Special Events

Throughout the CPSI weekend, there will be a variety of special events one can attend. Whether you'd like to stay up late and attend (or present) impromptu workshops, bid on great items during our auction, or would like to familiarize yourself with the CPSI Conference, don't miss our special events:

First Timer Orientation

Thursday, June 20 - 4.00 PM to 5:00 PM

Join us for the inside scoop at the First Timers’ Orientation; an informal gathering designed for newcomers. Discover how CPSI works, learn the jargon, get your questions answered and meet other newcomers.

Nite Flites

Friday & Saturday - 9:30 PM to 10:30 PM

The Nite Flites Program provides a continuation of the day’s Open Expert Forum sessions in an unstructured and flexible series of evening programs. All CPSI attendees, both leaders and participants, are encouraged to offer and attend Nite Flites. Please look for the Nite Flite information area in the Hub.

CEF Live & Silent Auction

Saturday, June 22 - 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Please join us at this year’s Auction on Saturday evening for a fun filled night of high stakes bidding, strong drinks and an all around good time.

Don’t forget that during the week, tickets will be sold for the 50/50 Raffle and bid on Silent Auction items. You can also purchase raffle tickets at the registration desk and the bookstore.

Yoga & Meditation

Allie Middleton

Allie Middleton

Allie Middleton is a transformational coach and consultant who creatively integrates physical, emotional, mental and spiritual practices in a way that yield sustainable individual, team and organizational results.

She innovatively applies emerging body-mind research and embodied presence practices to deepen engagement and help new insights and concrete learnings ‘stick.’ Allie is known for her deep wisdom, passionate energy and loving attention to unleveraged potential, making her an exceptionally gifted resource for individuals and teams willing to engage in the deep dive of real change. With over 35 years of leadership experience, including Wall Street corporate legal services, and several award winning not-for profit and government leadership projects, Allie has championed many programs to enhance team and individual performance with significant positive performance outcomes. In her consulting life she has received rave reviews as a facilitative coach and thought partner to many leaders and teams dealing with complex change. Allie completed her doctoral studies in leadership, collaboration and organizational change and is strongly influenced by action research and the Theory U change process. She is a licensed psychotherapist, certified NLP Master Coach and professional level yoga and meditation instructor. An avid explorer of the creative potential both within and without, Allie loves to do cool new things with youth, write poetry, curate art exhibits, and of course explore sacred sites around the globe with Newell.

Open your mind, heart and body to another new day! Allie offers hatha and raga yoga practice guidance as well as meditation each morning. All experience levels invited to join moderate level raga/hatha yoga practice, Kripalu style.

For the first 3/4 hour, she will offer gentle stretching and some more advanced breathing practices accompanied by postures. During the last 1/4 hour, she will lead relaxation and or sitting meditation.

Join us for either or both, and those who wish to do other personal practices, please come join us in sadhana, as we welcome the new day together.

The Skinny: 3 things you will get from this session:

• A deep and heart felt integration of CPSI learnings

• A foundation for physical strengthening and relaxation, fostering mental focus and emotional fluidity throughout the conference

• A deeper enjoyment and conscious celebration that satisfies our body-mind integration challenges!

LAB-yrinth

Joe Miguez

Joe Miguez

Joe has built an international consulting practice based on stimulating creativity in individuals and groups to achieve personal and organizational innovation.

Facilitator, change agent and labyrinth builder, Joe has worked with clients from major corporations, media, college and religious retreat centers. He has conducted workshops in Canada, Mexico, Europe, Turkey, Singapore, Chile, and the United States. His clients include DuPont, Maryland Insurance, Aera Energy, FedEx and many others. His professional commitment focuses on inspiring reflection in action, step by step. Joe has been the prime driver in bringing the concept of the LAByrinth into the practice of creativity and innovation.

I have been frequently asked what got me interested in the concept of the Labyrinth (LAB). Having a background in art, I resonated with the design, which I saw for the first time in the NYT.

As a child, one of the joys for my parents was to go Atlantic City. My father, who was born in Galicia, Spain, held me in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, saying to me that when the tide was high here, it was low on the other side of the world… ebb and flow, a textile of life…

Almost 20 years ago I brought the concept of the LAB-yrinth to CPSI, to transcend the normal tools and techniques of creative thinking… Neuroscience is affirming my decision. In the years that I have immersed myself in the concept, symbol and construct, I have compressed it into its potent essences for transformation: Mountain 10.

My challenge at this phase is sustainability, for you and me… Many years ago I attended an ASTD conference where I heard Tom Peters say, “Change is easy, it is sustaining the change that is the CHALLENGE.”

I consider the LAB to be four fields collapsing into one singularity. Every point in the field contains pent-up motion defined by vectors (arrows expressing direction and magnitude, think scalar energy), each of which is moving at odds with every other vector and is anything but passive. That is the opportunity… Can we do the dance?

Co-creating Everything - CPSI Leaders Only

Susan Koehler

Susan Koehler

Susan Koehler evolved gently from a preschool teacher - to a highly strategic, effective corporate turnaround and operations specialist skilled in developing programs and projects designed to enhance education and corporate wellness - to a co-creative energy intuitive and guide. She playfully co-creates with nature, reading and shifting energy in the human bodyfield.
She works with individuals and groups, exploring the metaphysical effects of mind-field theories and dis-ease. She is focused on the ways in which archetypal myths of family and culture influence health and wellness.

Wednesday June 19, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

NOTE: For CPSI Leaders Only

There is a paradigm in the western world that is focused on answers, particularly right or good answers. If one can simply figure out the cause, the why or the root of the problem, then one has increased the odds of discovering a solution. This is currently true in medicine, in education, in business and generally in life. But what if the paradigm changed? What if the perceived negative effect on the organization, be it a body, a school, a workplace or a business was actually the solution, inherent in the system itself? What if the cause was the effect, the effect the cause? What if we stopped looking at problems?

Together we will investigate true actualization – embracing infinite sources of creativity and unlimited possibilities of development. We will examine the ‘cause and effect’ dynamic as an old paradigm, a distortion of a single line delineation with no options or probabilities. Finally, we will explore silos of energy and their undeniable connection in the zero point field.

Such was the challenge that was presented to me in the late summer of 2007. The medical world had reviewed my persistent physical symptoms and delivered a dismal prognosis – the big ‘C’. There was no talk of fixing this problem, but rather of a variety of debilitating procedures to suppress and treat it…the most hopeful solution - extending my life by months, perhaps even a year.