Connected Creativity

Connected
Creativity*

A handbook for teaching creative capacities — eleven lesson-based chapters across three domains, grounded in neuroscience and psychology, with ready-to-use scripts in ARTFUL phase format.

Dedication

"For those who build tomorrow through art."

Eleven chapters.Three domains.

Each chapter is a complete lesson: facilitator script, exercise, supporting theory. The domains move from inner attention outward — from the self, to the encounter, to action in the wider world.

 
  • 1

    Self

    Inner awareness · Embodied attention · Resilience

Practices that locate creativity inside the person before it goes anywhere else — inner attention, body awareness, the capacity to stay with uncertainty.

Includes: Sonic Sculpture · Vision Collage · Resilience Building Blocks

  • 2

    Other

    Listening · Improvisation · Ensemble

Creativity that lives between people. Listening, improvisation, ensemble — the conditions that make collaboration possible before the work itself begins.

Includes: Gesture Sculpture · Let the Cards Tell the Story · Interrupted Still Life

  • 3

    World

    Agency · Framing · Action

The leap outward. Practices that move creative attention from the room into the wider context — agency, lateral framing, and creative response.

Includes: Philomena Cunk Absurd Associations · [ further exercises ]

Written by a composer
and a psychologist.

Kasia Głowicka Vega

Composer · researcher · educator

Lecturer at the Creative Business department of Inholland in The Hague, and a Comenius Senior Fellow. Previously a lecturer at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. Co-founder of The Airport Society collective and creator of the Connected Creativity programme, developed over six years of teaching at Inholland.

Maritha van Amerom

Psychologist · art educator

A practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of psychology and arts education. Long-time collaborator on the ARTFUL framework, bringing the empirical care that underpins every exercise in the book.

What others are saying.

— Name, affiliation

[ Endorsement quote — one or two sentences from a respected practitioner in arts education or neuroaesthetics. ]

— Name, affiliation

[ Endorsement quote — one or two sentences from an educator who has used the framework. ]