Skip to main content
Close icon Menu icon
Cart
Your cart
Your cart is empty

Browse courses to find something that interests you.

Search
Enter to search / ESC to close


Browse Study Areas >

MICROCREDENTIAL

Creative Intelligence Catalyser

Enrol now
$2,397.00

START DATE

 Enquire now

MODE

DURATION

 6 wks

COMMITMENT

 6 wks avg 10 hrs/wk

Join Waitlist








Have a question?
Make an enquiry

How can embracing creative intelligence help you forge new, creative solutions to complex challenges? Expand your approach to problem solving and be inspired with a suite of game-changing creative methods and practices to help you generate new ideas, insights and solutions.

About this microcredential

Designed by UTS’s award-winning, global leaders in creative intelligence, this 6-week Creative Intelligence Catalyser course will propel your innovative practice to new heights, taking you through 24 creative tools and practices to add to your innovation toolkit.

With content drawn from the UTS TD School’s ground-breaking Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation program, this microcredential will introduce you to new and novel approaches that will reinvigorate and reenergise the way you generate, discover and explore new ideas, insights and solutions (as well as uncover blind spots).

Over six weeks, you will examine cutting-edge insights drawn from a diverse range of professional domains, including fields such as creative arts and neuroscience, to inform and fortify the creative capability of both individuals and collectives. Using this unique transdisciplinary approach, you are encouraged to cultivate a culture of curiosity, experimentation, playfulness and inventiveness while developing analytical, sensemaking and creative practices.

You will also develop skills for communication and advocacy of new approaches, concepts and ideas to stakeholders; a critical step in innovation adoption.

Delivered in a series of weekly, highly interactive, online workshops (meet virtually face-to-face in real time) by leading practitioner Dr Barbara Doran, Creative Intelligence Catalyser will unleash your creative capability to forge new, inventive solutions to the most complex challenges.

Key benefits of this microcredential

Mastering structured approaches to develop innovative, creative solutions to complex challenges is an increasingly valuable skill in any professional context or industry.

This course will provide you with invaluable tools to catalyse personal and collective creative capacities, augmented by a suite of sought-after tools and resources that can be adapted and expanded into future professional contexts. Supportive collegial networks (creative kin) will be nourished along with new ways of being a changemaker.

This microcredential aligns with the 3 credit point subject, Creative Practices and Methods (94710) in the Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation. This microcredential may qualify for recognition of prior learning at this and other institutions.

Who should do this microcredential?

Whatever field you are in – whether you’re working in a professional role in a corporation or in the public sector, are experienced in accelerators and start-ups, or are working in the creative industries – using creative approaches to drive innovation is a highly valued skillset that crosses all industries.

This course is suitable for all people, even those who don’t identify as ‘creative’. The methods and practices covered in the content will help you find and develop your creative muscle and thereby transform your innovation practice.

Price

Full price: $2,397 (GST-free)*

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase. 

Discounts are available for this course. For further details and to verify if you qualify, please check the Discounts section under Additional course information. 

Enrolment conditions

COVID-19 response 

Additional course information

Course outline

Creative Intelligence Catalyser consists of six, weekly, two-hour interactive online-facilitator-led sessions, with UTS TD School’s, Barbara Doran.

The microcredential will cover:

How to engage divergent thinking and ground new ideas in practical action by taking a journey that explores:

  • The value of play and how it fosters creativity
  • The art of thinking fast and questioning
  • Mobilising the power of visualisation
  • Harnessing communication as a research lens
  • Engaging with scale to find new perspectives.
  • Grounding insights through stories, metaphor and collective meaning.

Participants will also work collaboratively in teams to apply practices and skills to real-world problems, as well as engage with readings and reflections throughout the course.

Course delivery

This course will blend online workshops, ethnographic and ‘life as a lab’ experiments, interactive tools, discussion boards and a suite of curated resources.

Over the six weeks of the course, participants can expect a time commitment of approximately 10 hours per week, consisting of:

  • 2 hours of an online face-to-face workshop
  • 2-3 hours case study exploration and group work
  • 2-3 hours per week reading and reflection
  • 2-3 hours per week assessments.

Course learning objectives

Participants will:

  • Trial creative practices and methods from different disciplines, fields of practice and cultures to reveal new avenues for action
  • Propose an experiment that integrates creative approaches from a range of disciplines, and gauge its potential to generate new possibilities.

