Seminar

Intensive Seminar on Creative Thinking

One of the biggest obstacles to finding creative, original and innovative solutions are our acquired stereotyped and mechanical ways to solve problems. In our desire to be loved, liked and accepted, we tend to speak and behave in terms we know a priori will please the society. The price we pay for it is very high. We give up our individuality, our unique and resourceful self.The saddest implication of this mechanical thinking is the fact that we are unprepared for the sudden changes our unpredictable world challenges us with. An up- to- date, innovative society, needsconscious, daring, creative, flexible and self-actualizing individuals. To actualize oneself means to function according to ones' abilities…to become ones' potentials..Recent creativity research points out that imaginative fantasyIs as important as goal - oriented rational thinking, for creativeoriginal problem-solving, for the creative process to find a solution. Life is a perpetual search for different ways to find and to solveproblems, to feel free to choose among them, to dare to try them out and be responsible for your choice. Life is a perpetual creative process. To understand the different stages in this creative process, to activate bipolar thinking (imagination and logic, subjective and objective, intra- and interpersonal communication) to know the theoretical aspects, to experience the practical exercises - are the helpful conditions to free the creative potentials buried sometimes under layers of habits and inhibitions.These conditions could help to develop the creative attitude, to become a general factor in the personality which will find the creative solutions in any existential or learning situation. Most of all we need this attitude in the very frequent crisis-situations in our present life. The future might find us unprepared; therefore we must learn how to create new ways, new reactions, new solutions.

The ability to cope with the future is in us. We have only to free it … and learn how to use it creatively.

Dr. Erika Landau is an expert in creativity research. She applies itIn several fields of interest. Her books and articles, published in 9 languages, deal with the creative approach to education in general, to psychotherapy with adults and to giftedness in children.She sees the aim of her work to uncover and develop creative abilities in her students as well as in the adults she takes care of.She will share with us her experience, in theory as well as in practical exercises (relaxation, guided imagery, logic and fantasy, Imagination and intelligence, idea generating and idea developing).

Contact email: erica@ypipce.org.il