Our sixteenth episode of the Creative Flow: Thinkers and Change Agents Podcast Series features Jennifer Gippel Ph.D. and Paulina Larocca, both living in Australia and graduates with an MS from the Center for Applied Imagination SUNY, Buffalo State. Jennifer delivers research writing workshops, facilitates creative thinking workshops, and won a prestigious award for a recently published paper. Paulina is the author of three published books on creativity and has her own consulting business in creativity training for NGOs and corporations. She leverages a 20-year career as an innovation expert for large multinational drink companies.

Jennifer and Paulina are both passionate about writing, researching, and training on topics related to creativity. They discuss their partnership setting up a platform for writing about the Science of Creativity on Medium.com called Creative Enlightenment. Medium.com is a social media site designed for authors that want to write long-form articles about their area of expertise.  Through setting up this platform (search for Creative Enlightenment under publications), recruiting authors, and holding training, they have grown as individuals and formed a new community.

Jennifer shared how she came to know about deliberate creativity through an online MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) called How to Ignite Your Everyday Creativity and how it opened up a world of thinking. As an Innovation Manager for a large organization, Paulina was curious about the relationship between Innovation and Creativity and discusses how writing her books have contributed to the field.

Jennifer and Paulina share their views on the future of Creativity as a skill and a way to solve big problems such as climate change.  They each describe their creative flow and how they see writing as a way to contribute to diverse points of view, create opportunities to learn more deeply about topics, and share experiences.

Paulina and Jennifer encourage you to be a part of a worldwide community of authors who share their personal experiences on practical aspects of creativity on the medium.com platform. To get involved, contact [email protected] and check out a Master Class they are presenting to make writing easier and stress-free.