Chapter 4

Creativity Focused

These activities will be the hardest for your trainees to embrace, but they will have the most powerful impact. Most people believe they are terrible artists—and we usually don’t like to do things we are not already good at—so when they are asked to draw things they grumble. Unfortunately this reluctance to participate prevents them from tapping into their creative side.

Creating art, however, is an amazing experience that provides a visual representation of the subject matter, which helps tremendously with retention. The goal for these activities is not to create mesmerizing art, but to create something visual that ...

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