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Affiliation
Title
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Sheridan College
Patrice Esson
Francisco Martinez and
Emilio Vera
Certificate in Creative
Leadership and Facilitation
for Innovation Mexico City
Bernie Murray
Ryerson University
Juliana Sanchez-Trujillo
Erica Swiatek
University of la Sabana
Innovate Faster
2B:
Creative Problem Solving when you are Teaching Creative Problem Solving
Creative thinking and creative problem solving courses are often popular undergraduate courses. Many professors prefer
to teach such courses to small classes. However, sometimes student demand and enrollment leads to larger classes. This
session explores the challenges associated with, and solutions generated for, teaching and conducting creative problem
solving facilitation within the context of moderately large classes of 40 to 60 students. The workshop will cover all aspects of
planning - and executing creative problem solving facilitations in the context of an undergraduate course. We will explore
both the pedagogical considerations and logistical challenges of conducting facilitations over a four to five week period in
which each student serves as the client and his/her classmates serve as the creative problem solving facilitators and
resource group members. We will explore student sign ups, observing multiple concurrent sessions, giving feedback
among others. Reflections and best practices will be discussed.
Patrice Esson earned her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Virginia Tech. She has over 10 years of
experience teaching at the college and university levels. Her teaching repertoire includes introductory and advanced level
psychology and business management related courses. Patrice is also actively involved in curriculum development.
2C:
2E:
Play 2 Learn
This session will introduce current research on how play impacts learning and how learning is enhanced through play. Also,
an enhanced and easy to remember model for creative teaching and learning will be presented, as well as strategies on
how to use it to both plan and deliver classes. Building on the works of David Meier and E. Paul Torrance, this model
presents four different stages in the learning process: Preparing, Learning through Laughter, Accelerating and Yo-Yo effect.
The idea is to increase knowledge applicability and decrease training times.
Juliana Sanchez-Trujillo is a Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Professor at Sabana University in Bogota,
Colombia. She is a representative of New & Improved LLC in Latin America, a certified Lego Serious Play workshop
designer and facilitator, and a FourSight facilitator. Juliana holds a M.S. Creativity and Innovation from Buffalo State, State
University of New York and a B.A. Corporate Communications from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogota.
Erica Swiatek is a high energy, passionate, facilitator, consultant and trainer. Designing and delivering instructor-led
courses, games, and activities in creative problem solving, innovation, leadership skills, change management and team
building. She has several years of experience working with call centers and large health insurance companies. Erica
graduated from Buffalo State with a Masters of Science in Creativity and Change Leadership. She loved it so much she
became an adjunct faculty there and teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.