Give Me Back My MoJo and the Medici effect

The Medici effect refers to a phenomenon that occurs when creative, talented, and productive people from different fields come together and are able to collaborate to create something innovative and new. Frans Johansson coined the phrase in a book by the same name. During this course, we move from a discussion of a simple diagram to layer the art work done during the previous class.

I use this idea for course participants to use their own strengths and abilities from different areas/disciplines in their lives to form innovative intersections which will help them achieve their goals. The diagrammatic artwork obviously becomes more complex, the more the ideas are unpacked. Risk areas are discussed, as is overstepping in certain strengths. Such 'overstepping' means the intersection is passed and the innovation is lost as the strength is not reigned in. 

It’s a methodology which can work when tackling ANY goal, no matter how small or great it is. To analyse, quantify and access our own strengths sets us at the pivot point of our own abilities. Using a Narrative Therapy approach assumes we all have strengths in certain areas, and also that we have knowledge which perhaps we just have not applied to particular areas which increase our creative thinking abilities. 

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