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Strengthening resilience and creativity in higher education institutions. A workshop playbook to initiate a multileveled reflection process

Author: Watolla, A., Kuper, F., Deacon, B., Henker, L., Aust, A.
Published in: HIIG Impact Publication Series
Year: 2026
Type: Other publications
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19007842

This workshop playbook is part of the Learn-and-Do Kit to Strengthen Resilience through Creativity within Higher Education Institutions, developed at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.The playbook provides guidance to facilitate a workshop within higher education institutions and initiate exchange around resilience among different stakeholder groups within the university: leadership, teaching staff, technical and didactical support. The key element of the workshop is the Resilience & Creativity Canvas, which offers role-specific perspectives to reflect on practices at the interplay of resilience and creativity. The workshop playbook is divided into the following sections:Introduction Important notes for workshop facilitators Three exercises: Getting started, Reflecting different roles and Merging perspectives The Learn-and-Do Kit is designed for higher education institutions that aim to initiate a multileveled reflection process on their resilience strengths and vulnerabilities. It supports universities in exploring existing and potential creative practices that can help them strengthen resilience. This is based on an understanding of resilience as a process that goes beyond merely coping with an immediate crisis and includes anticipating crises as well as adapting afterwards. This processual perspective enables a comprehensive view of how resilience and creativity interconnect and how they can be reflected in practice.A publication by the research projects Organisational Adaptivity in the Higher Education Context (OrA) and Organisational Resilience and Creativity: Exploring the Future of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ORC). Both projects were conducted jointly by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and the Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics (CATALPA) at the FernUniversität in Hagen.

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