{"id":2005,"date":"2015-06-11T18:55:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T02:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2015-06-11T18:55:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T02:55:27","slug":"creativity-stimulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"Creativity Stimulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new technology that derives from drama and theatre, and more particularly improvised theatre. Its goal is <em>creativity stimulation<\/em>. We\u2019ve been building creativity for a few centuries, and in the last few generations promoting creativity itself has become a goal. Now we have a technology for it:<\/p>\n<p>&#160; 1. Get people together sharing and encouraging each other, saying \u201cyes, and&#8230;\u201d rather than \u201cNo, but&#8230;.\u201d It\u2019s cooperation rather than competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; 2. Then, in that group, set up \u201cexperiments,\u201d improvised enactments. It\u2019s a technology!<\/p>\n<p>&#160;&#160; 3. Use imaginative enhancements taken from psychodrama and other sources. This mixture of co-encouraging group process, improvised enactments, and imaginative enhancements constitute a dynamic technology, like electricity and other components of radios\u2014and receivers!<\/p>\n<p>Further ideas are drawn from a variety of related endeavors, including applied improvisation, sociodrama, psychodrama, simulations, drama therapy, Playback Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, bibliodrama, process drama in education, spontaneity training, warm-up activities, theatre games, and so forth.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new technology that derives from drama and theatre, and more particularly improvised theatre. Its goal is creativity stimulation. We\u2019ve been building creativity for a few centuries, and in the last few generations promoting creativity itself has become a goal. Now we have a technology for it: &#160; 1. Get people together sharing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-psychodrama","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}