The creative-being model: the role of negative emotion in creative flourishing and the impact on positive education

In a volatile and ever-changing world, creativity and wellbeing are essential for learners to flourish. With lagging educational models and siloed thinking and practice surrounding wellbeing and creativity, a new model of creativity and wellbeing is needed. Creative-Being is offered as a dualistic systemic model that is grounded in a Systems Informed Positive Education perspective, encompassing negative emotion as a mechanism to promote both creativity and wellbeing, or creative flourishing. Designed to equip learners, Creative-Being offers fresh insights into the positive transforming power of negative emotion in the creative process, providing an important step forward in furthering positive education.