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Play and Creativity in Adult Life

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6 sessions · twice a week

Play and Creativity in Adult Life

Play and Creativity
in Adult Life

How to identify it, develop it, and apply it

Course Outline

Lecture Excerpt

Course Outline

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About the Course

Play and Creativity in Adult Life is a course on how to guide development and change through understanding the sequence of natural cognitive modes — Play → Learning → Creativity → Routine — where creativity is understood as a specific methodology of thinking, and routine as the framework through which results are consolidated. You will learn to understand which mode a person or team is currently operating in and to design the environment — rules, freedom, workload, feedback, and quality criteria — so that transitions happen without breaking motivation, causing burnout, or triggering sabotage.

For parents, this knowledge provides a clear developmental path for a child; for managers, it offers a practical technology for managing change in times of crisis.

Сознание человека — уникальный био-социальный феномен, в котором сочетаются два взаимосвязанных контура: материально-ориентированный и творчески-познавательный. В курсе этот феномен представлен как динамическая иерархическая модель, позволяющая видеть, как меняются восприятие, мышление и поведение в зависимости от уровня организации сознания.

Курс учит применять эту модель как практический диагностический инструмент: быстро определять, на каком уровне сознания действует человек или команда, понимать, почему под давлением материальных факторов резко сужается картина мира и усиливаются искажения, и — через точные смысловые рамки и прикладные алгоритмы — возвращать ясность, чувство контроля и повышать качество управленческих решений в ежедневной коммуникации и в кризисе.

Play and Creativity in Adult Life is a course on how to guide development and change through understanding the sequence of natural cognitive modes — Play → Learning → Creativity → Routine — where creativity is understood as a specific methodology of thinking, and routine as the framework through which results are consolidated. You will learn to understand which mode a person or team is currently operating in and to design the environment — rules, freedom, workload, feedback, and quality criteria — so that transitions happen without breaking motivation, causing burnout, or triggering sabotage.

For parents, this knowledge provides a clear developmental path for a child; for managers, it offers a practical technology for managing change in times of crisis.

Play and Creativity in Adult Life is a course on how to guide development and change through understanding the sequence of natural cognitive modes — Play → Learning → Creativity → Routine — where creativity is understood as a specific methodology of thinking, and routine as the framework through which results are consolidated. You will learn to understand which mode a person or team is currently operating in and to design the environment — rules, freedom, workload, feedback, and quality criteria — so that transitions happen without breaking motivation, causing burnout, or triggering sabotage.

For parents, this knowledge provides a clear developmental path for a child; for managers, it offers a practical technology for managing change in times of crisis.

Goals

Master a map of development and change

Understand the logic of transitions — Play → Learning → Creativity → Routine — and learn to accurately diagnose the current mode of a person, team, or child.

Learn to manage transitions through the environment

Adjust rules, degree of freedom, workload, feedback, and quality criteria so that new behavior becomes natural and repeatable.

Make results sustainable

Turn ideas and initiative into consolidated skills and working practices without burnout, sabotage, or a decline in motivation.

Who This Course Is For

Who This Course Is For

Parents who want to consciously shape a child’s developmental path: where to allow freedom, where to introduce rules, how not to suppress initiative through evaluation and control, and how to turn skills into a sustainable routine of quality.

Parents who want to consciously shape a child’s developmental path: where to allow freedom, where to introduce rules, how not to suppress initiative through evaluation and control, and how to turn skills into a sustainable routine of quality

Change leaders and managers who need to guide teams through transformation without sabotage or burnout: from experiment to learning, and from learning to a new standard of work.

HR / T&D / L&D professionals who design programs for growth, adaptation, and upskilling and want to understand which formats work best at different stages.

HR / T&D / L&D professionals who design programs for growth, adaptation, and upskilling and want to understand which formats work best at different stages.

Experts and specialists who feel they have hit a ceiling: many ideas but no systemic results — or, on the contrary, strong discipline but little living creativity.

Team leads, product leaders, and project managers who introduce processes, change rules and metrics, and want to do so through a model rather than by intuition.

Change leaders and managers who need to guide teams through transformation without sabotage or burnout: from experiment to learning, and from learning to a new standard of work.

Experts and specialists who feel they have hit a ceiling: many ideas but no systemic results — or, on the contrary, strong discipline but little living creativity.

Team leads, product leaders, and project managers who introduce processes, change rules and metrics, and want to do so through a model rather than by intuition.

Teachers, mentors, and coaches for whom it is important to see what is currently forming in a learner and how to guide them appropriately through changing modes.

Teachers, mentors, and coaches for whom it is important to see what is currently forming in a learner and how to guide them appropriately through changing modes.

Course Outline

[ number of sessions ]

6 sessions of 2 hours each

[ schedule ]

twice a week

[ 1 ]

Methodological foundations of creativity

The language of the observer: the structure of S–O relations. Creativity: core definitions and the law of development. S. Reiss’s 16 basic desires.

[ 2 ]

The genesis of intelligence. Individual stage-by-stage transformation and social influence

Stages of intellectual development according to J. Piaget. Two comfort zones. Core laws of development according to L. Vygotsky.

[ 3 ]

Practical session

The dialectics of thinking. Agency audit. The boundary between ZEFK and ZKK.

[ 3 ]

Practical session

The dialectics of thinking. Agency audit. The boundary between ZEFK and ZKK.

[ 4 ]

Human development in childhood and adolescence. Part 1

Stages of child and adolescent development as the foundation for creative realization in adult life.

[ 5 ]

Human development in childhood and adolescence. Creativity and Routine. Part 2

Two types of adult social activity: creative activity and meaningless life. Changing states and the conscious choice of activity.

[ 6 ]

Practical session

Discussion of self-reflection texts describing shifts between states of activity

[ 4 ]

Practical session

Discussion of self-reflection texts describing shifts between states of activity.

Format and Conditions

Format and Conditions

The course includes six online Zoom sessions: four theoretical and two practical.

During the practical sessions, we learn to apply the dialectical method and analyze participants’ personal cases, which helps consolidate the theory and apply it to real-life situations.

After completing the course, participants receive access to:

  • session recordings

  • written materials

  • presentations.

Excerpt from an online lecture in the course:

Questions

Questions

1.

Что я реально получу после курса «Игра и творчество в жизни взрослых людей»?

1.

Что я реально получу после курса «Игра и творчество в жизни взрослых людей»?

2.

Эти знания помогут мне понять как уменьшить сопротивление, истерики, саботаж и выгорание?

3.

Где я смогу сразу применю эти знания?

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