Reframing the Role of the Personal Trainer.

Imagination.

’Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.’

Mary Lou Cook.

Duncan Wardle https://youtu.be/_8MwiGYzlyg?si=93doHmwEI3fiy-1bhttps://youtu.be/_8MwiGYzlyg?si=93doHmwEI3fiy-1b Once upon a time a boy received a bicycle packed in a cardboard box for Christmas. He opened the box, put the bicycle to one side and started playing with the box. Using his imagination, it could be anything he wanted it to be. The bicycle could wait. It was not going anywhere.

The Crisis.

As adults, we have become more fixated on routinized ways of doing things. It’s easier. We no longer have to work hard at it. It becomes habitual. We always look for the given answer to any problem, rather than look for alternatives, even if the answer is incorrect.

Problem.

We have lost our imagination. This lack of imagination hampers resources to affect solution finding.

What did the students learn from the Superpower?

Using their imagination, they could:

• shape it, mould it, interpret it as they wanted to.
• it could mean anything to them.
• It reasserted control back into their own hands.