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Friday, 3/7/08

9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Optional Pre-Weekend Workshop
 

 

 

Adventures in Reflection: A Kaleidoscopic Photo Experience - Kitty Heusner
                   

 

For most of us a brief pause to look in the mirror constitutes our time for reflection. The busy pace of our lives often keeps us from slowing down, considering our experiences and making the often unexpected connections. Change that pattern during this day-long, small group experience.

  • Use tools and activities for Reflection

  • Participate in dialogues, journaling, and movement activities

  • Reflect on Kaleidoscopic Photos

  • Take your own photos and make your own Kaleidoscopic Photo to take home

  • Learn from Kitty and a National Geographic photographer how to expand your creativity in every walk of life

Requirements: A willingness to slow down for a day; an openness to yourself and others; Curiosity of the world around you; A sense of wonder or wondering OR at least wondering what it's all about. Please bring your digital camera if you have one.
 
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Optional Pre-Weekend Workshop		 Creativity for the 21st Millennium
- Jack Wolf
 

As the United States is about to elect a new President, the economies of the East and West are experiencing major adjustments and the World stage is in constant change, individuals and organizations are seeking methods to:

  • analyze these events

  • determine how they will be effected and 

  • minimize the negative and maximize the positive outcomes of these occurrences. 

Jack will facilitate a day filled with immersion exercises to assist you in creating the tools necessary to stay at and  sometimes ahead of oncoming change. This workshop will address the topics:

  • How to increase my self awareness
  • What is my "stress response" and how to improve it
  • What are my boundaries and need for control?
  • How can I  improve my life?
  • How can I lead/effect others during times of change?
  • How can organizations minimize stress in times of change?
  • Creating  a personal plan of action
Join this session to experience personal and organizational change in a positive and safe environment where being a Lifelong Learner will give you the tools to increase your personal and organizational quality of life.  You will leave with a handout filled with exercises, tools and journal entries that will assist you in proactively addressing change.
 

5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

 Florida Creativity Weekend Begins

Registration, Round Table Exchanges, Munchies & Mingle
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. Surf's Up: Welcoming Activities
    
8:00 p.m. Keynote - Catch the Wave: Riding Your Own Creativity Wave – Susan Newhouse

 

Are you riding high on the wave of creativity, or being pulled in by the undertow?  At certain times in our lives, we’ve experienced both.  Creativity is like the ebb and flow of the ocean’s current – sometimes high, sometimes low, and always changing.  In this interactive session, we will embark on a journey to explore the fascinating, inspiring, and often startling depths of your own creative experiences.


Saturday, 3/8/078
8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Breakfast and Registration for Newcomers
 
8:15 a.m. Yoga: A Gentle Stretch for the New Day
   (Becca Tracey)

OR

Labyrinth Meditation (Joe Miguez)
 		 Begin the day with some simple Yoga to help focus and stretch your body and mind. No previous Yoga experience necessary. Come with an open heart and mind!
8:45 a.m. Welcome to a New Day: Brief Introductions & Overview
 
9:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. CEF YouthWise - A One Day Creative Adventure for High Schoolers

During this action-packed Saturday, high school students will explore:

  • unlocking their imaginations,

  • thinking in new and different ways,

  • expanding their own leadership skills, and

  • meeting challenges with fresh ideas and new solutions

through rhythm, music, drawing, movement, reflection, writing, conversation and so much more.  Participants will be part of a special program (CEF YouthWise) that has been used in many places including with teens in South Africa.

Young people are invited to participate in the entire Weekend or just Saturday. During Friday and Sunday, they will be a part of the total Creativity community, selecting concurrent sessions and participating in the Key Note experiences.

 

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

 Non-Teens - Choose one workshop per session from the following offerings.

Session I - Concurrent Offerings
 
  • Full Color Living
    Jennifer Walker

     
 Frequently we live our lives in "shades of gray." We limit ourselves, we withhold the full contribution we could make, we fail to pursue our dreams, allowing fear and uncertainty to draw tight circles around us and our efforts. The personal cost to this behavior is diminished satisfaction and achievement - a tragically under-expressed life. The corporate cost is a damaging loss of creativity, productivity and opportunity.

Full-Color Living begins with several key themes that focus on the "being" side of our lives. Then, it moves to "doing" -- identifying strengths and passions, so we can express them in the world. More than ever, the world needs each of us to bring the full expression of ourselves into action. In this way, individuals, groups and organizations will move beyond a ghostly gray partial existence into vibrant, technicolor work, relationships, and life.
 
 

  • Get Your Thinking Outside of Your Head:
    Drawing as a Thinking Tool
           Alan Black
     

 Architects, designers, graphic artists, engineers, even scientists use drawing skills to enrich their thinking.  Thinking inside our heads is one dimensional.  Thinking with drawings become two, three, four and usually multi-dimensional.  This session has been created to share many right-brain, left-brain, whole-brain and even NO-BRAIN drawing techniques to help move your thinking from inside your head and into the minds of many other people.  Bloom’s Taxonomy: Knowledge, Application, Understanding, Analysis, Synthesis, Creation and Evaluation will be the main structure used to begin your learning to draw.  The only skills and tools you need for this session are crayons, pencils, or pens, and the willingness to begin learning thinking at greater and richer levels again.
 
