You may choose to begin your week by attending a Pre-Conference Workshop or wrap things up with a Post-Conference Workshop. Each is unique and offers an opportunity to dive into that which piques your interest! Most of the Pre-Conference Workshops will take place on Saturday, June 20th from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and lunch is included; one does continue to Sunday morning. Post-Conference workshops are either one day, Thursday, June 25th or two days, Thursday, June 25th & Friday, June 26th.
Pre-Conference Workshops, Saturday, June 20th:
The Artistic Edge of Facilitation
Innovate Like Edison
Introduction to Polarity Management®
Painting On Water™
Post-Conference Workshops, Thursday, June 25 & Friday, June 26th:
Gaining FourSight for Solutions - SOLD OUT
Zero 2 Participate (Z2P)
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS - Saturday, June 20
The Artistic Edge of Facilitation
Developing Your Personal Creative Revolution
Donna Milani Luther | Walt Stevenson
Using the principles of Studio Thinking, this session challenges your creative sensibilities and suggests it as a metaphor for developing a thinking and action framework. This session is designed for participants who want to enhance their understanding of the role that arts play in the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process. When participants finish this session, they will have increased their skills in designing and facilitating CPS workshops.
Participants will be encouraged to improve their thinking in opportunity challenge identification, problem-solving, dilemma confrontation, and management facilitation. Techniques such as movement, music, improvisation, poetry and art in a variety of media will be explored throughout the session. All participants are invited; it is not necessary to be a practicing artist to attend this session!
Arts-driven experiences and their applications to real-world challenges— in business, education, and the public sector-- will be the foundation of the program.
Please note: This session is designed for participants familiar with the CPS Process and who want to enhance their understanding of the role that arts play in the creative problem solving process.
Innovate Like Edison
The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor
Sarah Miller Caldicott
Although over 70 books have been written about America’s most famous inventor and innovator - Thomas Edison - most of them have flowed from the pen of the historian. Few have been written by business people or practitioners of real creativity or innovation itself.
In this workshop, Edison’s great grandniece, Sarah Miller Caldicott – a 25-year Marketing veteran and innovation thought leader – will lead an interactive day of discovery and discussion around her analysis of Thomas Edison’s own innovation practices. Following 3 years of research with the world’s leading authority on Thomas Edison – Dr. Paul Israel, of Rutgers University – Sarah identified what she calls Edison’s Five Competencies of Innovation. These competencies enabled Edison to pioneer 6 world-changing industries in less than 40 years, generating a market value exceeding $100 billion.
Sarah, supported by creativity champion David Horth from the Center for Creative Leadership, will take participants through 4 of the 5 Edison Competencies, identifying how each attendee can use them either at work or in their personal endeavors. Focus will be placed on how Edison’s own timeless methods can be established as a best-practices approach to creativity and innovation in the 21st century.
Introduction to Polarity Management®
Power up through Paradox
Elizabeth Monroe-Cook
Sometimes applied creativity doesn’t seem to produce results and can even seem to provoke more problems in complex situations. Success with complexity requires careful analysis of underlying dynamics or opposing forces before applying creative problem solving or working toward any resolution. Business writers increasingly recognize that those who manage paradox (or polarities) well out-perform those who do not. This is true of individuals as well as organizations.
This pre-conference session, Introduction to Polarity Management, is designed to help you expand your thinking through awareness of the phenomenon of interdependent pairs—polarities—and to learn how to manage them over time. You will also gain insights about how to apply creative problem solving more effectively.
This one-day program will help you understand the fundamental principles of Polarity Management, how polarities work, and the steps for managing polarities effectively. Learning polarity management will help you address the five “C’s”: Complexity, Change, Conflict, Chronic conditions and Cross-cultural issues. You will also see that a sixth “C,” Creativity, contains polarities to manage over time.
This workshop will help you understand:
- The background and context for Polarity Management;
- The critical importance of managing polarities in complex times;
- The nature of polarities; and
- The difference between “problems to solve” and “polarities to manage.”
- Identify polarities;
- Map polarities and predict their movement; and
- Plan actions to tap the power of polarities.
This workshop will suit the needs of individuals in many different settings. Based on the work of Barry Johnson, Ph.D., Polarity Management® is widely used in leadership development, organizational strategy, coaching, and group or team effectiveness work.
Painting On Water™
Think Like an Artist – Act Like an Entrepreneur
Amy Basic
Entrepreneurs and business innovators could learn a lot from the artists’ ability to handle adversity and challenge, push the boundaries of imagination, survive transformational change and sustain creativity. These buzz words have been floating around since the Harvard Business Review first suggested that the MFA is the new MBA. In his book “A Whole New Mind,” Daniel Pink explains ‘Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future’. Are you ready to exercise your right-mind?
