Description

5:00 p.m.

Registration, Activities, Munchies & Mingle

Breakfast and Registration for Newcomers
 

9:00 a.m. -10:30 a.m.

Session I - Concurrent Offerings

• Expand Your Creativity:
  Maximize Your Potential -An introduction to creativity
  Hedria Saltzman
  
   

Creativity is in everyone.  How do we use it?  Having the ability to call on your creative resources and enjoy the flow of ideas is an important skill.  This exciting and participatory workshop will provide you with tools and techniques for living a more creative life.  The impact will be felt in your personal and professional life.   

We will explore the world of creativity.  What it means to be creative and how you express and show your creativity.  The tools and techniques introduced and demonstrated will show you how to open yourself to ideas and suggestions, as well as ways in which you can evaluate them in a positive manner. 

During this workshop we will examine:

• Personal blocks and barriers to creativity

• Organizational blocks and barriers to creativity

• Promoting openness to new ideas and innovation

• Divergent tools and techniques

• Convergent tools and techniques for evaluating ideas

• Reach Me!
  Don't Just Tell -- Show and Involve Me!
  Alan Black

Confucius is often quoted weekly by trainers and workshop leaders around the globe to have said: 

• TELL ME and I WILL FORGET

• SHOW ME and I WILL BEGIN TO REMEMBER

• INVOLVE ME and I MAY BEGIN TO LEARN

This interactive session based upon 30 years of study and practice will help you to increase communities of teacher/trainer/speaker/workshop leaders and all the participants or students as they learn from each other in a safe environment.

Included in the session will be:

• What to do before they show up?

• What to do while they are arriving?

• What to do as you begin?

• What to do throughout?

• What to do to close the session?

• What to do to continue the learning afterward?

• 4Cs: Creative, Comparative, Critical and Constructive
     Gordana Pesakovic
   

• Finding 'Neverland:'
  Our Creativity Code and Symbols
     Andre DeZanger
          

Neverland is that strange, magical place where we create. It’s sometimes hard to remember what and where it is and how to get there. In this session you will discover your unique road map to Creativity, your Creativity Code and Symbols. We will:

• Explore the work and techniques of Dr. Gil Clotaire Rapaille (author of The Culture Code) who discovered that we all have Archetypes (Subconsciously Imprints) on how we Create.

•  Uncover our own Creativity Code by using our First, Last and Most Profound experiences of Creativity.

• Individually create a Symbol of our Code and the pathway to get there.

• Jung and Osborne:
  Active and Applied Imagination
      Paul Groncki

The release of Carl Jung's "The Red Book" from its Swiss bank vault has renewed attention on Jung's active imagination process for exploring the
collective unconscious and dreaming.  Alex Osborn explored the applied imagination and fathered "brainstorming" as we know it today (and the CPS
process along with Sid Parnes).  This session will use mandalas and other artistic images produced by Jung to explore the similarities and differences between Jung's and Osborn's perspectives on the imagination.
Session will be very interactive.

You will:

• Gain new perspectives into the seminal brainstorming work of Alex Osborn.
• Come away with a new approach to generating ideas.
• Explore your own active imaginations.
   

• Navigating the Changes you Dare to Dream
      Hedria Lunken Saltzman
   

Have a change you want to make in your life? What’s stopping you?  Creative problem solving offers new and different ways to reframe challenges and choices. Based on the tools presented in the book Square One at 51, we will explore practical, easy to follow ways to deal with personal and/or organizational change. At completion of the program participants have a clearer sense of who they are, their strengths, a change they wish to make, and a plan to make it happen.

During the workshop Participants will:

• Examine who they are by looking at their personal strengths

• Learn Creativity tools for changing negatives into positives. .

• Articulate and examine a dream/goal they wish to accomplish 

• Explore their personal networking possibilities

• Promoting Resilience in Teens:
  A Fast, New Tool - PIP CPS
      Gloria Rapport
      Russ Schoen
      Bob Anthony

• See how large groups of teens can learn how to frame problems, create more options and become better problem solvers...in just 45 minutes.
• Learn how this fast, new tool (PIP CPS) engages teens and is used as a psycho-educational tool that promotes resilience and builds protective factors in teens.
• Learn how one community teen depression prevention program has integrated PIP CPS into its curriculum.

• We're Off to See the Wizard
      Susan Newhouse
   

• Creating a Spiritual Masterpiece:
  A playshop designed for the genius within us all
     Reverend Maria Clemente
   

"Do you trust your insight or your eyesight? When you believe more in what you don't see than what you do see, then what you don't see you will see, and what you do see you won't see! Experience a radical perspective shift by embracing the power of your inner vision."

• Learn how to rely upon your own unique way of seeing the world and honor your authentic voice.

• Use ne tools to experience more prosperity in your business and more happiness in your personal life.

• Enjoy quiet contemplation, compassionate listening, journaling, and community building.

• Altered States
  How to Provoke Yourself Into Creativity
     Art Emrich

• How to Make Innovation a Way of Life:
  Engage the Creative Thinking Skills of Every Individual
     Min Basadur
   

Innovation and recession, two seemingly paradoxical ideas, are front and centre these days. However, there really is no paradox because innovation tends to occur when there’s a real need for it. Many organizations miss this opportunity. When bad times arrive and sales are down, they take a short-term reactive approach, cutting jobs and other costs while waiting for prosperity to return.

A different approach would see an organization ask, “How might we engage all of our people, at every level, in using their ingenuity to develop brand new ways to attract customers and save money?”

