Creativity Coaching: An Experiment with Adolescent Girls in Kerala

Abstract

If tomorrow is to be an enhanced and brighter one, today's children and adolescents are to be focused, because they are the adults of tomorrow; the inheritors of the present civilization in the millenniums to come. For this, the urgent attention of both theoretical and practical attention of life skills development efforts in the country is mandatory with the 'Development of Creativity of Adolescents', because it is their creativity, which is going to design and determine the future. The process of empowering the women folk in our rural villages make this need much more augmented and brings the adolescent girls in the centre stage. Further the progressive changes among the Dimensions of the creativity of adolescent girls will make them competent and successful in their current as well as future life tasks. This is possible through the 'Creativity coaching' is a subset of life skill coaching and development where the creativity potential of the adolescents is coached for the functionalisation to effective growth and natural development. The author of this paper has developed and implemented the 'creativity coaching module' to functionalize the creativity thinking skills of adolescent girls through working on the specific dimensions of their Divergent Thinking, Original Thinking, Imaginative Thinking, Thinking for Discovering Alternatives, Flexibility in Thinking, Thinking for Barrier Removal, and Problem Solving Thinking. This paper is an attempt to bring out the result and associated implications from the experiment of creativity coaching. The intervention was carried out as a specific activity of the Mathruka Anganwadi Project designed and implemented in the Parakkadavu Block Panchayath of Ernakulam District, Kerala, India. Keywords: Coaching Adolescents' Creativity Skills; Divergent, Original, Imaginative Thinking, discovering alternatives, Flexibility, Barrier Removal, and Problem Solving, Adolescent Girls Clubs.