Choose one of our Day-long Immersion Workshops

Available on Friday, March 1 (9:00 – 4:30) at USF Sarasota Manatee Campus

 

Acting Your Way into Being
Christine Alexander (Profile)

Join Chris for a day of exploration through improvisation and theater games…no acting experience required! In this safe, small group setting, you will have opportunities to be both on the stage and in the audience. Through the experiences, discussion, and your reflections, you will find new insights into communication, relationships, and yourself. This is a wonderful opportunity to allow your inner voices to speak to you and to discover the possibilities that come from living in the NOW.

OUTCOMES: Participants in this workshop will:
• Participate in a variety of Improv exercises and theater games
• Take time to reflect and discus experiences and insights
• Identify strategies to improve communication
• Make connections between ‘play-acting’ and one’s real world POSSIBLE

APPLICATIONS:
• Add new improv exercises and theater games to teaching, group facilitation or training
• Build on the insights gained in the workshop through continued reflection
• Discover a passion for the stage and become involved in community theater or beyond

 

Hands-On Technology for Teachers and Trainers
Marcia Berkey (Profile)

It is such a visual world and many people learn better visually. This all-day hands-on technology workshop focuses on using technology to help others (and yourself) learn. Whether you teach K-12, college/university, Sunday School, or are a corporate trainer, these skills will be great additions to your teaching toolkit.

OUTCOMES:
• Learn graphic manipulations and techniques for PowerPoint presentations, handouts, and more.
• Explore some video applications from a variety of devices
• Add audio for another learning style. Learn how to capture your voice (and/or the voice of others), edit the sound track, add music and distribute the files
• Discuss how Gamification and flipping the classroom might benefit your situation
• Expand your skillset to use the best tool for your purpose

POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS:
• To more quickly and efficiently find, create, manipulate and use graphics for business, educational or personal presentations.
• To gain basic audio skills used for course feedback, personal messages, podcasts, and explanations.
• To gain basic video skills to demonstrate, communicate, and have fun.
• To provide some tools for which your creativity can find many uses.

Note: ** This is a PC-based class.

 

D.A.R.E. to Go Out On Your Own
Jane Goldwasser (Profile)

This is a workshop for people who have dreamed of starting a business, solving one of society’s great problems, or pursuing any dream that has remained elusive for years. Often the biggest challenge to undertaking an audacious, wonderful goal is leaving the security of the known to go out into uncharted territory. If you have such a dream, join Jane Goldwasser for a day-long opportunity to translate this wish into a detailed plan for action. Use Jane’s D.A.R.E. model – D. (Decide), A. (Analyze), R. (Reality Check), E. (Execute).

OUTCOMES: Participants in this workshop will:
• Translate a dream into a major goal
• Develop a plan to realize this goal
• Learn to move beyond stumbling blocks

POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS:
• Implement the plan for action and achieve a major goal
• Apply the D.A.R.E. planning tools to other goals

 

Adventures in Reflection: A Kaleidoscopic Photo Experience
Kitty Heusner (Profile) and Ann Shank (Profile)

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
• Using one of your own photos submitted prior to the Weekend, make your own Kaleidoscopic Photo to take home
• Learn how the kaleidoscopic process can be
• Learn from Kitty and Ann 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 for the world around you; A sense of wonder or wondering OR at least wondering what it’s all about.

 

Tips for the Creative Brain Owner
Liz Monroe-Cook (Profile)

What’s the most important tool for your creativity? Your own brain, of course. The explosion of knowledge in neuropsychology and cognitive psychology has a lot to offer all of us brain owners when it comes to being creative and using thinking processes to their best advantage. In this workshop, we will explore some of these research-based insights in order to get better results from our creative thinking efforts, for example:

• Two major kinds of thinking processes and how they produce different results
• Why “intuition” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
• Avoiding the pitfalls of overtaxing our brains
• Knowing how to manage the tension between divergent and convergent thinking
• Using the best of our brain’s functions and respecting its limits

We will be drawing information from established experts and authors in the field and taking the time to experience insights through direct experience during the workshop. You will come away with ideas about how to be the best “owner” your brain can have, and with renewed faith in your ability to shape your own thinking through awareness and experience.

 

Jumpstart Your Creative Thinking Skills – A One Day Introduction to CPS
Gloria Rapport (Profile) and Hedria Lunken Saltzman (Profile)

This one-day program will give you the foundations of the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process. Learn to distinguish which problems benefit from creative solutions, how to define the problem so it invites solutions, ways to encourage idea generation, and how to finesse those ideas into an action plan. You will become more effective at deliberately applying imagination and finding more opportunities for growth in your personal and professional life. Create solutions that work for you.

OUTCOMES: Participants in this workshop will:
• Experience a new way of probing problems and challenges in your personal and professional life
• Learn faster and more effective ways to spur innovative ideas
• Practice easier methods for evaluating ideas
• Develop a common language for problem solving when a team attends POSSIBLE

APPLICATIONS:
• Use your newly learned skills to work on real-world challenges
• Incorporate effective idea generation in meetings and training.
• Improve the way a team functions within your business or organization

 

Being Fully Alive: Activating Your Creative Core
William Sturner (Profile)

You will access the fullness of your creative identity – empowering a fully creative lifestyle that invigorates everything you image, do and create. * One, you’ll amplify your conscious learning through joyful and serious play. * Two, you’ll invoke insights from the unconscious by drawing images of your potential and sculpting them in clay and movement. * Last, you’ll invoke visions of your deepest and most creative identity through music, meditation and soulful empowerments. The result: an affirmation of your core identity: a radiant and creative being capable of attracting success, delight and pizzazz in every aspect of your life.
This highly interactive workshop features experiential exercises galore: movement, sharing, crafts, imaging, soul-searching, celebrations and provocative music. The key words: aspire, attract, love, flow, witness, spirit, contribute and give thanks.

OUTCOMES: Participants will be empowered to:

• Experience being fully alive: playful, aware, and capable of enjoying the ability to celebrate your conscious, pre-conscious and formerly unconscious energies and images.
• Trust in your natural and continuous unfolding, allowing yourself to be and express your creative essence – independent of set systems or merely cognitive pursuit of goals.
• Use play, music, active meditation, drawing and movement to stimulate the fullness of your creative core – that field of radiant energy, which, once affirmed, will invigorate every aspect of your life.

APPLICATIONS: Participants are likely to:
• Celebrate their natural ability to be instinctually aware, loving and creative.
• Further develop their creative unfolding by continuing to apply the workshop’s exercises
• Honor the power of their conscious activity as well as the many insights and messages waiting to bubble up to and over the threshold of consciousness.