Metaphorical Thinking Training as an Effort to Develop the Creativity of PKK Mothers in Managing Community Reading Parks in Kasturian Village

Abstract

This Community Service Program aims to optimize efforts to strengthen community literacy in Kasturian Village. This is done as a solution to address problems related to the low level of education and literacy skills of the community. Community reading interest can be increased through community reading parks. Optimizing community literacy strengthening is done by upgrading the status of literacy corners to community reading parks and by increasing the creativity of PKK mothers in developing community education. Innovation is needed in managing community reading parks so that they can be optimally useful as educational centers for the community. In Kasturian Village, PKK mothers are entrusted to manage literacy corners as centers for learning and developing community creativity. The community service implementation team hopes that through this program, the management of PKK groups in Kasturian Village will improve and the administrators or members will be more creative and innovative in managing literacy corners, which will then be developed into community reading parks. The community can be empowered through the use of community reading parks. One way to increase the creativity of PKK mothers is through the metaphorical thinking program. The results of this activity indicate that metaphorical training can improve the creative thinking skills of PKK women in managing a community reading garden in Kasturian Village. Through this metaphorical thinking program, PKK women practice creative thinking by utilizing metaphors linked to contextual experiences or tailored to the innovation they wish to create.