SOC is an online, co-creative community

of Creatives aged 18+ who

intentionally learn about Creativity and explore what we are learning through our projects

so we can enhance our:

• knowledge about creativity’s power and nature
• understanding of our own creative natures and power
• creative capabilitie
• creative practices
• creative processes
• intended results of our creative projects, creative coommunities, and our creative lifestyles, and our
• sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.

We do this by:

• learning “Creatology, the Subject of the power and nature of Creativity”
• by being indivudually and collectively creative
• in a safe, co-creative culture.

Creative, our social and environmental wellbeing

needs your Creativity, desperately!

We need your:

• passions, gifts, and talents
• visions and missions
• imaginations and ideas
• artistry
• problem-solving skills and solutions
• collaboration and co-creativity
• innovative, value-adding, healing, and beauty-making projects
  and your
• manifestation, and
• change-making and transformative power!

Something needs to give!

It’s up to our Creatives to CREATE personal and social and ecological CHANGE… it’s YOUR CREATIVITY that can achieve it!

Creatology is the Subject of Creativity.

We study creativity’s power and nature.

It is designed and developed by Jane Macdonald, a Creatologist and founder of the School of Creatology, and is AIFREE.

Creatology focuses upon:

• the power and nature of creativity itself, and
• the nature and power of creativity within us… our own creativity,

developing our:

• creative power,
• creative natures, such as our creative capabilities and creative practices, and
• creativity knowledge, such as what it is, what it does, how it does it,

so we can bring our inspired ideas

for new life and new growth into being… together.

Creatology, the Subject of Creativity explores creativity

in 3 streams, each with a theme and 3 topics:

Stream 1. The State of Being Creative 

We uncover the power and nature of creativity itself, as well as the nature and power of creativity within ourselves. We explore what creativity is, what it does, how it does it, and what it gives.

Stream 2. The Way of Creativity  

We experience how we live and learn through creativity as we follow our own creative lights, develop our processes alongside our creative capabilities and practices, and see our creative outcomes reach new heights… walking our creative way.

Stream 3. The Co-Creative Culture 

We discover the elements of a co-creative culture, the roles creativity and co-creative capabilities and practices play, how groups go beyond where they have been before, and a group’s power to create change.

The Creative Education Method.

Creative Education is different to academic education.

Even though Creative Education teaches subjects as academic education does, it teaches them in a different way.

It uses the creative process.

This means we explore a subject by being creative. Much like a scientist used the creative process to learn about the nature and power of Water, we also ask questions, play with theories and ideas, experiment with these theories and ideas, and draw our own conclusions.

But rather than our subject being Water, our subject is Creativity.

This method of learning is called Creative Education.

It is an arts-based approach that leads with a question and inquiry (where all human creativity begins),

and is experiential, hands-on, project-based… based in do-ing, in be-ing.

What kind of projects can Creatives create?

Our projects might be ones we have already begun and want to build upon and thereby reach the next stage, or an idea that we may or may not have begun looking in to, or an idea may not have come yet but we feel a creative ‘itch’.

Projects could include a new change, a solution, a lifestyle, a livelihood, a difference… something we love… 

any idea or ideas we want to, need to, feel called to, create.

A business, a movement, a point of view, an exhibition, a peice of clothing or jewellery, a house, a film, balance, music, an event, a community, a piece of writing, an art work, a philosophy, a program, self-sufficiency, a front door to a home, a YouTube channel, a resculptured body, an app, a gift community, a regenerated eco-system, a studio, an alternative way of trading, a policy, a piece of furniture, an animal run for the outdoors, a school, alternative power sources, an ecos, a picnic area, a decorated wall, a book, peace, a village, a food forest, a new sport, technology, a gift, a story, a resource of somekind… our ideas are endless!

The Creatopia Village is a term

that describes SOC’s co-creative culture.

It is an intentionally creative community village.

The Creatopia Village is designed to provide and support the practice we need when learning about Creativity and developing our own creative natures and power.

It is also designed to hold space for and foster our practice at being in a co-creative culture. It does this through the use of spaces which our found in models of villages.

This way, we are in the cause of enhancing our creativity together.

See the list below!

Our culture is co-creative for lots of reasons including:

1. We need relationships to grow with, work with, and build with others,

2. We need practice living and working in co-creative cultures for our collective future to be more successful, and

3. We need an ecos to be creative-sympathetic, because, as people with a preference for Creativity, tend to hold our unique and valuable creative natures and skills back when we sense there may be a negative consequence for it.

The Creatology Award is an optional certificate for:

• demonstrating mastery of creativity knowledge, and
• demonstrating mastery of your creative capacities and creative practices.

To qualify for the Creatology Award, participants need to:

• complete Creatology, the Subject of Creativity including all classes and a project

either:

• • self-directed and self-paced, over any length of time within the Creatopia Village AUS$44 per month, OR
  • in a live cohort with 10-weekly classes in an Intensive with the Creatopia Village included, AUS$528
• submit the Satisfaction with Life Scale prior to beginning
• create a project that demonstrates your advancing creativity 
• log your project’s development, and
• create a “By the Book” book of your own creative guidance.

Upon Graduation…

• submit an updated Satisfaction with Life Scale, and
• present your project and a self-evaluation at an online Presentation Ceremony in the Cermony Garden in the Village. It is held two weeks after the last class to ensure you have the time to complete your self-evaluation and project, or the project’s current stage, and prepare your 10 minute presentation of these.

Please stay in Creatopia as an Alumni after you’ve finished Creatology!

It’s free to you to be a part of for as long as you wish.

SOC is online.

We are hosted in the Mighty Networks platform.

It has an app for participation from our phones, tablets and computers!

Mighty Networks offers a range of facilities for our Village school including:

• social profiles and links to our external profiles and projects
• finding creatives and their projects in our area
• posting, feeds, and private messaging
• topics and chat threads
• project progress-logs
• spaces for the Enterprise Egg, Project Prods, and the Creatopia Collab
• a studio for project design, tinkering, co-working, and collaborating
• a marketplace for cross promotion of businesses and projects
• a fire pit for whole-village meetings
• a library
• a garden for ceremony at the Creatology Award presentations,

and a

• Creatology Classroom for our prerecorded and live classes (and their recordings).

There are so many topics within Creativity to explore, we don’t make all of them a priority in Creatology. 

So, they are explored in PoP-Up Topics instead.

PoP-Ups is a free library of videos created by Jane Macdonald, about these out-of-the Creatology box topics.

It is available here, on YouTube, and within the School.

“I can’t give you any advice but this: to go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

At its source, you will find the answer to the question of whether you must create.

Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it.

Perhaps you will discover that you are called to be a creator.

Then, take that destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden, and its greatness.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

(1903)

AIFREE. The School of Creatology pays respect to our Creatives across the world and their great works that bring beauty, knowledge, and solutions to all of us and our earth, by ensuring nothing is made with AI. Everything… eg, words, structures, titles, thoughts, ideas, videos, images… are originally created by SOC, from scratch, and paid Creators. Nothing is taken.