Shape Your Ph.D. 5: Creating Creativity: Everyone is Creative

by GradFUTURES

Intensive workshop Careers & Professional Development GradFUTURES Learning Cohort Innovation/Entrepreneurship

Back to Shape Your Ph.D. 1: Connecting your Why: Threading Purpose, Meaning and Impact into the PhD experience

Thu, Oct 27, 2022

6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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GradFUTURES is pleased to launch “Shape your PhD”- an interdisciplinary learning cohort on Thursdays, Sep 22-Nov 10, 6-7.30 pm. This learning cohort, designed especially for G1 and G2 students, will involve active learning methods driving the direction of content. Over 6-7 sessions, join us to reimagine, explore and visualize a holistic PhD experience focused on your personal and professional growth.

We invite you to attend, even if you were unable to attend the past events of this cohort.

Session overview: This is the fifth session of Shape your PhD interdisciplinary learning cohort. Over the past few weeks you’ve heard from a number of exceptional speakers about the importance of discovery and creativity in your PhD experience. In these final sessions, we will practice being creative through a series of design exercises and discussions that will allow each of you to better understand what your personal modes of creativity might be, and how to identify the constraints and assumptions on our thinking that get us in the way of being creative and asking the great questions that lead to discovery. 

In this session, guest speaker Chris MacPherson ’08* will facilitate a series of interactive exercises where each of you can practice and understand the different ways you can be creative and conclude with a conversation on what is creativity? 
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Thu, Nov 10, 2022
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
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Shape Your Ph.D. 7 Conclusion: conceptual statements and concrete steps, takeaways and networking

GradFUTURES is pleased to launch “Shape your PhD”- an interdisciplinary learning cohort on Thursdays, Sep 22-Nov 10, 6-7.30 pm. This learning cohort, designed especially for G1 and G2 students, will involve active learning methods driving the direction of content. Over 7 sessions, join us to reimagine, explore and visualize a holistic PhD experience focused on your personal and professional growth.

This is the seventh and final session of Shape your PhD interdisciplinary learning cohort.
In this concluding session of Shape your PhD, we will discuss takeaways, key concepts from the series and how to implement them via concrete steps. This session will include networking and celebrations of the cohort.

Thu, Nov 03, 2022
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
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Shape Your Ph.D. 6: Identifying Constraints in Creativity

GradFUTURES is pleased to launch “Shape your PhD”- an interdisciplinary learning cohort on Thursdays, Sep 22-Nov 10, 6-7.30 pm. This learning cohort, designed especially for G1 and G2 students, will involve active learning methods driving the direction of content. Over 7 sessions, join us to reimagine, explore and visualize a holistic PhD experience focused on your personal and professional growth.

This is the sixth session of Shape your PhD interdisciplinary learning cohort.
Over the past few weeks you’ve heard from a number of exceptional speakers about the importance of discovery and creativity in your PhD experience. In these final sessions, we will practice being creative through a series of design exercises and discussions that will allow each of you to better understand what your personal modes of creativity might be, and how to identify the constraints and assumptions on our thinking that get us in the way of being creative and asking the great questions that lead to discovery.

In this session, guest speaker Chris MacPherson ’08* will discuss the various mental blocks that get in the way of being creative and how identifying, and lifting those constraints, can lead to better ideas. We will conclude with discussion on how (and when) we might apply creativity to PhD experience.