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

• Learn Your Unique Problem-Solving Style
  Min Basadur
  
   

Members of cross-functional teams has diverse problem-solving styles. How to leverage this cognitive diversity for strategic advantage is the focus of this session. In this highly interactive session, participants will:

• Identify their creative thinking and problem-solving differences
• Experience how styles differ
• Understand how to lead teams of strategic and tactical thinking styles to work innovatively
• Consider staffing decisions in terms of problem-solving styles
• Accurately diagnose client needs 'the first time'
• Recognize thinking skills and styles to develop in high-potential subordinates

• Managing Stress Creatively
  Francine Brown

• Exploring through the Kaleidoscope: Making a Simple Kaleidoscope
  Downey Dutterer & Mary McClendon

• Creative Energy: How to Get into the Flow
     Art Emerich
   

• The World Café for Empty Nexters
      Jane Goldwasser &
      Barbara Rosenthal

If you have been asking yourself, “What’s next?” “What will I be doing next year?” “Three years from now?” --- this is the ideal session for you to attend. You will experience the powerful emotional connections created by the World Café methodology, discover new possibilities from your colleagues, and have the opportunity to begin charting your own next pathways.

This session will be run as a World Café discussion among Empty Nexters who are contemplating life’s next chapter. An “Empty Nexter” is a person who has reached the age or life stage where the next chapter is a bit murky. Do I want to keep working or retire? Do I want to keep working for myself or look for someone else to take on the burden of running the business side of things?

The World Café is a series of discussions generated from prepared and spontaneous questions that emerge from the dialogue. Topics or questions that will initiate the sharing and discussion will include reflections on the satisfiers and dissatisfiers you experience at work, in your personal life, in reaching for your dreams.
 

• The Interdependence of Individuality & Team Building
      Rabbi TZiPi Radonsky

Anyone interested in creatively exploring a collaborative leadership style and who would consider inspiring themselves and others to offer their unique leadership skills within any community will find this session to be fascinating. Through Visual Explorer images and metaphors and personal stories we will explore an interdependent leadership culture. You will:

• Experience the challenges of an interdependent leadership culture.

• Explore the rewards of meeting others in the overlapping space where we are united by our individuality for the greater good. 

•  See how we can hold multiple realties that enhance mutual inquiry.

• Experience the wonder of the Visual Explorer cards.

• Creative Cognitive Fitness, and Fun!
      Anne Dennehy

In this fun and interactive workshop, you will enjoy creatively exploring how you can help yourself, and those you love, use creativity to keep a fit and healthy brain, and possibly prevent Alzheimer’s.
 

• Ten Top Tips for Communicating with People (Part 1)
      Larry Face
   

• Full Color Organizations
     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.
 

• The Stakeholders Game: Win/Win
     Win Weger

• Bridging Generations: Working in Effective Youth/Adult Partnerships
     Kathleen O'Leary &
     Emma Downey
   

• Ten Top Tips for Communicating with People  (Part 2)
      Larry Face
   

• Navigating Change: Square One at 51
     Hedria Lunken
   

This participatory, engaging and interactive session challenges participants to think about their lives and how they deal with change. Every voyage of change is also a leap of faith. It takes courage and commitment. You must leave behind preconceptions and prejudices – the “blocks” that keep you from seeing the world in new exciting ways. The process is simple, basic, uncomplicated and filled with “ahas”. Using practical creative thinking tools that Hedria has presented in her book Square One at 51, we examine coping mechanisms, actions plans and networking that lead to personal and professional success. Using humor, life stories and experience in a fun, welcoming climate, we will explore using the creative process to help individuals move beyond. Hedria says: “When creativity came into my life it changed my life, and when my life changed it was creativity that kept me going” 

• When the program is completed you will have a clearer sense of who you are and your strengths.
• You will examine something you want or need to change and start developing a plan for making the change.
• You will have an insight on how to use creativity tools for personal change.

• Increasing Your Success Through Creativity
     Mary Wolf
   

• Teen Forum
     Emma Downey
    

• Girl Scout Trainers Meeting
     Sherry Kessel

• Graphic Note Taking/Making
     Robert Alan Black

• Laugh, Play and Create
     Bobbi Gemma
   

Humor loosens minds, stimulates thought processes, opens new divergent connections and allows us the freedom to take greater risks. Laughter stimulates oxygen flow to the brain giving it more fuel. When we play with ideas, we enlarge possibility and trigger new constructs. So let’s laugh, play, have fun and create!
 

• UR Art: Letting Go, Picasso Yo!
      Joe Miguez
   

During this experiential workshop you will:

• Embrace the unexpected 
• Explore additional languages to help co-create an environment supportive of shared meaning, discovery and growth.
• Become more accepting to being open to outcomes rather than being attached to results

• Raising Happy Geniuses
      Susan Wenger
   

• Girl Scout Trainers Meeting
      Sherry Kessel

• Key Note Experience - Walking the Creative Path with Anthony Hyatt
     

After an exciting day of workshops, ideas, and interactions join Anthony Hyatt and your fellow Florida Creativity Weekend participants in 'Walking the Creative Path'.  Anthony will guide us to incorporate art, music and movement into our explorations of our learnings.  He will help us follow our own paths in a new/renewed way with enhanced mindfulness.   As we each consider what we are carrying and what is happening on the journey we will anchor our experiences and insights and we will look ahead to new opportunities. 

• Create your own Dream Catchers
     Connie Howard
     

Create your own unique and beautiful Dream Catchers. Discover dreams you would like to catch.
 

• Painting as a Path to Creativity
      Kathy Leydon Conway
   

Of the many pathways to creativity, an intuitive approach is often less noticed and less valued.  The intuitive path of stillness and deep silence can be reflective and spacious; yet it is diligent and focused, not passive.   Whether using pottery, poetry or painting, I find that my truest forms, words and images emerge from a place deep within me.
       During our time together, we’ll use stillness and guided imagery to access the flow of that place deep within us.  Then we’ll use paint to reveal what’s there.
       No art or painting experience is needed.  This session is not about producing a drawing or picture, nor is it about painting techniques.  It is about the process of using paint as a means of expression; a means of exploring your uncensored self and the energy moving in you.
 

• Polarity Mapping: A Path to Understanding
      Liz Monroe-Cook
   

• Creating Thought Through the Thought Centers
      Susan Newhouse
   

When coming up with new ideas, have you found yourself mentally tired and simply uninspired? Perhaps you haven’t discovered – or aren’t using - your personal creative hotspot. This workshop will show you how to transform everyday thinking into inspired thinking by fully leveraging your creative potential.
 

• The Meditative Lifestyle: On Being Mindful
      William Sturner

We will explore the multiple forms of the Meditative Lifestyle  – in stillness and movement, alone and in interaction, applicable to all settings - including our focused meditations, our everyday experiences and our many and varied involvements in the marketplace. The Meditative Lifestyle is thus an approach to life and is not confined to 'meditation' per se or any particular meditative practice. It is a way of  'living in the now' and from one's sense of center - all day, every day, in every way. The workshop is highly experiential and will include working in clay, Zen walks, varied ways of seeing and sensing, drawing, mental and emotional alignments and both still and active framing.