Using AI to Boost Your Creative Potential
1h 4mIntermediate2025-10-06
Authors
Alison McCauley
CEO of Unblocked Future, Author, Speaker
Course details
Artificial intelligence can boost your creativity and build your creative confidence–if you use it well. Whether or not you think of yourself as a creative person today, learn how AI can help you overcome mental blocks, give you creative skills, and unlock your creative potential across your work and personal life. Join instructor Alison McCauley as she shows you how to use a range of AI tools and approaches to enhance your creativity and foster a mindset for innovation.
Learning objectives
Break through creative blocks and barriers.
Intelligently and strategically employ AI to strengthen your creative skills.
Avoid creative pitfalls of leveraging AI so you maintain control of your creativity.
Learn how to play with AI to find new avenues of opportunity.
Discover how to use AI to ignite new innovation.
Learn how AI can find creative patterns you may have overlooked.
Learning objectives
Break through creative blocks and barriers.
Intelligently and strategically employ AI to strengthen your creative skills.
Avoid creative pitfalls of leveraging AI so you maintain control of your creativity.
Learn how to play with AI to find new avenues of opportunity.
Discover how to use AI to ignite new innovation.
Learn how AI can find creative patterns you may have overlooked.
Skills covered
AI-Assisted Design and MediaDesign ThinkingCreativityAI Productivity and Everyday UseUser ExperienceVideoGraphic DesignAnimation and IllustrationProfessional DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Everyone can boost their creativity with AI
How AI Can Boost Your Creative Engine
- Unleashing your creative potential with AI
- Human imagination meets machine intelligence
Understanding the New Possible
- The many ways to engage with AI
- The power of play in unlocking AI
- Chain reactions - Igniting ideas with AI
- Creative disruption - Interrupt entrenched patterns
- Unexpected connections - Novel pairings, bold insights
- Rich sketching - Bringing ideas to life
- Get unstuck - Shatter mental blocks
A Path to Make AI Work for You
- Why AI requires a new relationship with software
- Communication basics to get more from AI
- Matching AI to your creative needs
- Make your own learning lab
- How to make AI an everyday creative partner
- Enhance vs. outsource - Be smart about when you turn to AI
- The impact of AI on creative confidence
Conclusion
- Time to dive in