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.

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