The Global Creativity Initiative Podcast
The Global Creativity Initiative Network shares academic research for practical insights, information and application of our human superpower. Creativity is within all of us. We can and must learn to become more creative. If you haven't heard, creativity is now one of the most important skills of our time. And if you're not sure about all this 'creativity stuff,' we've got you covered. Our team gets it. We're here to translate the scholarly field of creativity into every day, accessible language and tools for all humanity. Example: The Reisman Center for Translational Research on Creativity and Motivation does exactly this. The frcenter.net provides easily available modules, tools and assistance for the development of creativity in education, professional life and yes, everyday creativity every day. Together is better.
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Episodes
35 episodes
What's Your What? Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation as Factors of CreativityWhat motivates us ? Explore the relationship between intrinsic motivation, the enjoyment of a task itself; and extrinsic motivation, including rewards, encouragement, and ...
M-E-B-B-E So.
What changes when we respond to an unexpected idea with “maybe so”?In this interview, Dr. Tanya Knudsen and Dr. Freddie Reisman explore how that small shift can make room for creative thinking. Drawing on Freddie’s work with Dr. E...
Master Class: The Hows of Learning
Learning, Creativity, and Leadership: How Meaningful Learning HappensThis episode opens a three part masterclass on learning, creativity, and leadership with Dr. Freddie Reisman, a longtime educator and leader in creativity research, and...
Creativity is Energy
In this episode, the tables are turned as Dr. Robert Cleve interviews GCI podcast host Dr. Tanya Knudsen on her perspectives about creativity and the lessons she has gathered from conversations with creativity scholars and practitioners in the ...
Creativity is a Tool
🎙️ Podcast Show NotesCreativity in Surgery: A Conversation PhD Candidate Alex Thabane, 2026 Ruth Noller Research Grant RecipientThis episode explores how creativity shows up in structured fields like medicine and surgery, inspired...
Creativity is Curiosity
🎙️ Podcast Show Notes: Unlocking Creativity in Everyone🌱 Creativity Starts EarlyAs children, we naturally see ourselves as creative. We ask questions, explore freely, and follow curiosity without fear. But over time, many people l...
Creativity is Imagination Made Real
Podcast Show Notes: Creativity in a Conformist World 🎙️In this episode, we explore how creativity works, why modern systems often train us for conformity, and why creativity is essential for participating fully in a rapidly changi...
Creativity is Play
This conversation reframes creativity as something practical, powerful, and accessible to all of us.✨ Creativity Is a ProcessCreativity isn’t random inspiration. It can be practiced. Taught. Scaffolded.When we approa...
Creativity is Searching
What does putting on a play have to do with running a business?More than we think.When you put on a play, you gather people around an idea. You work with limited resources. You solve problems constantly. You trust each other. You ...
Creativity is Bold
Creativity requires boldness. To create is to take a risk—and that boldness exists on a continuum from benevolent to malevolent. History shows us that creativity is often misunderstood at first: artistic breakthroughs like Cubism were rejected ...
Creativity is Fulfillment
Creativity is abstract until we give it a lens. In this conversation with Dr. Robert Cleve, we explore how creativity becomes tangible through what is uniquely meaningful to each of us: art, language, movement, systems, relationships. Th...
Creativity is Difference
This podcast explores creativity as a fundamental human capacity and a way of engaging with possibility in everyday life. More than an individual trait, creativity is a social and cultural process shaped by traditions, language, values, and sha...
Creativity is a Catalyst
Creativity is a Catalyst: Reimagining Capitalism with PurposeGuest: Chris Grivas Ed.D.Bottom-line-first is a sure way to lose out. What if creativity c...
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Creativity is a Mindset
Creative Mindset: Unlocking Possibility Through Curiosity and CourageWhat if the thing holding you back from being creative… is simply the belief that you aren’t?In this episode, we sit down with Laura Barbaro Switalski, wh...
Creativity as a Through-line
Whether you're in a boardroom or a dance studio, creativity isn’t an add-on. It’s the through-line.In this episode, Janet Stormes dives deep into the powerful intersection of dance and business, revealing how the creative pro...
On Not Defining Creativity
In this thought-provoking episode, we’re joined by Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow, clinician, author, independent scholar, and expert in nonlinear dynamics and creativity. Based in Santa Monica, Dr. Marks-Tarlow bridges cutting-edge science and d...
Creativity is Confidence
In this episode, Pauliina Valpas, co-founder of Yellow Method AI in Finland, explores how creativity fuels innovation especially as a problem-solving process. From identifying the right challenge to implementing solutions, creativity is present...
Creativity is Complex Problem Solving
Season Three kicks off with an inspiring conversation featuring Dr. Teresa Lawrence, Program Director for the Creative Leadership and Innovation for Change PhD program in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Dr. Lawrence brings a wealth of insight...
Think Better, Feel Better Through Creativity
Unlock Your Creative PotentialLife can be tough, filled with challenges and blind spots. How to problem find and resolve amid s stormy sea of valid reasons and feelings is messy. As Dr. Hector Ramos from Texas A&M University w...
Spark Your Creativity
Want to become more creative? Do what the creative geniuses do.To be creative it to be schooled in imagination. Dr Robert Root-Bernstein defines creativity as problem solving. No big surprise there perhaps....
Creativity is a HOW
Newsflash: You're already creative and your brain may be blocking your creativity. Clearly, this is an important question - How to unblock what's in the way of your creativity? Pete Ophoven address...
Radical Creativity
Creativity is often thinking differently inside the box. A box is a constraint, rather like time and money. And then again, sometimes a new box is needed. What worked before what won't work now. The world truly is messy place. ...
Creativity a la Maltese
How might you become more creative? 1. Go to School at the DeBono Institute of the for Creative Thinking & Innovationat the University of Malta, yes, in the Mediterranean. Study creati...
Transformational Toolbox for Creativity
What weighs more, a pickle or pain? Pause. Become curious and wonder. Do this and you are on your way to accessing your very own unlimited natural resource: your creativity. Dr Kay elegantly ripples through riddles as just one sample skil...
