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When you hear about creativity, do you think it is a particular quality that is reserved for artists? How creative would you consider yourself in your everyday life and at work? Do you necessarily have to write books or do painting in order to be creative?
Creativity is an inner quality of each human being. Creativity is like a muscle, it can be trained. Creativity helps us find original solutions to difficult problems, and it may be the needed tool to solve climate change and other societal challenges.
In this episode, I talk with Stephen Boucher, CEO of Dreamocracy, a public-interest serving consultancy that promotes "collective creativity for the common good" as well as founder and manager of NGO “Smarter Together”. Stephen has more than 25-years of experience in policy and politics. He is an ardent advocate of creative approaches in public policies and helping change makers become more creative. With Stephen, we discuss what is creativity, how everyone can nourish and nurture their creativity, how public policies need to become more creative to be able to address current challenges. Stephen generously shares practical information, resources and tools that one can apply to think more creatively in individually and collectively.
(15) Stephen Boucher | LinkedIn
Collective Intelligence for stronger democracy - Smarter Together (smarter-together.org)
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Go
Hope Matters – Greystone Books Ltd.
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00:00 Introduction
01:27 The Role of Imagination in Solving Climate Change
20:27 Understanding Collective Intelligence
22:56 Exploring Collective Creativity and Creative Thinking
32:30 Creativity in Public Affairs and Administration
33:30 Inspiring Stories of Creative Solutions
35:44 The Creative Solutions to traffic delinquencies in Bogota, Colombia
38:12 Characteristics of Creative Solutions and the Importance of Timeliness
43:38 The Four Phases of the Creative Problem-Solving Process
45:05 Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Creative Problem-Solving
49:19 Identifying Creative Strengths with the Foresight Test
54:03 The Three Key Ingredients for Creativity