Frequently Asked Questions

All of the pages you need

are on the Participating page.

The school is hosted in the Mighty Networks platform.

They have amazing facilities for a school including awesome ways to get to know each other.

Mighty Networks has its own app, which is available on Windows and Mac computers, and iOS and android tablets and phones. Yay!

Check Mighty Networks out here if you’d like to see how it looks and feels.

Each Creatology Class will need about 2 hours.

They are recorded for when you can’t make the live!

SOC is in Melbourne.

So, our live classes are 7.30pm – 9.15pm AEST.

Our Project Prods, Enterprise Eggs, co-working session etc, are held at different times of the day each week and fortnight to ensure there is an equal opportunity for everyone to join in a few of these lives during the Creatology program. They are recorded and available in the Library for the whole school.

Every class is recorded

and they are all available to you for as long as you need them, in your cohort’s group, which means no other cohort can watch them.

It’s designed this way to ensure all participants can feel safe to explore their creativity and ideas and projects with a small group of up to 22, without the worry that people outside their cohort will watch their classes.

The live support sessions will vary from week to week from day-time to night-time,

so Creatives in different time zones have the opportunity to be in the lives… a messy attempt to ensuring equal access.

Support session times will be announced the week before as an ‘Event’ in our school. Events allow us to RSVP to each class and session.

RSVPing to the events helps you to be reminded a live is coming up, noted on your calendar, and helps us see who is coming.

When a live is about to begin, click the Zoom link from the ‘Event’.

It’s super easy.

If you haven’t used Zoom before, make sure you’ve signed up for it.

All sessions are recorded too, and they will be in their Space for you to watch.

More info is in the Enrolment Confirmation email.

There is only one thing to be mindful of really…

whether you are co-creating one project or creating an individual project,

your project brings one or several of your gifts, interests, callings, passions, ideas, etc,

to life.

It might be something you’ve already worked on and want to take to the next level, or something you’ve been sitting with for a while, or something that emerges as you and / or your group get creative with no real vision of it in the beginning.

In project-based programs, participants can feel intimidated by the thought that their project has to be massively world-changing.

This is something to be careful of… sometimes comparison leads to suppressed creativity, which we don’t want!

Our projects can be personal, impersonal, focused on our inner, or focussed on our outer, so the size of a project and its impact is completely subjective.

Your indi project could be simply YOU! Your dreams, your identity, your capabilities… your self-realisation.

Creatology is offered in two ways:

1. Intensives with a group

every Australian school term over the course of 10 weeks.

Our Presentation Nights… award ceremonies… are held three weeks after the last class so Participants can wrap up their self-evaluations and projects, and prepare their 10 minute presentation.

2. Self-directed as an indi

The Creatology Award is also available as an evergreen program, so that it can be undertaken any time of the year, in a self-directed and self-paced way, so it can take as long or as little time as it suits us.

Most certainly!

Let us know by sending an email to Jane and we’ll enrol you into the next term.

Monies you’ve already paid for being a Participant in the Creatopia Village, up to the cost of the Intensive, will be deducted from your Intensive’s enrolment fee.

However, if you have completed some Creatology classes already and have collected their badges, we won’t give you a credit for these classes. This is for two reasons:

1. The Intensive’s group need to be co-working from the beginning of term, so we need everyone to give from the first class to build relationsips, and 

2. Classes are based upon a lot of discussion, so they are different than Jane’s talking head in the prerecorded Creatology classes that you’ve already done.

You can use the project you’ve been creating in Creatopia though! 

Yes, please stay in Creatopia as an Alumni after you’ve finished Creatology!

It’s free for a lifetime.

Creatopia is a village that will always be offering PoP-Up Topics, classes, Project Prods, Enterprise Eggs, and the Creatopia interview panels,
so if you’d like to:
• continue learning and growing and building your profile, creative networks and relationships, and projects etc,
• collaborate with others on your future project ideas or theirs, or even
• offer your projects to those within Creatopia to benefit from (it is a village after all),
you are more than welcome to stay on after you complete Creatology or graduate with the Award.

The Creatology Award has been created under the influence of 2 things:

1. The demand for people with creative skills and knowledge is ENORMOUS.

All sorts of sectors are screaming for increased creativity…

educational, ecological, scientific, economic, technological, political, industrial, digital… even spiritual.

The only way they can become more creative is to have the staff on board who whose creative and co-creative skills are masterful because they understand what creativity and co-creativity are through both knowledge and experience.

Add the Award to your CV/resume… it may help you gain roles that are more suited to you.

You might even be able to approach organisations who value creativity to be considered for a new role of Creatologist within the it… someone who oversees the creative and co-creative health of the organisation.

2. Because of this demand for increased creativity, Creatives, most of whom have not learnt about creativity itself, need to be elevated.

All Creatives should be offered the opportunity to get to know their preference for creativity and learn how it is they create so they will always know what it takes.

And this work deserves all sorts of recognition, including an Award.

Most Creatives have not had, and will not find, the opportunity to study creativity itself unless they find a University degree with a comparable unit such as innovation, or critical thinking… but even then, creativity itself, including what it is, what it does, how it does it, creative capabilities, creative practices etc, are yet to be covered in these units.

Hang the Award on your wall… it can remind you that you created from your inner something in your outer that is goooood, and that you have the power to do it again, and again, and again.

It’s a “Yes” for refunds for Creatology Award Intensives,

but a “No” for the Creatopia Village. It’s a monthly subscription so we can opt-out at any time.

More information is in SOC’s Enrolment and Refund Policy.

There are 3 ways to solve complaints you may have:

1. Message Jane within the school about needing a call, and have the call with Jane, or

2. Write Jane an email about your complaint and to arrange a call, and have the call with Jane, and

3. Raise your complaint in a live, whole-school meeting, so that others can hear what’s happening for you and we can all get behind you to solve the problem.