#13: Daniel Cape - (15+) Focused Episode: How Team Builders Can Leverage Creativity for Themselves and Their Groups

In this special Focused episode, Daniel and Chris talk about creativity - being creative, thinking about creativity and being open to creativity. Daniel is the author of, From Experience to Creativity: The Experiential Educators Incomplete Guide to Creativity and the creator of the Epic Cards: Tools for Teaching and Promoting Creativity. He tells us that he wanted to produce a resource to "develop a language around creativity and a way understand it..." Daniel emphasizes, if we can "normalize the parts of the creative process" [especially the idea that failure is part of the process], it will be easier to take creative risks. Along with accepting failure as part of creativity, we also need to be compassionate - with ourselves and with others. Creativity is a powerful tool. If we, as team builders, can understand creativity, and all the different ways we are creative, our programs can become places for new ideas and new understandings related to creativity. "It is my belief that [everyday creativity] is most important for experiential educators [team builders] to be aware of and foster in participants, not only because it's open to everyone, but, because it addresses the everyday challenges of participants and facilitators." Daniel CapeDaniel's TEDx Talk: A Deeper Understanding of CreativityWe hope you join us! Find all Show Notes and Episodes HEREThis podcast is another facet in a network of resources being developed in an ongoing effort to help team builders, all over the world, learn and grow:OnTeamBuilding Blog - Conversations about a variety of team building topicsAsk Michelle & Chris About Team Building - Podcast for Team BuildersFUNdoing - Activity Resources for Team Builders (Blog, Store, Trainings)FUNdoing Fridays - Bi-monthly email of activities (sign up form at this page)TeamBuilderPowerUps - A growing online school of resources for team buildersYoungTeamBuilders - The voices of new team builders