Drawing out team and individual insights through collage.
Memory Consolidation
How does Creative Contemplation enhance memory consolidation?
Creative Contemplation (and specifically collage as an art form) provides a visualisation process for individuals to internalise and recall key learning from a course or programme. In my experience, leadership programmes and other personal effectiveness programmes often lack techniques for effectively closing and integrating learning.
Learning design uses a variety of techniques to mark the end of a learning event or period of learning. These endings have a dual purpose; they should be viewed as symbolic, a ritual marking a successful transition from one phase to the next, and as a strategy to consolidate or integrate learning and ensure long-term memory hooks are put in place (if not already done so).
The image that is made not only is a representation of all that was significant for the learner but stays as a reminder (if you pin it up or frame it) of the essence of the learning long after the memory was initially created.
For further reading on Memory Consolidation, please read this article I wrote on LinkedIn.
If you are responsible for learning design, please reach out for a conversation about using Creative Contemplation as a technique to end your programme with deep reflection and significant integration of key learning.
Here is a list of reasons Creative Contemplation is so effective for memory consolidation.