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MICROCREDENTIAL

Creative Intelligence Catalyser

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How can embracing creative intelligence help you forge new, creative solutions to complex challenges? Expand your approach to problem solving and be inspired with a suite of game-changing creative methods and practices to help you generate new ideas, insights and solutions.

It really helped me see the world, society and problems differently. It gave me skills to unpack problems and consider how people are a critical part of that understanding – to think through some of the assumptions that people have and the norms in society that sometimes limit your thinking and ability to think through solutions. I came in wanting work solutions particularly around how my organisation can be relevant, what our proposition was, and how to transition some major products that we developed so they're more relevant to our audiences. The course has definitely helped reframe my thinking, and I think differently about those areas now.

Hayley, verified Creative Intelligence Catalyser learner 2022

About this microcredential

Designed by UTS’s award-winning, global leaders in creative intelligence, this 6-week Creative Intelligence Catalyser course will propel your innovative practice to new heights, taking you through 24 creative tools and practices to add to your innovation toolkit.

With content drawn from the UTS TD School’s ground-breaking Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation program, this microcredential will introduce you to new and novel approaches that will reinvigorate and reenergise the way you generate, discover and explore new ideas, insights and solutions (as well as uncover blind spots).

Over six weeks, you will examine cutting-edge insights drawn from a diverse range of professional domains, including fields such as creative arts and neuroscience, to inform and fortify the creative capability of both individuals and collectives. Using this unique transdisciplinary approach, you are encouraged to cultivate a culture of curiosity, experimentation, playfulness and inventiveness while developing analytical, sensemaking and creative practices.

You will also develop skills for communication and advocacy of new approaches, concepts and ideas to stakeholders; a critical step in innovation adoption.

Delivered in a series of weekly, highly interactive, online workshops (meet virtually face-to-face in real time) by leading practitioner Dr Barbara Doran, Creative Intelligence Catalyser will unleash your creative capability to forge new, inventive solutions to the most complex challenges.

Key benefits of this microcredential

Mastering structured approaches to develop innovative, creative solutions to complex challenges is an increasingly valuable skill in any professional context or industry.

This course will provide you with invaluable tools to catalyse personal and collective creative capacities, augmented by a suite of sought-after tools and resources that can be adapted and expanded into future professional contexts. Supportive collegial networks (creative kin) will be nourished along with new ways of being a changemaker.

This microcredential aligns with the 3 credit point subject, Creative Practices and Methods (94710) in the Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation. This microcredential may qualify for recognition of prior learning at this and other institutions.

Who should do this microcredential?

Whatever field you are in – whether you’re working in a professional role in a corporation or in the public sector, are experienced in accelerators and start-ups, or are working in the creative industries – using creative approaches to drive innovation is a highly valued skillset that crosses all industries.

This course is suitable for all people, even those who don’t identify as ‘creative’. The methods and practices covered in the content will help you find and develop your creative muscle and thereby transform your innovation practice.

Price

Full price: $2,839 (GST-free)*

Special price: $2,592 (GST-free)*

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase. 

Discounts are available for this course. For further details and to verify if you qualify, please check the Discounts section under Additional course information. 

Enrolment conditions

  • Course purchase is subject to UTS Open Terms and Conditions. 

COVID-19 response 

  • UTS complies with latest Government health advice. Delivery of all courses complies with the UTS response to COVID-19.

Additional course information

Course outline

Creative Intelligence Catalyser consists of six, weekly, two-hour interactive online-facilitator-led sessions, with UTS TD School’s, Barbara Doran.

The microcredential will cover:

How to engage divergent thinking and ground new ideas in practical action by taking a journey that explores:

  • The value of play and how it fosters creativity
  • The art of thinking fast and questioning
  • Mobilising the power of visualisation
  • Harnessing communication as a research lens
  • Engaging with scale to find new perspectives.
  • Grounding insights through stories, metaphor and collective meaning.

Participants will also work collaboratively in teams to apply practices and skills to real-world problems, as well as engage with readings and reflections throughout the course.

Course delivery

This course will blend online workshops, ethnographic and ‘life as a lab’ experiments, interactive tools, discussion boards and a suite of curated resources.

Over the six weeks of the course, participants can expect a time commitment of approximately 10 hours per week, consisting of:

  • 2 hours of an online face-to-face workshop
  • 2-3 hours case study exploration and group work
  • 2-3 hours per week reading and reflection
  • 2-3 hours per week assessments.

Course learning objectives

Participants will:

  • Trial creative practices and methods from different disciplines, fields of practice and cultures to reveal new avenues for action
  • Propose an experiment that integrates creative approaches from a range of disciplines, and gauge its potential to generate new possibilities.

