Perspectives are often shaped by individual’s unique experiences, leading to variations and limitations in their interpretation of the world and their responses to problems, issues, and challenges. By recognising and acknowledging these limitations, the strategic thinking FOCUSED framework aids us to envision alternatives possibilities beyond our limited viewpoints in a complex and volatile world.
The Graduate School Transferable Skills Workshop on 10 Apr, facilitated by Dr Robert Wright from the Department of Management and Marketing (MM), introduced the FOCUSED framework as a problem-setting and solving tool for research students to embrace otherness and structure their thinking, emotions and actions.
During the workshop, participants engaged in activities within the framework, which, according to previous experiments, have shown to stimulate key brain regions and connectivity associated with higher-order thinking, creativity, complex problem solving, novelty, and more. This stimulation not only enhances learning but also promotes neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to form and reorganise neural pathways. The workshop also featured online sessions led by a lineup of international renowned scholars from academic institutions such as the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford, where participants “unlearnt” and challenged their existing knowledge and perspectives.
In challenging moments in the learning process, let us drop our tools, unlearn and re-construe!
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