This group presentation by Stuart Morse, Jasmine Raskas, and C Paul Diem will explain why creativity matters to the coaching process. Participants will have a chance to reflect on how they’re already using creative thinking within a coaching session and gain experience with new ways to bring creativity into a coaching session. This presentation includes active learning, participation, and the opportunity for brainstorming and discussion among coaches.

• Learn how creative thinking relates to the goals and values of the coaching process
• Understand how coaching is inherently a creative act
• Gain knowledge and experience with creative tools that can be used with clients in a coaching session.

This session will reinforce how coaching is naturally a creative process. Participants will learn how the process of being creative relates to being coached. Clients face the same type of limiting beliefs in being creative as they do in meeting any kind of goal. Learn about the scope of thinking creatively as it relates to the anatomy of the brain and aspects of the human mind. This understanding can help coaches better communicate, brainstorm and vision with their clients. 

Coaches will be guided in breakout sessions to brainstorm how both their clients and themselves are already tapping into creativity during the coaching process. This presentation includes several examples of creative strategies that can be used with clients such as drawing, storytelling, visualization, brainstorming, pictures, symbols, humor, and improvisation. A culminating creative challenge will give participants the chance to test out what they learned during the presentation. 

Approved for 1.5 Core Competencies

About the presenters

STUART MORSE
For nearly 30 years, Stuart has been working as an innovative resource to leaders and teams who are looking to achieve better results and go beyond what is the accepted standard. Clients have engaged Stuart to work across their businesses from Strategy to Culture. Through this broad scope of work, Stuart has been continually advancing a wholistic methodology and set of tools that bring clarity to the often-complex worlds in which leaders and teams operate.

The source and inspiration for providing successful solutions has come from a unique career path that includes engineering and the fine arts and has resulted in a balanced approach that leverages Analytic and Creative Thinking. This wholistic style of thinking has provided a foundation to design and deliver logical and practical solutions for leaders and teams to accelerate and gain more momentum.

Through his company, The Morse Group, Stuart has had the opportunity to work with, and learn from, extraordinary leaders to deliver adaptive results-based solutions. This has built a trusted network of aligned resources that provides expertise and scale to address the range of challenges that leaders encounter. A fulfilling aspect of Stuart’s professional work with leaders and teams is that it aligns with his passion to create positive change.

JASMINE RASKAS
Jasmine is a self taught professional artist with a background in science. Her art explores the intersection of the micro and the macro emergent patterns that arise out of collective systems, including those that are biological, information based and archetypal in nature (Unus Mundus Art).

As a teaching artist, facilitator, and coach she helps people at all levels confidently embrace creativity to create life-long transformation and desired change. She works in the arts as a facilitator and teaching artist at Artists First, a nonprofit inclusive art studio empowering artists of all abilities and bringing art to the community as a means of integration, healing, and support. In her own coaching practice, Chaos2order Coaching, she works with groups and individuals to use the power of art and imagination for personal growth. Jasmine is a certified coach by The International Coaching Foundation (ACC) and Coach Training EDU. She serves on the ICF St. Louis leadership team as Co-Program Director and on the Artists First Young Professionals Board.

C PAUL DIEM
Paul is a designer, educator and entrepreneur with decades of work designing museums and museum exhibitions. With his vast knowledge of designing interactive educational experiences Paul has turned his focus toward sustainability coaching. By combining his passion to create a more sustainable planet and his background using interactive tools for personal growth he coaches both individuals and groups. Paul’s businesses include MMGstartup™ mastermind groups and dTh.ink™ - Design Lab Thinking workshops. The mastermind groups include work-related and personal growth with a focus on creative development and accountability. His highly interactive dTh.ink workshops include: Design Thinking 101, Circular Design, Innovation Coaching, Thought Leadership Development, Designing Life Experiences and others. Paul is helping to create more sustainable relationships through sustainability coaching.