Creative Caffeine
A dose of creativity stimulation
 to ignite fresh thinking
Stop trying to fix people. Try this instead.
How creative thinking skills transform work and home life.
Author: Celia Falkenberg
 We all have that person.
The colleague who drives you up the wall.
The partner who keeps shutting down.
The child who explodes, or implodes, when things don’t go their way.
And if we’re honest, sometimes we are that person.
We’ve been conditioned to respond to challenging behaviour with rewards, punishments and lectures. If they don’t behave? Give consequences. Withhold privileges. Get tougher. That’ll give them the willpower and motivation to do better.
But… what if everything we’ve been taught is dead wrong?
What if the key to helping people behave better—at work, at home, in life—isn’t about control or motivation? What if it’s about connection and a set of creative thinking skills?
I’ve been diving into the work of Dr Stuart Ablon, an award-winning psychologist, Harvard Medical School professor and author of the bestselling book Changeable: The Surprising Science Behind Helping Anyone Change....
Nina Pearse
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Nina Pearse is a dynamic and creative facilitator with a vision to transform business and society by helping people tap into their creativity. Nina has an honours degree in business science from the University of Cape Town. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Gordon Institute of Business Science.
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