Navigating Creativity and Wellbeing – Dr Molly L. Holinger, Ph.D.
From Accessible Disruption - Strategy Table Pathways by Tahira Endean, Ryan Hill, Anthony Vade
September 4, 2025 · 42 min · Season 2 · Episode 4
About this episode
Dr. Molly Holinger discusses the intersection of creativity and wellbeing in navigating disruption.
Connect with Dr Holinger today: Molly L. Holinger, Ph.D. Learn more about Dr Holinger’s Work: Creativity at Buffalo State. This podcast episode of Accessible Disruption features Dr. Molly Holinger, an Assistant Professor of Creativity and Change Leadership at SUNY Buffalo State. She holds a PhD in educational psychology with an emphasis on giftedness, creativity, and talent development from the University of Connecticut, and a Master of Science in Creative Studies from the Center of Applied Imagination at SUNY Buffalo State. Dr. Holinger’s research and teaching focus on the positive outcomes of creativity, such as engagement, meaning, and positive emotions. She also worked as a consultant for the Creativity and Emotions Lab at the Yale Center of Emotional Intelligence. Dr. Holinger discusses how creativity and well-being can be applied to handle disruption. She highlights cognitive reappraisal as a tool to reframe challenges, citing the example of being late to a party and instead of focusing on the negative, reframing it as an opportunity to avoid small talk. She connects this concept to a creative problem-solving tool called PPCO (Pluses, Potentials, Concerns, and Overcoming…
People in this episode
Host: Ryan Hill
Guest: Dr Molly L Holinger Ph D
Topics covered
- creativity
- wellbeing
- disruption
- cognitive reappraisal
- problem-solving
Keywords
- engagement
- positive emotions
- PPCO
- giftedness
- talent development
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Creativity at Buffalo State
Books & works: PhD
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