you to realize hopeful regenerative realities together. I dive into oportunities to practice collaborative creativity. Please, reach out to discuss how we can incite imaginative moments and communities.
Read more about my work here-Symecreative Imaginative Leadership Consulting: Grounded approches to igniting innovation
Hi Everyone!
I am excited to be invited to this community and the conversation. I work at Acadia U, Wolfville, NS Canada. I have had a terrific career teaching high school art for nearly 30 years and teaching & mentoring teachers for 20. Over that time I have followed my curiosity and drive to bring people back to their imaginative creativity.
Knowing the fertile ground to nourish imagination is required to see the innovations that realize a regenerative future, I am focussed on developing the tools and influencing the communities that could cultivate imagination.
Our imaginative capabilities are vital to exploring and conceiving novel routes to thriving in an unpredicatable world. And, where things like empathy and future visioning are imaginative capabilites, we need leaders who nourish these behaviours in everyone. As such, this was the focus of my doctoral thesis. I produced a grounded theoretical study into how leaders develop and deploy these capabilities. Now, I am focusing on applying my findings to help parents, teachers, and leaders help kids and communities develop imaginative capabilities.
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