Achieving flow in the classroom to stimulate creativity and connection

Abstract

The best dual outcome for any class is that 1. students enter into flow, experiencing peak performance and stimulating individual creativity, and 2. are able to build deep connections with other students, learning how to dialogue and collaborate across difference in order to achieve dynamic creativity together with others. The following chapter introduces a flow structured tertiary class with transferable activities that stimulate peak performance and creativity. At the same time, the activities will provide opportunity to build deep connections among participants, giving them new skills to collaborate across difference and generate more creative outcomes. Based on the neuroscience of flow and the latest diversity and inclusion research, both are here brought together in a transformative, transferable classroom experience. It may be adapted for an in-person, an online and a hybrid audience so that the technology becomes invisible and the experience barely distinguishable.