 
  • Inquiry: Tools & Techniques for Gathering Qualitative Data
        John  Holcombe & Belkist Padilla
     
 Inquiry is asking questions. But not just any questions; good questions. Questions that are accessible, that can be answered in part or in whole, and that can lead to meaningful discovery. Inquiry also involves observation, measurement, hypothesizing and interpreting. It requires suspension of judgment. In this session you will learn about, and practice, tools and techniques for gathering qualitative data. Data gathering and acceptance exploration are key components of the creative problem solving process that often involve interviewing and observation - qualitative research!
 
 
  • Unleashing a Creativity Wave: Tools to Expand Thinking
            Nancy Myers & Sherry Kessel

 

 During this session you will experience a variety of ways to generate ideas (divergent thinking) and to identify and strengthen the most promising ideas (convergent thinking). These are the basic building blocks for effective problem solving. Using them is enhanced by following the simple guidelines you will learn. Join this workshop for a playful learning adventure.
 
  • The 7 Principles of Lifelong learning
         Jack Wolf
With a grant from Chuck Walgreen, founder of the Walgreen Drug Company, Jack created his first leadership Academy in the late 1980s. Out of that course came 7 Principles that assisted the leaders in keeping the course alive years after the learning experience. During this session you will experience each of the 7 Principles and be able to relate each one to a practical application in your personal and professional lives.  This session will have interactive exercises focused on:
 
1) How to "present yourself" in each of your relationships
2) How to clear your mind from useless self talk
3) How to increase your capacity for change
4) How to increase your positive effect on others
5) Leave with a personal plan of action
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Session II - Concurrent Offerings - Choose One
 
 
  • Great Answer, Wrong Question!
            Tim Hurson

 Have you ever come up with a sure-fire solution to a problem - that didn't fix the problem? Most of us have. That's usually because we didn't really understand the problem in the first place. It doesn't matter how creative or brilliant a solution i if it doesn't address what's really going on.

In this session, Tim will lead you through the first step of the thinkx Productive Thinking Model. It's called What's Going On? and it consists of five simple questions that are guaranteed to help understand what's really going on so you can tackle the issues that matter.

The clearer you are about the problem that needs solving, the more likely you to come up with a useful solution. As Tim will show you, the way to do that is as plain as you hand in front of your face.
 
  • Discovering Consensus in a Bitterly Divided World
        Win Wenger
     
 Hands-on demonstration of techniques which enable both sides in a bitter controversy to work together to build constructive, useful, positive actions upon which all major interests can agree. Even as highly politicized and polarized a topic as global climate change, riddled with uncertainties on both sides, you and we can usefully address. Arguments can turn into agreements.
 
 
  • Writing Your Way Through Chaos & Confusion
            Alison Strickland

During the many decades I’ve kept a journal, I’ve experimented with writing strategies that can help us navigate turbulent waters, access intuition, discover healing insights, invite imaginative new ideas and find a way to a renewed vision and purpose. You'll have a chance to experiment with writing tools you can use over and over to enhance your growth and creativity. Whether you're  plagued with being too busy, challenged by change, riding a whirlpool of chaos, struggling with grief, troubled by these turbulent times or desiring to wrap your arms around your vision and wisdom, you'll take away writing tools that will never wear out.
 
 
  • Teaching Young People to Think More Creatively: The CEF YouthWise Story
           Kitty Heusner &
       John Holcombe

What helps students learn to think more creatively? How can we help young people develop more effective problem solving skills? How do these powerful skills support leadership development? During this workshop, Kitty and John with share the Creative Education Foundation’s five year program for youth in South Africa and describe how CEF YouthWise attempts to answer these important questions.  Review some of the Guiding Principles embodied in YouthWise .

 
 
  • Living in the Now
           William Sturner
 We all harbor anxiety about the future (over planning) and regrets about the past (constant reflection). Unconsciously, both dynamics  foster negative identities that undercut our otherwise intuitive capacity to actually Be Creative… in the Now.

We will dis-identify from our cumulative sets of childhood and adult personas with exercises adapted from Psychosynthesis and Jungian Psychology. Then we will affirm our ever-present Creative Core by drawing on the wisdom of Zen, the insights of the mystics and counsel of philosopher Eckhard Tolle. Music, movement, meditations, spontaneous play and sharing.
 
 
  • Celebrate what's Right With The World
    Joe Miguez  
Appreciative inquiry, creativity, innovation and possibilities help us to believe it and you'll see it, to recognize abundance, to look for possibilities, to unleash your energy to fix what's wrong, to ride the changes. to take yourself  to the edge and to be the best for the world. Have a joyous and creative time celebrating what is right with the world.
 
