Description

The used method - Training Course based on experiential pedagogy and on the principles of adult learning

This training  targets participants who think abouth themelves they lack creativity and they don’t have the drawing abilities. It also targets participants who want to become more creative, more organized and who want to give an artistic dimension to their live through creativity and drawing. Nowadays, small children do not have any difficulty in expressing themselves through drawing, but, as they grow up, they abandon this type of expressing themselves; researches show that this fact happens around the age of 10-12 due to the fact they can’t realize how to draw a real-like drawing. And, for good reason, it is almost impossible to learn drawing only by yourself. As reading and writing skills, drawing requests instructions, and the instructed persons get very good results.

The left Hemisphere is characterized by the verbal thinking style (which uses numbers, signs, details, symbols, logical thinking). It also deals with speech and language, hence our reading, writing, analyzing and thinking capacities.

The right Hemisphere is the headquarters of non-verbal representations. The person dominated by the right hemisphere take in everything at a glance, has the capacity of synthetizing, is creative and intuitive.

Each person has either a dominant hemisphere, or a balance between the two hemispheres. Generally, in our every day life, people need both hemispheres, but for stimulating our creativity and for drawing as well, we need the right hemisphere. During the training there are activities for stimulating creativity and developing the perceptive capacity that help us discover the potential of our right hemisphere.

Training aim –  The development of creativity and drawing competencies at adults for using them succesfully in their every day life.

Training objectives

1. To present the main fundamental concepts on creativity and drawing techniques
2. To acquire stimulating techniques of the right hemisphere through creativity and drawing
3. To practice relaxation complementary techniques for activating the right hemisphere.

Duration, period and location

The training was held throughout 3 days and it was delivered for two groups af adults (teachers and school counsellours) from two different cities- Timisoara (March 2014) and Drobeta Turnu-Severin(July 2014)  .

Participants’ descriptions

The participants were fellow teachers, counselors working in formal educational system, from low secondary school to high school, as well as other adults. The procedure for selection of the participants was an open call. The two training courses comprised 20 participants who used their new-gained skills with their students.

Results: The development of creativity, raise of self-esteem, decreasing of inhibition, socialization, gaining new drawing skills, improvement of knowledge over the use of non-formal education.