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Step into the fascinating world of thought, feeling, behaviour, and identity. This event explores how we organise the world around us, how creativity and innovation can be nurtured through playful methods, and how ADHD shapes educational experience and inclusion. Through talks including How consumers categorise the cacophony of consumable creations; The psychology of how we organise., Tools for creativity and innovation, and Alternative Provision and ADHD – a formula for success or failure?, audiences will discover how the mind influences the way we learn, create, and connect with the world.
How consumers categorise the cacophony of consumable creations; The psychology of how we organise.
Tom White
(PhD Researcher, Senior GTA and Personal Development Coach)
In today’s fast-paced, online world, we’re surrounded by more information and consumer products than ever. To make sense of it all, our brains rely on a simple but powerful tool: categorisation. Grouping things together helps us learn quickly, make decisions, stay safe, incorporate new things, and navigate everyday life.
But here’s the big question; do we all see and sort the world in the same way?
In this short, interactive talk, Tom White will share insights from his PhD research at the University of Warwick, exploring how personality and thinking styles shape the way we organise what we encounter. Are you a big-picture thinker or someone who zooms in on details? Do traits like materialism or a love of pleasure influence how you classify things? Tom’s research sheds light on these very questions.
Join Tom to explore some of the subtleties of how we categorise, with a specific focus on consumer products, and reflect on your own strategies for making sense of the world. You’ll leave with a fresh perspective on a process so fundamental that we rarely stop to think about it!
But here’s the big question; do we all see and sort the world in the same way?
In this short, interactive talk, Tom White will share insights from his PhD research at the University of Warwick, exploring how personality and thinking styles shape the way we organise what we encounter. Are you a big-picture thinker or someone who zooms in on details? Do traits like materialism or a love of pleasure influence how you classify things? Tom’s research sheds light on these very questions.
Join Tom to explore some of the subtleties of how we categorise, with a specific focus on consumer products, and reflect on your own strategies for making sense of the world. You’ll leave with a fresh perspective on a process so fundamental that we rarely stop to think about it!
Tools for creativity and innovation
Professor Richard Tomlins
(Visiting Professor in Leadership and Management at Alfred Nobel University, Ukraine)
This session will outline a series of playful approaches rooted in ""Design Thinking"" which you can use for personal and organisational development.
Design Thinking originated at Stanford University and is a valuable approach for addressing challenges and creating innovative and entrepreneurial solutions.
It is a human-centric, iterative, collaborative, democratic and action oriented approach using a flexible five-stage process (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test) to foster innovation by deeply understanding user needs, challenging assumptions and rapidly creating and testing tangible solutions to complex problems.
It shifts focus from simply the problem to user-specific solutions, promoting learning by doing.
We will discuss the role of ""play"" in the organisational settings in this context of our work in the UK for the Cabinet Office and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, work in Ukraine, Mexico and Brasil.
We will provide you with examples of play in the context of disruptive exercises (!!), Theory of Change and strategic planning, organisational planning and the development of new initiatives.
We'll leave you wanting more!
Design Thinking originated at Stanford University and is a valuable approach for addressing challenges and creating innovative and entrepreneurial solutions.
It is a human-centric, iterative, collaborative, democratic and action oriented approach using a flexible five-stage process (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test) to foster innovation by deeply understanding user needs, challenging assumptions and rapidly creating and testing tangible solutions to complex problems.
It shifts focus from simply the problem to user-specific solutions, promoting learning by doing.
We will discuss the role of ""play"" in the organisational settings in this context of our work in the UK for the Cabinet Office and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, work in Ukraine, Mexico and Brasil.
We will provide you with examples of play in the context of disruptive exercises (!!), Theory of Change and strategic planning, organisational planning and the development of new initiatives.
We'll leave you wanting more!
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