   
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. Creativity Tools - A SWAP Meet (Everyone may attend 2)
  Outstanding 'Surfing' adventures: A SWAP Meet for Sharing Creativity Tools and Experiences.
2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Session III - Concurrent Offerings
 
  • Happiness!
           Susan Wenger
     
 Would you like to be happier? A new movement in the field of psychology is devoted to the theory of happiness, and things a person can to do to improve his own level of happiness. This workshop will lean heavily on the books "Happiness" by Richard Layard, and "Happier," by Tal Ben-Shahar. The goal of this 90-minute workshop is to START you on the path to finding and setting your own personal goals, and increasing the quantity and quality of your personal happiness.
 
 
  • e-creativity: Collaborative Creativity using Web 2.0
            Marcia Berkey
     
 Web 2.0 is all about connections and collaboration. Learn how you can incorporate many of these powerful tools for teaching, business, and personal growth using a variety of tools. Some examples of these tools include: Blogs; Podcasts; Videocasts - asynchronous and synchronous; Social Networking (MySpace/FaceBook etc.); a variety of collaborative Internet-based documents including 'Office'-type documents, mindmaps, and wikis. These tools offer the power of sharing ideas and connecting no matter where you are or what time zone you are in. This session is designed particularly for business and education (personal or formal) uses. It is especially for you if you don't know what the above words mean J.
 
 
  • Team Building
        Marsha Jordan
     

Trust Empowers All Members
Taking Excellence Another Mile
Together Effective, Apart Miserable
Total Effort by All Members......No matter how you spell out TEAM, this session is a treasure of interactive activities, initiatives, and games that provides participants the opportunity to learn, practice, and embrace creative problem-solving techniques and teamwork. Boosting creativity, motivation and professional development is just the beginning.
 
 
  • Healthy Living & Positive Aging: Using Quantum Tools to Expand Your Consciousness
        Marcia & Alan Schulte
     
 What are some of the newer creative ways of expanding your consciousness in the 21st Century?  How do you use your quantum field to access higher levels of health and well-being? What do you know about clearing energy blocks and old trauma so that you can free yourself  up for higher levels of creativity.  See the different ways you can access greater concentration, problem solving, relaxation and well-being through quantum fields.  Learn about the frequencies that make this mind expansion a pleasurable experience.  Allan and Marcia Schulte of Quantum Wellness Center in Sarasota will explore these new avenues with you in an hour and a half interactive demonstration. You will also learn the process of Quantum Entrainment for self-healing.
 
 
  • Guided Imagery for Creative Problem Solving
        Ted Coulson
 The "aha moment" usually comes when we least expect it and dogged determination rarely works when we're looking for a creative idea.  In this highly experiential workshop we’ll explore ways to use guided imagery as a tool for coming up with unique and useful ideas.  Using a specially designed audio program to help your brain slow down and work in a brain wave state that invites insights and connections, you'll get fresh new ideas for challenge or opportunity you’re working on.
 
4:30 p.m.
  • Key Note Experience - Theatre of Innovation - William Sturner
       

Enter the Theatre of Innovation - where you will enact the major roles of the Superb Innovator: risk-taking, flexible, interactive, centered, visionary, motivated, receptive and self-reflective. Test your capacity for these crucial roles through a series of highly experimental exercises, including drawing, games, music, body sculpting, map-making, self-assessment and small group interactions.
 
6:00 p.m. Optional Activities or Explore Sarasota on Your Own
 
Sunday, 3/4/07 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
 
8:15 a.m. Yoga: A Gentle Stretch for the New Day
or Labyrinth Meditation
  		Begin the day with some simple Yoga to help focus and stretch your body and mind. No previous Yoga experience necessary. Come with an open heart and mind!
 
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Hands On/Minds On Session Choices
 
  • Insights Through Creativity and Rhythm
       

Integrated Insights Through Rhythm and Creativity
Translate the creative energy of the weekend into expressive sound!  Join RedZebra for an interactive, rhythmic experience and be invigorated by the pulse of collective harmony!  Musical tools will be provided, no previous experience necessary, just a willingness to have fun!  Chick-a-boom!
 
 
  • Polarity Mapping: A Path to Understanding
        Liz Monroe-Cook

Inhale and exhale, yin and yang, rest and activity – we live in the midst of interdependent elements, paradoxes or polarities.  How can a conscious approach to polarities lead to more successful and creative outcomes? In this workshop you will learn Johnson’s Polarity Management ™ approach, a powerful means of seeking the wisdom in resistance, distinguishing between problems to solve and polarities to manage, and engaging people with seemingly contradictory views in productive process.  You will come away with a practical and profound tool for your personal and professional application.
 
 
  • Rapid Protocepting
            Tim Hurson
     

This powerful session will teach you how to use key parts of the productive thinking model to come up with quick workable solutions. It has produced stunning results.
 
 
  • Wind Chimes
            Connie Howard
     

Create your own wind chime masterpieces that reflect your personality. We will be catching the wind and light for reflections.
 
     
11:15 a.m. Closing Session: The Perfect (Brain) Storm
 
12:00 Noon Lunch (Packed to Go!) OR Eat Together