KANEKO, an Omaha non-profit dedicated to exploring creativity, will feature a lecture by Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson on Thursday to kick off its new series, Understanding Creativity.
Carson, author of “Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life,” will discuss how to expand and discover paths to greater creative capacity. More than a talk, the event will also get the audience involved in a series of exercises led by Carson and her team.
“My goal in conducting research on creativity and brain functions is to discover ways that everyone – even those who do not consider themselves to be creative – can access the creative abilities that are their birthright,” Carson says on the KANEKO website, “and use them to enrich both their own lives and to benefit society.”
Carson’s talk is the first event of KANEKO’s Understanding Creativity Project, one that will have the organization bringing researchers and authors to Omaha for public programing and workshops.
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“KANEKO is about influencing how we see our options,” Hal France, executive director of KANEKO, said. “This project seeks to learn from the scientific community what happens in us when we are most inventive and most inspired. The programs won’t be clinical, but designed to make us think and consider ourselves.”
Though not part of the series, in May the team at Silicon Prairie News will hold Big Omaha at KANEKO for the fourth straight year. KANEKO is committed to both the inspection and proliferation of creativity in and outside of Omaha.
Find more details and purchase tickets ($15) for Thursday’s event featuring Carson at thekaneko.org.
Here’s a video from Harvard featuring an interview with Carson: “The Psychology of Creativity: Faculty Insight with Shelley Carson“.
Image and video credit: Photo of Shelley Carson from amazon.com. Video from Harvard Extension on YouTube.
SPN Media Sponsor Disclosure: Silicon Prairie News is a media sponsor of KANEKO’s regular lectures and activities on the subject of creativity.