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When you think of creativity, you might think of job titles like graphic designer or marketer. Nevertheless, creativity and innovation are crucial in all companies, as organizational challenges demand creative solutions.

Creativity has multiple functions. It not only fights stagnation, but also promotes growth and innovation. While the skills are essential in business, it is an abstract process that works best when combined with a tangible structure. This is where Hienobiz steps in.

We were recently approached looking for ways to encourage communication and collaboration between teams after working from home for the past few years.

Bearing in mind that our creative team has put together a Draw your Colleague with a referenced Creative Training workshop, with an interactive session that enables their team to broaden their horizons, increase their cognitive skills and establish lasting relationships to make a meaningful and productive contribution to their work environment .

What are the benefits of Creative Training for individuals?

Mental well-being It is a well-known fact that the left hemisphere is responsible for motor functions, while the right hemisphere focuses on melody. When the two hemispheres communicate with each other through creative training, your cognitive function improves, which improves the well-being of individuals.

Helps Build Confidence Repetitive creative movements such as drawing or painting are perceived to activate flow and are tasks that create a result. When you succeed in creating a result, your brain is flooded with dopamine, which helps build self-confidence and internal motivation. Whether you are aware of your increased happiness or not, the hit you get after being in flow will energize you and influence you toward similar behaviors personally and professionally.

Self-Expression The workshop we curated provides a safe platform for individuals on a team to express themselves with a free-flowing Creativity tool. With no prior painting experience required, this judgment-free environment coupled with Art of Creative is perceived to challenge conventional thought patterns to encourage a wide range of both personal and social expression.

Ability to explore multiple perspectives While encouraging the team to express themselves, each participant was asked to explore different visual perspectives of their colleague with an open mind. This approach improves nonlinear thinking in individuals in combating workplace uncertainty.

What are the benefits of Creative Training for teams and organizations?

One of the main barriers to a company’s growth is cognitive fixity or the idea that there is only one way to interpret or approach a situation or challenge. Cognitive fixity is an easy trap to fall into because it can be tempting to approach every situation the same way you did in the past. Therefore, our inclusion of the Cubist style in creative training for the team had to let go of their cognitive of the past few years and explore their individual strengths and weaknesses while broadening their horizons to achieve tangible growth.

Increases Productivity The other important factor in nurturing a creative workplace is giving all employees a way to express their ideas. In this timed workshop, the team was divided into groups and given the opportunity to express their true and honest understanding of their peers through art. When these results surfaced after the activity with the whole group, the team felt seen, understood and valued all at the same time, which reportedly spread a new, inhibition-free mindset throughout the company, which also resulted in increased productivity. These art classes are for teams of all shapes and sizes with both in-person and virtual team building workshops.

Promotes Collaboration Pandemic changed the way teams work overnight. The biggest concern was the collaboration between teams after the lockdown. It provides a great environment where individuals can bring forward and challenge established patterns of thinking that will help employees understand fellow teammates and build a sense of belonging, which in turn promotes collaboration.

Time to reconnect and improve your creative ability

Did you know that reading poetry and the classics can be more helpful than a self-help book. And knitting is significantly therapeutic, as is listening to music. If we go to a gallery just to appreciate art, can it dramatically lower our stress and anxiety levels and does it have an effect of helping you feel calm, relaxed and happy?

It has also been found that drawing, reading poetry, crafts and crafts can be very helpful in relaxing your mind and muscles, reducing inflammation and indigestion problems. It also improves positive self-esteem and increases productivity. This is because creative pursuits help us focus our attention, similar to the way meditation does.

Flow is the key ingredient to accessing the many physical, emotional and mental benefits of creativity. Psychologist talks about the state we are in when we are so busy with our creative process that we even seem to lose track of time, temporarily forgetting about ourselves, our problems and internal chaos. When we are in flow, we tend to forget what is happening in our lives right now and even what is happening in our body. We notice that negative thoughts disappear during this time. For some, they reach this state when they exercise, but even tasks that involve repetition, such as knitting, crochet, help to relieve strong emotions and have a calming effect on our nervous system.

If you’re feeling depressed or anxious, recent studies have shown that activities with meaning and purpose, including creative passions, act as your own internal medicine, acting as a natural antidepressant and mood enhancer. Ask yourself, do you need a mental
or physical improvement? And if the answer is yes, it might be time to focus on your creative passions and spend more time on these activities. One way to reconnect with your creativity is to take yourself on a weekly artist date, where you go alone on a date or activity that reconnects you with an activity that you love to do, but you have to do at some point or another. reason no longer does.

Enjoy this video where how taking yourself on an Artist Date brings playful fun back into your life.

Go to an art show

You may have had a mind blowing, tingling experience looking at a painting, sculpture or other work of art, you know what I’m talking about. Maybe you have doubts about art or you feel that art is not for you. Rest assured, you don’t have to be all artsy to enjoy art. You don’t even have to understand it to get anything out of it. Just stay curious and let your body have its natural response to what you are experiencing. If you only have one moment where you can experience wonder, then that is what counts and has a positive benefit for you.

Emotions are processed by a special part of the brain and when our pleasure centers are activated by thinking about a painting or other work of art, even when it is not immediately clear what the work of art is about. Our brains, bodies and emotions are positively rewarded. Signals to the brain are the same as when we daydream or think about the future and further enhance the pleasure and reward mode. There is also an area called ‘the inner insult’ that is associated with the experience of pain being triggered and this may be due to our brains trying the process and finding meaning in the artwork. Taking the time to go to an art show or even taking a painting class can therefore be very rewarding and will often alter your activating and enhancing the reward centers through repeated positive cues.

Why not start writing a daily diary?

Are you stressed? When was the last time you wrote in a journal? Most people are too busy answering a full inbox a day, a huge to-do list to consider the benefits of for themselves each day. But before you ignore it completely, there are many health benefits of writing that are worth considering. Many people walk around with a huge amount of stress that is too much to handle. The cortisol produced by constant activation of stress hormones is very harmful and stressful to our immune system and leads to serious health problems if not stopped in time.