Assessment

Participants will be assessed across the following two tasks during the course:

  • Task 1: Experiments & discoveries exercises - group work, individually assessed (30%)
  • Task 2: Design experiment with proposed methods and learnings, individually assessed (70%)

To complete this course a pass is required in both assessments.

Requirements

Mandatory

  • To complete this online course, you will need a personal computer with adequate internet access and sufficient software and bandwidth to support web conferencing. You will also require an operating system with a web browser compatible with Canvas and Zoom. 

Other

  • There are no required texts or pre-readings for this course, but participants may benefit from the following: Pink, D.  2005 ‘A Whole New Mind. Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age’. Riverhead Books, New York.

Discounts

Discounts are available for this course as follows: 

  • UTS alumni/students 10% discount with voucher code: TDIalumni 
  • UTS staff 10% discount 

Discounts cannot be combined and only one discount can be applied per person per course session. Discounts can only be applied to the full price. Discounts cannot be applied to any offered special price. 

How to enrol and obtain your UTS staff discount (UTS staff)

  • Please contact the team at support@open.uts.edu.au in order to secure your enrolment and 10% staff discount.

How to apply your discount voucher 

  • If you are eligible for a UTS alumni or student discount, please ensure you have provided your UTS student number in your UTS Open Profile (under “A bit about you”). If you are an alumni and have forgotten your UTS student number, email support@utsopen.uts.edu.au with your full name, UTS degree and year of commencement.  
  • Add this course to your cart 
  • Click on "View Cart" (blue shopping trolley at top right of screen). You will need to sign in or sign up to UTS Open 
  • Enter your eligible code beneath the “Have a code?” prompt and click on the blue "Apply" button 
  • Verify your voucher code has been successfully applied before clicking on the blue "Checkout" button. 

In-house training or group enrolments 

  • If you are interested in in-house training opportunities or enrolling five or more people within your organisation, please contact us at td.learning@uts.edu.au.

 

$2,592.00

START DATE

27 March

MODE

Online

DURATION

6 wks

COMMITMENT

Avg 10 hrs/wk
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Meet the expert

Dr Barbara Doran

Dr Barbara Doran
Lecturer

Barbara Doran (PhD) specialises in identifying creative opportunities that respond to complex challenges and putting them in action.

She is an experienced speaker, mentor, educator, project innovator and artist who directs her energies to building our collective capacities to improve how we live.

Barbara has over 20 years’ experience in working in the realms of collective wellbeing, including public health, urban and regional planning, health psychology and the arts. Her skills are drawn from working across the arts, the tertiary sector and from project experience in the private, public and community sectors which bring together practical, scholarly, imaginative, playful and collaborative outcomes.

Barbara's work is directed towards knowledge translation and social impact and is specifically transdisciplinary. In this mix, she has exhibited artwork nationally and internationally, been involved in numerous film productions, performances, cultural events and community development projects.

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Mon 27 Mar 2023 -
Fri 05 May 2023
Expert: Dr Barbara Doran
  • This course runs on Thursday evenings at 7-9pm, and will be facilitated online via Zoom video sessions. Learners will also need to undertake approximately 3-6 hours of self-directed online learning activities during the week. Assessments may be due throughout the final week of the course.
  • Online
  • 6 sessions, 12 hours total
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    Thu 30 March 2023
    7:00 PM - 9: 00 PM
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    Thu 06 April 2023
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Thu 13 April 2023
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Thu 20 April 2023
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Thu 27 April 2023
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Thu 04 May 2023
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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To complete this online course you will need a personal computer or device with a reliable internet access and an operating system with a web browser compatible with Canvas and Zoom.

Enrolments are scheduled to close Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 11.59pm (AEST).

Mon 06 Nov 2023 -
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Expert: Dr Barbara Doran
  • This course runs on Wednesday evenings at 7-9pm, and will be facilitated online via Zoom video sessions. Learners will also need to undertake approximately 3-6 hours of self-directed online learning activities during the week. Assessments may be due throughout the final week of the course.
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  • 6 sessions, 12 hours total
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    Wed 08 November 2023
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Wed 15 November 2023
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Wed 22 November 2023
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Wed 29 November 2023
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Wed 06 December 2023
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    Wed 13 December 2023
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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To complete this online course you will need a personal computer or device with a reliable internet access and an operating system with a web browser compatible with Canvas and Zoom.

Enrolments are scheduled to close Monday, 30 October 2023, 11.59pm (AEST).

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