Experiential Exercise 2

Developing Your Personal Creativity:

This exercise is designed to help you develop your personal creativity. To enhance your creativity you
should make improvements in the following areas:

1- Personal Development (self-discipline, self-awareness, self- confidence, improvement in energy

level).
2- Problem- solving skills (Problem-recognition)
3- Mental fluency (quality of thoughts/ideas)
4- Mental flexibility (switching gears/approaches)
5- Originality (unusual thoughts and ideas)
It is best to start small and work on a few things at a time. Follow the step-by-step approach
listed next. Use the accompanying worksheet to help you design a personal creativity program.
1- Choose one of the five areas for improvement listed (for example, mental fluency).
2- Establish a specific objective for this area (for example, to increase your ability to generate
logical and intuitive solution to problem at work)
3- Decide how much time you will give to this program (for example, three hours per week).
4- Decide how long you will work in this area (for example, one month, and two months).
5- Decide what actions you will take and what exercises you will perform to improve in this
area (for example, sentence-creation, exercises, usage idea, meditation, suspension of initial
judgments).
6- Set up an outline of your program (that is, day of week, time of day, place and what you will
do during this time).
7- Review your program after completion, and write a similar program for another one of the
five areas for improvement.

Personal Creativity Program Worksheet

Areas of Improvement ____________________________________

Specific Objective ____________________________________
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Number of hours per week ____________________________________
Duration of Program ____________________________________
Actions/exercises ____________________________________
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Outline of Program.
Day of the week
Time of Day
Place
Actions that Day