Episode 50 - Kate Robinson - Imagine If - Cultivating an Imagination Revolution

Kate Robinson is a writer, speaker and director of Nevergrey and the daughter of the late Sir Ken Robinson. Her work is dedicated to his legacy and she continues to share his passion of human potential and empowering every person and every organization on the planet to imagine, reimagine, create and recreate via the platform - Imagine If. She was the founding Editor in Chief and Head of Strategic Operations of HundrED, a Finnish-based initiative designed to seek and share the most inspiring innovations in education globally and was awarded a thought leadership award for her Outstanding Contribution to Education Empowerment. Listen to Dan and Kate discuss: - A Year of grief, relocation, marriage, a pandemic, and a new legacy business - Life as the daughter of Sir Ken Robinson - Myths and misunderstandings of creativity - Education stripping us of our human resources, thus stripping the planet of it’s natural resources - Great gardeners don’t grow a plant. They create conditions for plants to flourish - Rock and Roll was not a government led initiative. Real change comes from the ground up - Traditional education is conformity and standardisation. Yet life comes from diversity - Education discourages making mistakes. Yet mistakes makes us both human and creative - Love letter and celebration of human potential - Resistance and mutiny - The more complex the issues of our world become, the more creative our solutions need to be to solve them - We create the worlds in which we live. And there’s always the possibility of recreation - Imagine If. A rallying cry to continue Sir Ken Robinson’s work - Different capacities of imagination. And imagination as a practice - Beneficial environments for learning and creativity - Agency. Taking responsibility for our own lives and our shared planet Community and Links Projects: What If - https://imagine-if.com/schedule Nevergrey - https://www.nevergrey.org The Call to Unite - https://unite.us Mind Up - https://mindup.org/about/ United World Colleges - https://www.uwc.org Hundred - https://hundred.org/en Big Picture Learning - https://www.bigpicture.org Talks: Do Schools Kill Creativity Ted Talk - https://tinyurl.com/a7p7vma Books: Out of Our Minds - https://tinyurl.com/4a55t4h2 Creative Schools - https://tinyurl.com/3425ckaj Be More Pirate - https://tinyurl.com/5f8y5s8w Connect: https://www.instagram.com/itskaterobinson/ https://www.nevergrey.org Email : skr@nevergrey.org http://sirkenrobinson.com ————— Play out track: Life is Beautiful - A Reminiscent Drive A cheeky bootleg by Dan - featuring words from the late Sir Ken Robinson recorded during an interview with Dan in 2016 Host: Dan Burgess @dan__burgess Edit: Charlie Shread Shownotes: Vicki Turner Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson Join us on Instagram: @thespaceship.earth Subscribe to monthly newsletter: https://becomingcrew.substack.com/welcome