Florida Creativity Weekend VII
Possumbilities: Experience New Perspectives
March 5, 2010

 

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   Friday, March 5, Pre-Weekend Session 9:00-4:30

Class sizes are limited, so sign up to hold your place. Invite your friends to share the experience; You will all be glad you did.
  Panels of Possibility: using a visual processing approach to problem solving led by Ann Bracken and Christina Gonzalez
 

      This workshop will focus on using a visual problem-solving approach that can be applied to a variety of situations.  Engage in journaling, improv, and  collage-making to generate creative solutions to situations that pose challenges. 

  • Use visual arts, journaling and improv techiniques to engage with problem scenarios in a fresh way
  • Process solutions using writing and  partner sharing
  • Create panels using a visual-collage technique to depict present situation and desired outcome
  • Become familiar with a variety of process techniques that can be applied across a wide-array of situations

 
    Polarity Management with 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® (PM) approach, a powerful means of seeking the wisdom in resistance, distinguishing between problems to solve and polarities to manage, and leveraging seemingly contradictory views for sustainable change.  You will come away with a practical and profound tool for your personal and professional application. 

In this workshop you will:

  • Learn the fundamentals of the energy system (the “Infinity Factor”) behind managing interdependent factors like stability and change, team and individual, and head and heart.
  • Apply the PM lens to issues or challenges in your own work and life.
  • Have hands-on experiences—for example, Kitty Heusner’s Kaleida-photo gallery—to help you explore your key values and how to keep them in balance over time.
Have fun supplementing your current thinking and creativity tools with the PM approach.
     
   

e-Creativity: Digital Story Telling with Marcia Berkey


Come tell your story using photos, text, video and sound using readily available software (Microsoft Office) and other free technology. This is a hands-on computer course and we will be 'playing' with incorporating many different media types to tell your story. We will be using Windows-based computers and skills are easily transferrable to Mac computers. User friendly for beginners and challenging enough for advanced users. This is great for your own story or to teach to others of all ages. Contact Marcia at  profmberkey@hotmail.com with any questions.
     
    An Adventure in Easier Ways to Solve Problems with Win Wenger
Directly use and experience several of the simplest and easiest problem-solving methods ever created.  Most of them were only recently discovered and one has rapidly become a favorite of many CPS/creativity leaders and practitioners.  This session will be facilitated by the original discover of these modern methods, who will also help you explore the more profound meaning behind these techniques. There are plenty of major problems around which are well worth solving, but it will help if you bring with you to solve, the one key question or most worthy problem you would most dearly love to discover good answer to.
  • Participants will learn how to use such particular methods as "Windtunnel," "DEAM," "Evoked Sidebands," possibly "CrabApple" and possibly the "Problem-Solving 'Woodswalk'"
  • Participants will learn how to use combinations of methods as an especially powerful approach to problem-solving.
  • Participants will learn to apply the powerful Socratic "power listening" skills to each other and to themselves, that are inherent in nearly every CPS method including those they already are familiar with.
  • Participants will gain confidence in their own ability to solve problems generally, and may become more willing in fact to set about solving them.
    New Opportunity for 2010!
FCW is pleased to offer you the opportunity to meet with a panel of expert consultants
 
    Laser Consulting with Expert Panel*
Jack Wolf, Ph.D. CPT - Panel Facilitator
Joe Bettley, CPA, CIPT - Accounting/Finance
Larry Face, Management/Leadership

Hone in on your 'opportunities.' Business, government, education and  non-profit organizations are all experiencing challenges that can include the termination of productive employees and even the consideration of the suspension of their operations.  We are all in uncharted waters and leaders are seeking to find advice on the next steps that can meet these challenges and help their organizations survive and even thrive during this extended down economic cycle.

The Florida Creativity Weekend has invited a panel of local experts from diverse backgrounds to be available to leaders who are searching for advice on possible next-steps for these operations.  The structure of the sessions will be:

  • 45 minute private sessions with the panel

  • Commitment for follow-up after the session if desired

  • Expert advice from consultants with a combined 85 years of experience

  • The panel will be available on Friday March 5 from 9-4:30.

*Limited to six private sessions. This session is $200 which includes your expert consultation session for an individual or team and one complete Florida Creativity Weekend registration. Advance information is required. Please contact flcreativity@aol.com for more information.