Narrative creativity training: A new method for increasing resilience in elementary students
December 2023 - Narrative creativity training has recently shown promise as a tool for increasing self-efficacy and resilience in adult learners. The results suggest the potential practical benefits of incorporating theater, literature, comics, and other story-based art into elementary school curricula.
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How Literature Leads to Creative Resilience
September 1, 2023 - “By training students how to intentionally grow why and what-if thinking, narrative creativity training can provide an actionable method that sustains creative problem-solving through setbacks.”
How to Be a Better Leader Amid Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity
September 28, 2023 - Your environment is changing fast. You lack the data to make confident decisions. Your operations sprawl with processes. You’re spotting trends that could be good — or not.
This is the No. 1 way to raise a resilient kid, new study says
September 3, 2023 - The most read article of its day on CNBC highlighting the results of our study on how creativity training boots resilience in elementary school children.
Boosting Their Creativity Helps Kids Face Life's Challenges, Study Finds
September 6, 2023 - Just like adults, kids face daily stressors. Luckily, a new study suggests that teaching them creative thinking can help them manage it all. Researchers found that when school-age children learned some "narrative creativity" techniques -- such as shifting your perspective and imagining "what if" scenarios -- they quickly became better problem-solvers.
Ohio State professor Angus Fletcher awarded U.S. Army medal for leadership training
March 7, 2023 - Angus Fletcher, a professor in The Ohio State University Department of English, has been awarded the U.S. Army’s Public Service Commendation Medal for training special operations personnel in leadership and decision-making skills.
10 Buckeye Innovators Striving for Thriving
Fall 2022 - Fletcher combines psychology, neuroscience and narrative theory to explore how stories can enhance creativity, empathy, problem-solving and resilience. Those seeking his help: trauma nurses, artificial intelligence experts, business and medical schools, environmental scientists and U.S. special forces.
Develop Leadership Skills Creativity for Entrepreneurs
What creativity really is, and how founders can use it to power their companies. “Creativity is about how you can be brave.”
A Better Approach to After-Action Reviews
January 12, 2023 - How do you fix a failing operation? How do you repeat unanticipated success? How do you ensure that catastrophe never happens again? Every organization has to ask questions like these.
October 2022 - Narrative theory is all about harnessing the power of the stories we tell ourselves. So ask yourself: “How do I write a new story in which these conflicting parts don’t compete, but actually feed and strengthen one another?”
Researchers Say They've Developed a Method That Can Train Anyone to Be Creative
They tested it successfully with the U.S. Army, at business schools, and in the C-suite
March 22, 2022 - “Could creativity training based less on logical rules and more on storytelling be massively more effective? ....[the] answer is a resounding yes.”
March 15, 2022 - While the ability of children to think creatively begins to decline after four or five years in school, the narrative approach can help people unlock the innovativeness they may have stopped using as they grew up.
A new method for training creativity: narrative as an alternative to divergent thinking
March 10, 2022 - In this article, we present an alternative approach to creativity training, based in neural processes different from those involved in divergent thinking and drawing upon a previously unused resource for creativity research: narrative theory.