November 10, 2008: Notes from the "Imaginative Trainers Workshop" - Mike Katagiri

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Mike Katagiri presented two group creativity methods he learned from the Institute of Cultural Affairs: 1) Focused Conversation and 2) Consensus workshop. He then facilitated the participants in a short demonstration of how the methods can help groups quickly create strategies and tactics to answer questions such as: "What can we do to make our training courses more effective?" Here is what the group created in about one hour:

• LEARNING FROM SELF ○ Self discovery ○ Self reflection ○ Risk taking ○ Reflection ○ Formative evaluation (evaluating after every phase)

• LEARNING FROM OTHERS ○ Collaboration ○ Directed small group discussion ○ "Improv-able" (using improvisation)

• LEARNER'S EXPERIENCE ○ Building connections with stories ○ Learner's stories ○ Bad example (example of what not to do)

• PLENTIFUL RESOURCES ○ (i.e. Many people brainstorming)

• SHIFT PERSPECTIVE ○ Experimentation ○ Speed brainstorming ○ Role play ○ Simulation ○ "Brain dance"

• IMPRINTING ○ Repetition ○ Keep it simple

• LEARNER'S DISPOSITIONS ○ Curiosity ○ Stay present, engaged, curious

• VISUALS ○ Write big ○ Being graphic

• LEARNING STYLES ○ Visual ○ Audio ○ Kinesthetic

• (LEARNER-CENTRICITY) ○ Needs based front end analysis ○ Remember what its like not to know

• (ENGAGING) ACTIONS ○ Engaging / Fast paced ○ Involve movement ○ Doing

• (BUILD MODELS) ○ Thiagi's "Framing Model" ○ Build an idea out of Legos