Good organizations don’t wait for upheaval to begin making changes. The best business leaders – those who view continuous change as an opportunity and a challenge – are most likely to excel in recessionary times.

Come explore ways to:

• use innovative leadership

• improve costs and quality

• produce innovations

• help employees master new creativity and innovation skills

• create permanent culture change

These skills and approaches are critical to enjoying a sustainable competitive edge no matter the economic climate and will make innovation a way of life.

• Teen Forum
      Emma Downey
      Dianne Kiayoorawongs
   

Teen Forum is a Teen Only Discussion Session --- by teens for teens to explore their own creative development together

• Changing Perspective:
  New Ways to Stimulate Unexpected Connections
     Paul Groncki
     Kitty Heusner
  

There is tremendous power in connecting a single word and a visual image. Recently the international bank, HSBC has employed these word and image connections in their advertising campaign about changing perceptions.

• Active Aging:
  Using creativity and fun to maintain a healthy brain
     Anne Dennehy
   

• Creative Thinking to Boost Learning:
  How to gain 4.4 years in only one
     Win Wenger
    

• Girl Scout Trainers Meeting
     Sherry Kessel

• The Innovation Advantage:
  How leaders encourage the cross-boundarying of ideas and build a culture of innovation across the organization.
     Dan Novak

• Use times of economic crisis and restructuring as a call for long-lasting innovation
• Take advantage of loosely-connected subject matter experts
• Use integration, cross boundary collaboration, alignment, and virtual knowledge
• Learn 'how innovation gets done' in new environments
• Use Social networks, organizational networks, virtual teams, collaboration, ecosystems, Web 2.0, and co-creation with customers to encourage innovation in your organization

Gain new perspectives in:

• How you lead individuals, groups [marketing team, R&D team, executive team, other teams], and organizations to create a culture of innovation
• How leaders personally become more creative and innovative, and
• How social/organizational networks deliver value internally (improved collaboration and innovation inside organizations) and externally (building customer relationships, co-creation with clients).

• The Wonder Dance of Improv Writing
     Judy DeZanger
   

Using the playful techniques and games of Improv, we will have fun writing together and separately. We will use a variety of "prompts" (pictures, quotes) to stimulate our imaginations. Along the way, you will experience the process of "automatic writing" as a pathway to creativity as well as explore ways of coming up with original and unique metaphors which will open up new vistas and perspectives.  Surprise yourself with your writing gems and celebrate the writer within. 

No writing experience needed.  We will ignore grammar and spelling as this is about free, playful, creative self expression, which is the only way to discover the genius within.  Come enjoy the wonder dance of writing.
 

• Happiness: Do you want more?
      Susan Wenger
   

• Parenting Adult Children
      Kathy Leydon-Conway

Using creative tools and our intuitive knowing, we will examine that complex relationship between Parent and Adult Children.  How is it new and different, yet old and the same as parenting young children?  We’ll look at our own stories to explore:

• What is that relationship?

• What concerns me about it?

• Where are the opportunities?

• What do I want in it and from it?

We’ll work individually and collectively to open, probe and play with the possibilities. Join us on this short journey using story, metaphor, color, music, movement, journaling and sharing.

• Girl Scout Trainers Meeting
      Sherry Kessel

• Key Note Experience - Possumbilities:
  What did the day hold?
     Hedria Saltzman
     Sherry Kessel

After an exciting day of workshops, ideas, and interactions join Hedria and Sherry and your fellow Florida Creativity Weekend participants in our own 'Possumbilities'.  We will anchor our experiences and insights and we will look ahead to new opportunities. 

• The Enchanted Loom:
  Using the imagination to facilitate learning
     Mary Ann Smorra
     

This experiential session offers participants an invitation to explore the imagination as a powerful teaching -learning tool.  Supporting this perspective, a brief look at recent research highlights the mind-brain connection and neuroplasticity. This integral view provides a foundation for reflective and interactive strategies.   Subsequent outcomes illustrate the use of the imagination to stimulate metacognition, engage learning, aid retention, and inspire creative thinking. 

As a template for personal and professional use, the session unfolds to facilitate application to the personal journey, the professional training setting, as well as to the traditional classroom. Handouts will provide ideas that can be used in the future.  Be prepared to be actively involved!
 

• Soul Collage
     Nancy Myers
   

Create images of beauty which reveal your inner self. Use the technique of collaging to allow your soul to speak in new and deeper ways. You will create your own 'tarot cards,' your unconscious will reveal new meanings stimulated by the images you chose and how you arrange them. You will ask questions of your cards and find new voices and ways of thinking can be expanded over time.
 

• Possumbilities in Your Life:
  Dare to Dream
  Ann Bracken and
  Kathy Leydon-Conway

• Bridging Generations:
  Exploring Perspectives Across Generations
  Emma Downey,
  Dianne Kaiyoorawongs,
  Kathleen O’Leary, and
  Anita Scott

  
     
   

Does AGE impact how we view the world, solve problems and interact with each other? If so, HOW? Does WHEN you were born/what generation you are a part of change your perspective? Is ‘ageism’ real? Engage in problem solving tasks and discussions to help answer these questions.

Led by an intergenerational team, you will:

• Playfully solve several hands on challenges working together in teams

• Explore how our society views AGE and AGING

• Examine if and how AGE influences our own ideas and behavior

• Practice intergenerational/multi-generational thinking and communicating

No special discounts for students or seniors. ALL PEOPLE ARE WELCOME!!! Being ALIVE is the only requirement.