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Discover Your Creative Type and Shape the Future
Discover Your Creative Type and Shape the Future
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This activity helps young people and youth workers to explore their creative personality and reflect on how they contribute to innovation, collaboration, and change in the world.
By completing the free interactive quiz Creative Types, developed by Adobe, you’ll gain insight into your natural ways of thinking, solving problems, and expressing creativity. The activity encourages deep reflection on the role creativity plays in shaping the future — individually and collectively.
By completing this activity, you will:
- Discover your personal creative type and understand its strengths.
- Reflect on how creativity supports collaboration, growth, and social impact.
- Consider how your creative identity can be nurtured and shared in your work or community.
Get inspired
Creative Types is more than a personality quiz — it’s an engaging journey that draws on psychology and design to help you understand your creative potential. You’ll explore 8 creative identities (such as The Dreamer, The Innovator, or The Producer), each with unique contributions to collective progress.
This experience invites you to embrace your originality and consider how your personal strengths can be used in teams, projects, or youth work. Try the quiz here: https://mycreativetype.com/
Take action: activities for different roles
Explore the role-specific badges below to access tasks that deepen your understanding of creativity, personal strengths, and collaboration in youth work and beyond:
- Young people can take the Creative Types quiz to explore their own creative strengths and reflect on how their personality influences their ideas, relationships, and aspirations. We encourage you to creatively express your identity through posters, playlists, or collages, and discuss how you can use their strengths to positively shape your communities or projects.
- Youth workers can use the Creative Types activity as an engaging tool for self-awareness and team-building workshops. By helping young people understand different creative orientations, youth workers can promote empathy, collaboration, and confidence in group settings. You can also use quiz results to adapt facilitation strategies based on diverse working styles and creative potentials.
- Youth organisations can integrate tools like Creative Types into staff development and programme design to strengthen team dynamics and create more personalised learning experiences. By mapping creative profiles across teams or youth groups, organisations can better balance project roles, encourage innovation, and embed reflective, strengths-based approaches in their long-term educational strategies.
Suggested follow-up activities
- Team Type Mapping: Have your (peer) group take the quiz and map out everyone's creative types. Discuss how each person contributes differently to shared goals, and explore what makes a team balanced and dynamic.
- Design a Future Project Together: Based on your creative types, challenge participants/teammates to propose an idea for a youth or community project. How would each creative role contribute to the vision, development, and execution?
- Make Your Own Creative Type Poster: Ask participants to visually represent their creative type through drawing, collage, or digital tools. Exhibit them in your space or online to celebrate diversity in creativity.
Claim open badge recognition
After completing this activity, participants can earn digital badges that recognise competencies in:
- Self-awareness and personal development
- Collaboration through diversity of skills
- Creativity and innovation in youth work
- Reflection on roles in collective impact
Who created this resource?
This activity is based on the Creative Types personality quiz developed by Adobe Create, a platform by Adobe that celebrates and supports creativity in all its forms. Rooted in psychological theory and designed in collaboration with creative strategists, psychologists, and designers, the quiz helps individuals discover their unique creative strengths and how these can contribute to positive change in the world.
The Digital Systemic partnership and the Cities of Learning Network support the integration of such digital tools into youth work practice. They emphasize the vital role of youth workers and educators in facilitating reflection and dialogue around the use of educational games and creative platforms — helping young people explore, understand, and express their creative potential in meaningful ways.
Next steps: Try more games that can be used for educational purposes. Or even try out online tools and create your own simple online games that showcase important topics in your local/national realities/priorities.
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Get activity badge
Creative Self-Awareness Explorer Get this badge
Awarded for completing the interactive Creative Types quiz and reflecting on your creative personality and its role in shaping change. This badge recognises your ability to identify personal creative strengths, collaborate with others, and explore creative identity as a tool for growth.
Skills and experiences gained:
- Self-reflection and personal insight
- Understanding creative processes
- Appreciation of creative diversity
- Motivation for creative contribution
- Use of digital tools for personal development
You have to finish 2 tasks to get the badge
Tasks
Task no.1
Evidence verified by: self-approved
Task no.2
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
Write or record a short reflection on how your type fits your personality or work style.
Task no.3
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
Share one way you could apply your creative strengths in a personal or group project.
Organisers
Digital Youth Work Resource Hub
Awero not-for-profit organisation manages this platform and develops it together with leading educational organisations. The European Union's programme Erasmus+ granted co-funding for building the first version of this platform. Contact support@awero.org.
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