International Creativity Conference South Africa; Problem-Based Learning + Creativity Facilitation for EDUCATORS

Daberechi Okedurum Facilitating @ACRE EDU12. Photo Credit: Robert Alan-Black

Daberechi Okedurum Facilitating @ACRE EDU12. Photo Credit: Robert Alan-Black

Group Presentation during Daberechi Okedurum’s Workshop @ACRE EDU12. Photo Credit: Robert Alan-Black

Our lead facilitator Daberechi Okedurum was one of the global team of facilitators at the Annual International Creativity Conference for Educators which held at the Klein Kariba resort Bela Bela South Africa 8-11 October, 2017.

In his 90 minutes workshop themed; ‘Gaining Mastery in teaching Students of all ages HOW to think, not WHAT to think’, participants where practically guided using Creative Problem Solving tools on how to foster Student-Centered learning in their classrooms hence, inspiring students/learners to be Creative thinkers, Collaborators and Life-long learners. The workshop session had Educators and Creativity Practitioners from the Netherlands, Canada and South Africa.

The conference is a unique gathering of educators from around the globe to interact, learn, listen and train in creativity related directly to education. Top educationists, leaders in innovation and creative geniuses lead the event in how to integrate creativity into education to optimise the potential of all learners.

“We do not know about tomorrow, what if what tomorrow holds was not shared with me in class today, am I ready to face it?” Daberechi Okedurum

Think | Create | Take Action; Making Innovation Happen Short Course, Global Creativity Discuss, Enactus Nigeria Leadership Training & Hult Prize Semi Finalist

Last quarter of 2016 and first quarter of 2017 has been an exciting experience at IdeationHouse, we have been privileged to Facilitate Creative Thinking and Problem Solving session for staff and students at Covenant University’s Centre of Entrepreneurship Development Studies’ Making Innovation Happen Short course. Our presence in Covenant University enabled us work with four Postgraduate student-owned Social Enterprise Teams implementing business solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (Nigeria currently have 3.3 million of them); two out of these four teams made it to the semi-final round of the Hult Prize Social Enterprise Competition, representing the school in London and Dubai.

In February 2017, we engaged 120 student leaders from over 30 Nigerian higher institutions in a Creative Thinking and Problem Solving session to help them develop innovative social impact projects in their respective locations. This meeting was organized by Enactus Nigeria  an international nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring students to improve the world through entrepreneurial action. Enactus provide a platform for teams of outstanding university students to create community development projects that put people’s own ingenuity and talents at the center of improving their livelihoods.

Just like we did in South Africa October 2016 (see video of IdeationHouse’s trainer Daberechi Okedurum at Acre South Africa in a design thinking class), we have continued with joining discussion on Creativity. Daberechi Okedurum recently was a guest speaker at Pepperdine University Malibu California where he shared with the business graduate students on global Creativity, bringing to light the Nigerian Perspective to the practice of Creativity.

Daberechi Speaking to Business Graduate Students at Pepperdine University

Think | Create | Take Action; 2016 Annual Creative Problem Solving Institute

Extending Session; CPS in Action – CPSI 2016

Tools and Techniques Session- CPSI 2016

We were at the annual Creative Problem Solving Institute Buffalo New York, United States from June 14-19, 2016.

Ideation House’s Trainer Daberechi Okedurum was engaged as a participant as well as one of the Spotlight speakers and extending session facilitators to share our creative work and learn new CPS tools; we look forward to sharing these tools with our clients and trainees.

The Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) is a major platform for delivering training to a diverse cross section of business leaders, educators, community activists, students, and more.

Over 100 practitioners and CEF members join together for a week to train others on the process, tools, and techniques of creative problem solving and innovation. With about 500 people attending annually, this is the largest conference of its kind.

THINK | CREATE | TAKE ACTION; Street Project Bootcamp 2016

Thursday 5th May, 2016 we took an amazing team of CREATIVES through the Creative Problem Solving process. The key focus was on applying the CPS process in drafting a feasible plan, identifying and using available resources to implement enterprising ideas with their skills.

The three-week Creative Youth Boot Camp themed ‘Do what you love’ is an intiative of Street Project Foundation with support from the U.S Consulate in Lagos. The goal of the camp is to train one hundred young people from ages 16 to 25 years on life skills using Performing Arts as the tool for engagement. It held at The Brook, 6, Point Road, GRA, Apapa, Lagos.

 

 

THINK | CREATE | TAKE ACTION; ideation Weekend

March 26th, 2016 was the Maiden Edition for Ideation Weekend, and Yes!!! We applied the Creative Problem Solving Process mixed with interesting Creative exercises and walking across the Longest Canopy Walkway in Africa was an awesome Experience.

Join us for the next edition to Think | Create | Take Action