Creative Minds; Shaping the Future

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Gloria Garbujo is a Creative Arts Therapist, Coach, Supervisor, and Consultant. She helps individuals and organisations cultivate resilience and embrace change through creative methods. She has over a decade of professional experience working with clients across Europe and internationally as a registered Arts Therapist (Dramatherapist) with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and a member of the British Association of Dramatherapists. Her Mindful Arts Workshops incorporate story telling, creative writing, ink painting, mindful movement and breathing techniques to promote awareness, self-expression...

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Jo runs a social enterprise 'Progressive Education' which is raising awareness of alternatives to conventional schooling. She is passionate about education which gives young people appropriate skills for the 21st Century and puts children’s rights, social justice and wellbeing at the core. 

The ProgressiveEducation.org website includes initiatives to improve the learner experience at school, changemaker campaigns, articles and research. In collaboration with Limitless, she also runs a membership for people wanting to set up their own schools and lea...

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Shonette Bason is a primary school teacher and Early Years specialist with over 30 years of classroom experience. She is also an author and motivational speaker, passionate about exciting children’s and practitioner’s learning. Her boundless energy, happiness and love for play are just some of the reasons she is a sought after speaker. 

You may be familiar with her innovative approaches to early writing such as 'Dough Disco' now delivered in over 50 countries worldwide or 'Squiggle Whilst you Wiggle' or 'S...

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Hywel Roberts has taught in secondary, primary and special settings for almost 30 years. He shows others how to bring learning to life for all children and young people. In particular, he has drawn on and adapted the work of Dorothy Heathcote, with whom he studied, and her powerful Mantle of the Expert approach to learner engagement.

He contributes to university education programmes and writes regularly for TES as the 'travelling teacher'. Hywel deals in botheredness, creative practice, curriculum development and...

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Winsy is the Global Director of Education & Innovation at Rocket Productions.

With over 16 years in the British independent education sector, she has held leadership roles, developed pedagogical frameworks, designed learning environments, delivered teacher training, and led action research.
For more than a decade, she has been developing innovative educational projects that go beyond traditional schooling, rooted in the belief that education should evolve with the world, and be meaningful, adaptable, and human. She is clear that modern education should...

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Dr Mark Williams is an internationally recognised professor of cognitive neuroscience, (cognitive neuroscience is focused on studying the brain and learning, how it uses thought, senses and experiences to inform understanding and gain new knowledge) with over 25 years experience conducting behavioural and brain imaging research focusing on our social skills. He has taught neuroscience to a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as publishing more than 70 scientific articles which have featured in outlets globally including The New York Times...

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Dr Lewis Fogarty is a director of a small group of nurseries in Berkshire and director of Teaching and Learning for the Department of Education at Brunel University. 

Lewis explains that creativity is both for ourselves and for others, he notes that it requires a certain level of confidence to stand out from the crowd and we discuss together the importance of a psychologically safe environment to innovate, both for students and teachers. 

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With a strong commitment to driving a positive impact in underprivileged communities in Uganda, Timothy Wambi was recently nominated for the Top 40 Under 40 Ugandans by the national News Paper Newvision. 

He is the founder of Ajibu Community- a community-based organization dedicated to championing quality education for children by developing engaging and hands-on play and learning resources as well as teachers’ competencies in ensuring better learning outcomes for children. 

Ajibu Community provides educational opportunities to children who wouldn't have rece...

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Kavita is a classroom educator and co-founder of Catalyst learning labs, which guides school leaders and teachers through a cultural transformation that reconnects them to their original passion for learning, leading to increased student engagement and academic achievement.

With Kavita’s guidance, educators around the world and the young people they learn with come alive with curiosity, confidence and creativity; preparing students to be the empowered creative problem solvers that the world needs.

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Dr Poppy Gibbson, an Education researcher, author and lecturer joins us for this episode.

Poppy shares her understanding of creativity creating new neural pathways, she agrees that creativity provides the opportunity for risk taking in safe environments and the opportunity to have fun. She highlights that collaborative creativity opens our minds to new ideas and it is from these new ideas we grow and make connections. 

Poppy shares an interesting exercise she carried out over 7 years with trainee t...

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Gavin McCormack, recognised as one of the top ten most influential global educators joins us for this episode.

Gavin dispels the misconception that creativity is just art on a Friday afternoon and defines is at being able to look at a problem from multiple perspectives, critical thinking and data analysis playing a large part. 

He shares examples of his own creative approaches and explains why creative thinking is crucial in todays information rich climate. 

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Pie Corbett is an English educational trainer, author and poet who has written more than 200 books. He is best known for 'Jumpstart Grammar' and 'Talk for Writing'. 

In today's episode we discuss the importance of igniting the spark in our children and that curiosity should be nurtured.

He argues that knowledge without values can be a dangerous thing and that creativity is an antidote. Pie understands we need the creative arts but we can also be creative thinkers a...

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In this episode we meet the inspirational leadership team at St Ebbe's primary school in Oxford; Headteacher Tina Farr and her Deputy Clare Whyles.

We discuss a 'living curriculum' philosophical questions and igniting fire in the bellies of children and adults alike. We highlight the importance of curiosity, context and connection and hear stories of happy learners and attendance above the national average!

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This episode is a brief introduction to me, your host and this new podcast. I am a passionate educator keen to discuss creativity with others.

I have some fantastic guests lined up, some you will already know and some you will want to know more about.  

Other episodes will be longer than episode 0; see this episode as a 'snack' whereas the others will be a 'feast' for your ears! 

I look forward to Episode 1 at the st...