Painting On Water™, developed by Amy Basic, is for business leaders who need to be creative to survive or gain a competitive edge, professionals who have to be innovative for their work and entrepreneurs who want to ride the new wave of opportunities. This one of a kind, 100% hands-on session will offer you interactive, inspirational and spiritual insights. Be prepared to enhance your awareness and appreciation of beauty and opportunities while you journal your transformation for personal and business applications. Both relaxing and energizing, the workshop will fluctuate between polarities of meaning, allowing you to learn about the essence of human experience and its relationship to the universe. Past participants have found it to be a fun, unique and a thought-provoking creative experience. Bring a partner or colleague(s) to enhance your experience!!
Amy's Art: http://web.mac.com/amybasic/iWeb/Segami%20Studios/Art.html
Amy's Blog: http://PaintingOnWater.blogspot.com/
You Will Learn:
- How an ancient meditative art becomes alive;
- The Asian cultural wisdom of "Being";
- How to apply the universal principals of "Yin Yang";
- To let go, to experience the "Flow";
- To shift perspectives;
- To build your creativity confidence;
- Tools and Techniques;
- About water as metaphor;
- To collaborate with nature and others;
- Personal reflection;
- Walk away with your very own painting(s.)
Take Aways:
- Experience a unique art form
- Insights to Asian culture and philosophy
- Your own contemporary Suminagashi painting
- Your personal journal: the inner journey
Who should attend?
People who think they are not creative, not able to draw or paint. People who have to be creative and innovative. People who are thirsty for learning new things, ready for transformation and those who are simply curious. Above all, people who like Chinese food or Sushi should attend.
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS - Thursday, June 25 & Friday, June 26
Gaining FourSight for Solutions -- Sold Out: please call 508-960-0000 with questions
Gerard Puccio
Individuals differ in how they engage in Creative Problem Solving. People’s energy, enjoyment, and productivity will vary throughout the process; as seen in: problem identification, idea generation, solution development, and implementation planning. The FourSight assessment tool is designed to help participants identify their preferences within the Creative Problem Solving Process. Respondents gain insight into their own degree of preference as a: Clarifier, Ideator, Developer, or Implementer. More than 20,000 people around the world have used FourSight as a tool to support creativity training programs, team-building programs, professional development, organizational development, and problem solving.
This program will:
- provide participants with insights into their own unique creativity style, and
- enable participants to explore how they can incorporate FourSight into their own professional work.
Learning Objectives - Participants will:
- Develop a deeper understanding of their unique approach to the creative process and create a development plan for enhancing personal creativity.
- Leverage an understanding of creativity styles to enhance individual and team creativity.
- Recognize how creativity styles influence communication and teamwork.
- Receive certification in the use of the FourSight assessment tool and feel knowledgeable and confident in applying the tool with individuals and in organizations.
Zero 2 Participate (Z2P):
Engagement Strategies to Increase Pariticipation, Learning & Fun
This 2-day program offers the novice to the expert with the discovery, rationale and application of engagement strategies that can transform your future sessions to become memorable. Your participants will soon say, "You make learning fun!" Whether the next session you facilitate, train, teach or present is a ½ hour workshop or several days in a warm, window-less room, you’ll discover how to create the dynamic, interactive and yet practical participation that enhances creativity. You’ll experience how to effectively keep the energy up, the timing right and the participants engaged.
Rules of thumb we'll learn:
- Get the group from zero to participate in the first 60 seconds
- No talking heads. No boring meetings. No death by power point
- Diverge - Converge is NOT just about CPS. Learn to really apply it
- Accelerate their attentiveness, understanding, consensus and buy-in.
Z2P Engagement Strategies we'll learn:
- Go ahead...time me
- Stuff that works every time
- Setting the stage for participation
- Boring activities changed into games
- Share your favorite tools and techniques
- Types, styles and profiles... and why it matters
- Sticky dots to sticky walls: tools that move people
- Secrets of diverge and converge (Tip! Volume & activity)
Learning Objectives - You will:
- Learn tools, techniques & strategies through real-time experiential participation
- Learn why it works, when to use it, how to use it and the secrets for each tool
- Learn why graduates said; "This should be mandatory training for all presenters!”
- Take away a notebook that you participate in creating.
Who should attend?
Anyone who gets "in front" of a group: creativity consultants, group process facilitators, trainers, professors, coaches, team builders, OD consultants, Lean 6 Sigma facilitators, youth group leaders, ministers, keynoters, speakers, and more.
