 I'm excited to announce that Flow In Action is partnering with UNIGE and Genilem to create and deliver training for the Best Ideas Competition - Concours de la Meilleure Idée - the pivotal event during Global Entrepreneurship Week Geneva 2020.
This training is all about engaging and supporting youth with practical skills, as the new generation of activists and innovators, taking them on their start-up entrepreneurship journey from ideas to pitch. Keep checking in at https://liberezvosidees.ch/ for more information.  More than ever, teachers and librarians want to connect children and youth to the resources to enable them to flourish in today’s uncertain world as problem-solvers for the planet.
Wonder is an essential, and frequently under-estimated tool for doing this. Consciously using and inspiring wonder, cultivates creative thinking, increases positive emotions, deepens a mindful connection to Nature and capacity-builds key skills used in innovation and entrepreneurship. This interactive session will give you strategies for using wonder through reading and across academic subject learning, to engage your students of all ages. You will learn: Why wonder works to increase wellbeing; How wonder is used in social innovation to bring new perspectives and fresh ideas to sustainability and sustainable development in communities; What ‘wonder’ activities you can immediately initiate in your libraries and classrooms with your students.
#flowinaction #futuresthinking #wonder #imagination #ideas #creativity #innovation #entrepreneurship #designthinking #systemsthinking #planetcentreddesign  I'm delighted to tell you about the Commonwealth Girls In ICT Creativity & Innovation Challenge, exploring ideas to make education and learning more inclusive for all children; and to ask you to invite young people to join in.
Designed and run by the Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network (CBWN), Flow In Action and GSMA, this is an international inclusive event for girls and boys, inviting them to engage, explore and experience UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Quality Education and Goal 5 on Gender Equality. What had originally been planned as a face-to-face workshop for 30 girls in London, was turned upside down by COVID-19. With more than 1.5 billion students now out of school during the COVID-19 pandemic, we got together to see how we could help. From a brief conversation two weeks ago, the challenge has emerged and we are excited to share this as a free interactive online event for girls and boys ages 8-16 years old in Commonwealth countries and beyond. This is an opportunity for your young people to: · Learn digital skills · Create incredible innovative ideas for inclusive education for all children · Connect across the globe as problem-solvers Powered by our tech platforms of Hazu and World Labs, you can get involved in the challenge with your children and youth from 23 April 2020 until 23 June 2020. Take part on the day and then as an ongoing project. Educators, librarians, youth workers: get your students involved to connect across the globe, learning digital skills as they use their creativity and generate incredible ideas to solve the innovation challenge. Parents: get your kids involved in the challenge as a home-schooling creativity activity as they learn digital skills and share their incredible ideas for creating inclusive education. Students: Your creativity counts! Take part in the challenge with children across the world, learn digital skills and share your incredible ideas for creating inclusive education for all children. Discover more about the challenge at www.cbwn.org and be ready to register and enter the interactive classroom on the 23rd April 2020. We are so excited to see the incredible ideas of young people emerging over the course of the challenge, and we will be sharing their voices with you, as a community taking action for the planet. #girlsinict #flowinaction #imagination #ideas #creativity #innovation #entrepreneurship #commonwealth #youthvoices  I wonder what you wonder...about a drop of water?
A question for kids of all ages...so feel free to have a go too. Share this with your kids and get them wondering...as a homeschooling activity. When we wonder, we connect to our imagination and creativity. We see things from new perspectives. We problem solve in different ways. Wondering keeps us well and hopeful. Your kids can share their ideas on the platform at this link. https://hazu.io/flowinaction.org/wonderlab Also...if you're an educator, librarian, youth worker ...then sign up for the online training with me for creating your own Kids Wonder Lab for your organisation at www.flowinaction.org/wonder #flowinaction #purejoyofcreating #imagination #ideas #creativity #innovation #entrepreneurship #wellbeing #sustainability #sdgs #love #wonder #awe #lovetheplanet #designforflourishing #peopleandplanetcentreddesignthinking #flourishing #purposedriven #teacher #librarian #youthvoices  TAKE THE TRAINING
Learn how to set up your Fill Your Kids With Wonder Lab! Join this group coaching workshop and get the one-stop solution you need to run ongoing, fun, easy, inclusive creativity activities for kids – use wonder to build wellbeing, banish boredom and inspire kids’ imagination, ideas and learning. Find out more and sign up TODAY  In December 2019, I was invited to become an Associate Board Member of the Webster Center for Creativity & Innovation in Geneva.
 Another proven wellbeing practice is to do the 3 Good Things & Why exercise.
You can do it as a journalling exercise before going to sleep, as well as a regular rapid exercise through the day. You can do it by yourself, or with friends and it's a lovely thing to do as a family. It actively changes your focus, celebrating the smallest of good things and why they are meaningful to you.   I was delighted to be featured in the World Leading Schools Association inaugural newsletter REACH with an article about Unconscious Bias in Education Settings, as part of tackling SDG 5 - Gender Equality. I spoke at the WLSA Conference in Prague in July 2019 on creating healthy campus's using creativity and problem-solving around the UN SDGs. My article is on page 20. Click on the PDF Link below. 
In the UK, the Durham Commission on Creativity & Education was published in mid-October, citing:
"The increasing recognition of the economic and social value of creativity and creative thinking has brought a fresh urgency to the development of entrepreneurship and the skills of the future workforce." This is extraordinarily well-timed as Global Entrepreneurship Week 2019 takes place 18th – 24th November. Why celebrate GEW in your school? Because it is a fantastic way to build youth wellbeing, complex problem-solving skills and solutions to challenges in your community.  When was the last time you remember feeling wonder?
Can you remember? Can you picture what you were looking at or thinking about? I’m asking, because wonder is a powerhouse, creating a chain reaction to real and radical impact in what you do. |
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