IN PERSON: This course explores how creativity can help us navigate an unknowable future while fostering connection in a divided society. Participants will develop practical, enjoyable ways to expand their creative thinking and everyday creative habits. We will also examine creative approaches to finding common ground, including ideas and strategies that can resonate across perspectives and support a more inclusive and sustainable vision of the future. Special attention will be given to the unique advantages of the 55-plus-year-old brain, including the biological changes that can support renewed creativity and insight. The course is discussion-based, fast-paced, and highly interactive, encouraging active participation and the exchange of ideas. | Facilitated discussion.
Max enrollment: 24.
Location: Erwin Mill, 2024 W. Main St, Durham NC 27705
For 25 years, after 20 years as an entrepreneur, Carl Nordgren's calling has been helping folks grow their creative capacities and develop their entrepreneurial instincts and behaviors. He taught courses in creativity at Duke for 14 years, is an award-winning novelist, and hosts a radio show on creativity. Once a teenage fishing guide in the wilderness of Ontario and the Arkansas Ozarks, he recently realized he had found the common ground our nation needs and hopes to share that far and wide.