Assessment

Participants will be assessed across the following two tasks during the course:

  • Task 1: Experiments & discoveries exercises - group work, individually assessed (30%)
  • Task 2: Design experiment with proposed methods and learnings, individually assessed (70%)

To complete this course a pass is required in both assessments.

Requirements

Mandatory

  • To complete this online course, participants will need access to a computer or device with a reliable internet connection and Zoom for online classes.

Other

  • There are no required texts or pre-readings for this course, but participants may benefit from the following: Pink, D.  2005 ‘A Whole New Mind. Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age’. Riverhead Books, New York.

Discounts

Discounts are available for this course as follows: 

  • UTS alumni/students 10% discount with voucher code: TDIalumni 
  • UTS staff 10% discount 

Discounts cannot be combined and only one discount can be applied per person per course session. Discounts can only be applied to the full price. Discounts cannot be applied to any offered special price. 

How to enrol and obtain your UTS staff discount (UTS staff)

How to apply your discount voucher 

  • If you are eligible for a UTS alumni or student discount, please ensure you have provided your UTS student number in your UTS Open Profile (under “A bit about you”). If you are an alumni and have forgotten your UTS student number, email support@utsopen.uts.edu.au with your full name, UTS degree and year of commencement.  
  • Add this course to your cart 
  • Click on "View Cart" (blue shopping trolley at top right of screen). You will need to sign in or sign up to UTS Open 
  • Enter your eligible code beneath the “Have a code?” prompt and click on the blue "Apply" button 
  • Verify your voucher code has been successfully applied before clicking on the blue "Checkout" button. 

In-house training or group enrolments 

  • If you are interested in in-house training opportunities or enrolling five or more people within your organisation, please contact us at td.learning@uts.edu.au.

 

Related Courses

Dynamic Managerial Capability Dynamic Managerial Capability
Microcredential

Dynamic Managerial Capability

Develop dynamic management techniques that will transform the way you do business. [7 wks, avg 10 hrs/wk]

  • Enquire now
  • 7 wks
  • 7 wks avg 10 hrs/wk
  • 3,001
  • On Campus (Sydney)
  • Scheduled sessions
Structured Thinking and Planning Structured Thinking and Planning
Microcredential

Structured Thinking and Planning

Learn the complex problem-solving approaches used by the world’s top management consultancies [7wks, avg 10 hrs/wk]

  • Enquire now
  • 7 wks
  • Avg 10 hrs p/w
  • 2,988
  • Online
  • Scheduled sessions
Practising Inclusion: Working and Teaching for Social Justice Practising Inclusion: Working and Teaching for Social Justice
Microcredential

Practising Inclusion: Working and Teaching for Social Justice

Learn to build inclusive practices in higher education environments by deepening your understanding of diversity, equity, social justice and inclusion. [6 wks Avg, 12hrs/wk]

  • Enquire now
  • 6 wks
  • 6 wks avg 12 hrs/wk
  • 1,286
Infrastructure Law: Delivering projects and managing risks Infrastructure Law: Delivering projects and managing risks
Microcredential

Infrastructure Law: Delivering projects and managing risks

Explore the legal and commercial elements of major infrastructure projects and learn to allocate risk effectively. [6 wks, avg 10 hrs/wk]

  • Enquire now
  • 6 wks
  • Avg 10 hrs/wk
  • 2,500
  • Online
  • Scheduled sessions
Ethical AI for Good Business Ethical AI for Good Business
Microcredential

Ethical AI for Good Business

Set the ethical technology agenda for your organisation grounded in AI literacy, knowledge and agency. [6 wks, avg 11 hrs/wk]

  • Enquire now
  • 6 wks
  • 6 wks avg 11 hrs/wk
  • 2,397
Expert Design Secrets To Radically Up Your DataVis Game Expert Design Secrets To Radically Up Your DataVis Game
Microcredential

Expert Design Secrets To Radically Up Your DataVis Game

Learn powerful design principles for making better, more persuasive charts and infographics. [6 wks, avg 10 hrs/wk]

  • Enquire now
  • 6 wks
  • 6 wks avg 10 hrs/wk
  • 2,195
We use cookies

We use cookies to help personalise content, tailor and measure ads, plus provide a safer experience. By navigating the site, you agree to the use of cookies to collect information. Read our Cookie Policy to learn more.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.

loading