019: Can you draw a giraffe? Let the kids show you how - a podcast by Joan M Gregerson

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Most every five-year-old kid will jump at the chance to dance, sing or draw. Why can’t most adults? When trying to create a better world, acknowledge that the creativity and spontaneity of youth might be just what we need.

 

Green Team Academy Podcast with Joan Gregerson

Episode 19

 

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] If you ask a five-year-old to draw a giraffe, they will do it. What if you ask an adult?

[1:30] Every five-year-old knows how to draw, dance and sing, but somehow adults don’t. What happened?

[1:40] Education has some negative side-effects. Dampens spontaneity. Dampens creativity.

[2:10] Toddler will dance, sing, draw.

[2:20] Adults suffer from a lack of spontaneity, from thinking that things are easy or doable.

[2:30] Include people as young as possible.

[3:00] Example: Four-year-old had a booth to teach about sea animals.

[4:10] The key to creating the new world that we need is all about imagination. That’s what kids are so good at.

[4:45] It might be that the experts that you need are the kids in your community.

 

Resources:

• Alan Watts
• Youth of the Earth Festival Photos

 

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