“Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso

We all know that there reaches a particular age where a child will be constantly inquisitive and wondrous about everything around them. It is not uncommon to be plagued with questions like why? Where? What? Who? When? How? All with an end goal of knowing more. As the children keep growing, this yearning to seek more and know more tends to die down.

Arguably, this could be a function of very many variables that creep up to play a more dominant role in the lives of children. Parents/guardians start being more granular about expectations, there’s an unsaid code from peers about what’s cool and interesting and what’s not. The unwavering pressure to conform and be cool and interesting has led to the stifling of creativity amongst most of our young people. 

On the 12th June 2020, we got together with Shakira (NP Tatu Girls, F4), Ari, (NP Tatu Boys, F4) and Lesley  (NP Ormonde Senior School, Grade 12) for the second series of Nova Pioneer Connect. We talked at length about creativity, it’s genesis and development, and the role it has played in finding that inner balance in their quickly evolving lives.

Click on the link below to catch the insightful conversation.