Actress Lisa Valentine Clark, from “Once I Was a Beehive” and BYUtv’s “Random Acts,” taught BYU Education Week attendees about the power of creativity in her lecture on Tuesday, Aug. 20.
BYU’s annual Education Week is underway, inviting more than 15,000 people of various ages to choose from more than 1,000 classes to attend. Experts and well-known presenters, including Clark, are teaching life skills, strategies to overcome challenges, principles of the gospel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and more.
“I’ve been coming for a lot of years to Education Week, mostly because I love learning and it’s hard for me to pick some of the classes,” Katie Campbell, an attendee from Sandpoint, Idaho, said.
She said she attended Education Week with her family, and Education Week is a place for them to learn together and share what they’ve learned.
“Education Week has become a pivotal time for me to kind of reassess my life and the goals that I want to work on for that year,” Jilleen Campbell, an attendee from Riverton, Utah, said.
In her lecture, Clark said creativity is divine and there is value in being creative. She said people must give themselves permission to be creative no matter what failure they may face.
“One of the biggest takeaways for me is to be okay with being cringey, right?” Jilleen Campbell said. “Thinking about the ways that I can kind of overcome my shortcomings and my fears with that to move forward.”
Creative people, Clark said, take the risks that eventually benefit others. She said creativity is eternal, helps people discover their God-given gifts and is valued by those who make differences in the world.
“The thing that I think I’m going to focus this year on with creativity is what are the biases that I grew up with that I didn’t realize were there so I can kind of get them out of the way and just create,” Jilleen Campbell said.
Education Week classes will continue until Friday, Aug. 23, at 9:25 p.m.