The CEF YouthWise Program may be used in a wide variety of settings and formats to teach young people creative thinking and the creative problem solving process and to help them use these skills and ideas to make a positive difference in their own lives, their communities and the wider world. The following briefly outlines the curriculum content and outcomes within the program.
- Developing Personal Creativity: Individually identify ways you see yourself as creative and ways you would like to expand your creativity.
- Creative Thinking and Problem Solving: Learn the steps of the Osborn/Parnes Creative Problem Solving (CPS) model. Deepen understanding of CPS by facilitating others in using the process. (We learn more when we teach something to others.)
- Effective Communication: Learn about how to communicate in a way that facilitates other people’s learning and understanding.
- Leadership Development: Identify and use the skills of facilitation by leading others through the CPS process
- Application of Learning: Participants will use the CPS process in their own lives – in meeting challenges as well as in planning and completing school projects.
