Collaborative Creativity
Collaborative Creativity: Invite others to influence and transform your ideas
Creativity isn’t the art of making something out of nothing, but of making anything out of everything. As creators, many of us know that our ideas don’t arrive out of nowhere. They are the product of everything we have taken in with our eyes and ears, even when we may not know it. Because of this, our most powerful tool is collaboration–the practice of compounding the experiences, perspectives, and knowledge of others.
But collaboration can be tough. Because we are unique in our ways of thinking, solving, exploring, and sharing, we need to practice the skills of relating to others to truly let new ideas in–even and especially those we can’t stand.
In this course, we will learn to listen to others with curiosity and non-judgment, to become aware of our biases and blindspots, to fight against the impulse to “own” our work and to share our wins and losses joyfully. It is deep inner work with potent outer results.
Join us for 5 weeks of co-creation, inspiration, and collective genius.
See the facilitator, Karen Faith, in action in this video case study.
Loosen our grip on the authorship and ownership of ideas in order to allow collective intelligence and creative chemistry to do its magic.
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Format
Live Workshops (Virtual)
Duration
5 sessions- 90-minutes each
Audience
Strategists, Creatives, Designers
Pricing
Pricing is customized based on your agency's needs
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Session Outline
5 Live (Virtual) Workshops
1: For Your Eyes Only: Empathy & Design Thinking
Perspective-taking begins with listening deeply. In this session, we’ll practice specific techniques to listen and understand with curiosity and non-judgment.
2: Speaking To The Idea: Giving & Taking Feedback
Feedback as we practice it isn’t conflict, coaching, or critique. It is a way to share perspectives in alignment with shared goals.
3: Talent Borrows, Genius Steals: Sampling & Mashups
In this session, we embrace the work of others to seek out collective genius by juxtaposing, collaging, and splicing found work.
4: Greater Than The Sum: Curation & Chemistry
Cake, cupcakes, pancakes, and muffins are all made from the same ingredients. Learn to iterate like a pro by working with sequencing and proportions until the magic happens.
5: We’re In This Together: Sharing Praise & Blame
Whose idea is it anyway? Our final session gets a little spiritual as we explore the idea that we are truly in this together. Not to be missed, this one is the big picture.
Meet the Facilitator
Karen Faith
Founder and CEO, Karen Faith is an ethnographer, strategist, and creator of the Others curriculum. With two decades of experience in ethnographic discovery to inform marketing, branding, and product design, her work utilizes tools from multiple disciplines to empower teams to define, understand, and solve problems from the granular to the grandiose.
Karen’s findings, talks and workshops have guided brands as diverse as Google, Amazon, Applebee’s, The NBA, The ACLU, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Federal Reserve Bank, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Karen is an alumnus of the Hyper Island Business Transformation course in Stockholm, Sweden, and a recipient of the Dwight Conquergood Award for ethnographic research at Performance Studies International in London.
As a speaker, she has shared her approach with executives, leaders, innovators, creatives, and community members all over the world. Her TEDx talk on Unconditional Welcome has received over 1M views.
