Coach Creativity Skill: How and why.

by Graeme Smith

COACH..***..In any sport the best coaches change, improve or otherwise. modifybehaviour…***...Even in team sports, they also understand each athlete is different..***..Coach Creativity Skill is similar and like all sport is also non-cultural..***..Students and teachers in any culture, speaking any language, can benefit from Coach Creativity Skill.CREATIVITY is divergent + convergent thinking followed by an expressive act.A problem is required to trigger this action..***..but a problem can also generate other actions which are NOT creativity..***..years ago I had one of those ‘Eureka’ moments you may have heard about..***..some teachers stopped listening to what I was saying and became involved in what they were doing..***..that’s when I made an unexpected discovery - the teachers were exhibiting creativity! At that time I had read quite a few studies on creativity, creativeness and similar ideas..***..so at least I had an idea of what creativity was and could recognize it as well.Only after we know something we can start to find words for that knowledge..***..thus non-verbal education ought to be before anything based on language for that’s how we learn..***..creativity is the invention of new knowledge and is NOT language based!SKILL is an activity when the brain is changed by practice..***..it is not conscious – just done..***..NO talk just do..***..NO distractions..***..It’s practiced behavior..***..developed by repetition of a behaviour over a period of time..***..It is therefore built from situations where the behavior is limited..***..Creativity is a behavior, so like any other behavior, skill can be developed..***..People considered creative possess that skill..***..With practice comes control and we can predict what might happen..***..As we practice even more we become increasingly effective, and the results are better.Most really creative people work at this level as a result of years of experience..***..All children learn to solve problems for that’s how they learn to talk, walk and many other things..***..Adults learning the same things tend to be impatient and not to allow sufficient time for skill to develop..***..Developing any skill actually takes a lot of time. The sport of body building illustrates what should happen..***..The athlete completes many lifts of weights over a lengthy period of time..***..Small increments of additional weight are applied at regular intervals..***..Eventually the weight-lifter builds sufficient strength to lift very heavy weights..***..Weights that would have been impossible at the beginning of the training process.Many repetitions of anything with interest and motivation = skill development..***..Developing skilled creativity is no different!..***..Instead of a few seeming to be creative all students are, and can be more so.But how does someone develop high level autonomous creativity?..***..From this book you can find out by being in my role and have students behave like those teachers..***..There is NO group or individual who cannot be a student of this program..***..COACH CREATIVITY SKILL is not rocket science but common sense.

193 pages, Paperback

Published February 19, 2019