Did you see the article about creativity in the July 19 edition of Newsweek?
It laments the state of creativity in American schools but also gives suggestions about how to fix the creativity crisis and upgrade that creativity to a new level for the 21st century.
The late E. Paul Torrance – the innovative professor who is mentioned prominently in the article – had met and had been influenced by psychodrama’s developer J.L. Moreno. Torrance wrote about sociodrama and its techniques and was a recognized pioneer in the field of creativity studies.
Later in the article in Newsweek, the author reports that studies show that role playing promotes creativity with children.
Adam Blatner, one of the foremost writers about psychodrama, points out that the “this frontier of our work, cultivating spontaneity and imaginativeness, continues to accrue more of a scientific foundation."
Read the full Newsweek article here, plus take an online creativity test.
