Understanding the four levels of creativity can help you assess yourself and your colleagues. In this episode, Daniel Cape explains the four levels and talks about experiential education and creativity.
What You’ll Learn


* The four levels of creativity and examples of each
* The level we judge ourselves on and how that can inhibit our creativity

About Daniel Cape
Daniel Cape is a doctoral student at Saybrook University earning his degree in psychology with a focus on creativity studies. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of experiential education. Daniel’s previous work included U.S. and international camp experiences, a project-based learning school, young-adult transition programs, and serving in the Army National Guard as a combat engineer officer. He started the non-profit EPIC Smiles where he teaches caricatures to children around the world.  He is author of the book From Experience to Creativity: The experiential educator’s incomplete guide to creativity and created EPIC Cards which teach and promote creativity.
Resources

* Daniel Cape’s website
* Daniel’s book: From Experience to Creativity
* Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
* Leave a review on iTunes

Weekly Challenge
See if you can identify everyday creativity within yourself and others. Acknowledge the creativity and focus on giving creative feedback.
Transcript
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Transcript for Episode #094: Four Levels of Creativity with Daniel Cape
Amy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 94. Today, I am talking with Daniel Cape about the four levels of creativity. Daniel and I met a few years ago at a conference for the Association for Experiential Education. I was presenting a workshop on creativity and he attended my workshop and we got to know each other after that. A couple of years later, he was in the process of writing a book about experiential education in creativity and he asked me to write a chapter about Creative Problem Solving. The book is called From Experience to Creativity: The Experiential Educator’s Incomplete Guide to Creativity. If you are an experiential educator and you are interested in being more creative or more deliberate about fostering creativity in your students, then I highly recommend the book. It has some valuable information and great ideas in it.
When I say experiential educator, what I am talking about is someone who is teaching others through experience by developing experiential activities or an experience in itself to help teach other people something, whether that is anything from an academic topic or more life skills like team building, leadership, conflict resolution. It does not matter the topic, but if you are interested in the methodology of teaching through experience, then you are an experiential educator.
If that is your jam, if that is what you usually get excited about, then I highly recommend the book. The chapter that I wrote comes with a free workbook of resour...