Creativity & Innovation

Student Facilitator Development Series (SFDS)

The Student Facilitator Development Series (SFDS) program builds upon the Creative Courage Cohort and is designed to help students learn job skills over time. Through regularly scheduled activities, in which students use assessment, application, iteration, and reflection, they deepen their understanding of the creative process and creative problem solving, strengthen critical thinking, and develop career readiness. Program participants can become paid student workers who facilitate creativity exercises on campus. They can also apply for other positions in C&I, including for example: advertising and public relations manager, materials manager, and office assistant. C&I staff provide one-on-one mentoring to SFDS participants for the duration of the program. 

How to become a Student Facilitator

Student Facilitator trainings are offered in block 3 and block 7 each academic year. The next training will take place on the first and second Fridays of block 7: Mar. 28 and Apr. 4, 2025, from 2:00-4:00pm. The training is split into two sessions and students need to attend both sessions to complete the training. 

Prerequisite: Completion of a Creative Courage Cohort.

Learning to Facilitate

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Following the SFDS training, interested students continue meeting to practice and critically analyze the delivery of specific creativity exercises. Students then provide peer feedback utilizing a facilitator’s strategy rubric. Each block, a new exercise will be practiced and analyzed. Students may participate in as many of these block trainings as they want and are able, and then they can facilitate as many exercises as they have learned, whether they decide to become student workers in C&I or not. 

Students who want to become paid facilitators will work in pairs to find a group on campus or in the community for whom they can deliver the exercises. Initially, their facilitation will be observed by a member of the C&I team. C&I staff and the students will determine together the point at which the students are ready to deliver a workshop without being observed. 

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