Meta/Multicultural Skills Creativity: In developing Mind Maps you are provided with an overview of the task and the content of the activity. This is broken down into topic areas, for Meta/Multicultural Skills such as Self-management, Innovation and Social Intelligence, or adapted to suit a specific topic such as Multicultural development.

• Introduction: Here we introduce the topic (Cultural Awareness) and encourage you to create a Mind Map that summarises the key concepts/ideas on the topic.
• Presentation: Assign yourself a specific topic or concept to create a Mind Map related to the topic or concept, afterwards present your Mind Map to your tutor or others, this may feed ideas which promotes collaboration and further creativity and awareness. If working completely as in individual consider the examples in later slides to address creativity of the mind map.
• Assignment: Next stage is the presentation a more complex question related to the topic, here you can work individually or with a colleague to break down the topic, or issue into branches and components. This explores solutions, ideas, possible solutions to problems and identified a pathway.

• Exercise: Select a problem, article, potential issue and create a Mind Map based out of your understanding of the content. You are encouraged to map out key issues, characteristics, identify and make connections between the various elements on the Mind Map.
• Explain the concept: What is Mind Mapping. It is a visual tool that helps organise thoughts, ideas, and information. Remember that Mind Maps are flexible, creative, and can be used for various purposes.
• Highlight the Benefits: Mind Maps leads to better memory retention, the understanding of complex topics, that it is a form of note taking and enhances creativity within a team or individual.
• Basic Structure: Present a simple Mind Map, a Mind Map starts with a central topic, and from this topic we develop a series of branches radiating outwards from the main theme. As a new sub-branch is formed try to understand that this represents a further idea of the main topic, use keywords, colour code and use images if this presents a more visual idea. 
• Hands-On Approach: Work with a blank sheet of paper/screen, or use a Mind Map software and develop a Mind Map based on the topic (Multicultural Development). Here you are encourage to be experimental and creative. (Tutors should offer guidance and feedback as Mind Maps develops).
• Practice: You are encouraged the use on Mind Maps within regular lessons, generation of ideas or whenever a suitable situation occurs, a group or work problem, an unforeseen issue, a new opportunity, you may create a Mind map around any issue and look at new ideas of dealing with the situation of specific topic, use in any brainstorming sessions or within the planning of a new project.
• Review and Reflect: You should review the created Mind Map along with your tutor, examine the positives and the negatives, what may work and further improvements. During this exercise you are encouraged to self-reflect, did the Mind map lead to a better understanding, did it lead to a result, was it an effective exercise, did it provide a clearer picture in dealing or understanding with the topic. Celebrate your success.