TWO-DAY WORKSHOPS
Expert Forum – Pick from over 32 sessions
Design your own program, pick from a variety of 90 minute and 2 hour sessions in this program. Interested in submitting a session? Go to the Expert Forum page
Springboard to Creative Problem Solving
If you’re new to CPSI, Springboard is your fast track to a deliberate creativity process for solving problems and capitalizing on opportunities. You’ll learn the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process, the research-based gold standard of creativity methods, and be exposed to the Foursight framework which can help you understand how you and your teammates approach challenges. Your team of experienced facilitators will use hands-on activities, real-world examples, and a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools to give you the skills you need to advance your personal and professional goals.
In this program you will learn to:
• Recognize and overcome blocks to creativity
• Identify attitudes and behaviors conducive to creative thinking
• Apply core concepts of creative thinking
• Utilize a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools
• Apply the CPS method to many simulated or real situations
• Consciously be creative when facing problems and opportunities
Creativity in the 21st Century Classroom
Donna Luther, Siri Lynn, Walt Stevenson
NOTE: This is a three day program which runs from Wednesday June 20 to Friday June 22!
This program is designed specifically for K–12 Teachers, Principals, Professional Development staff, Curriculum Directors. It is a fast track to a deliberate creativity process that will help you transform your classroom. You’ll learn to use the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process, along with recent brain research on learning such as Multiple Intelligence Theory. Your experienced facilitators will use hands-on activities, real-world examples, and a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools to give you a thorough, hands-on working knowledge of the CPS model, as it relates to the classroom.
In this program you will learn to:
• Accelerate learning with lesson plans that actively use creativity, brain-based research, and different learning styles
• Prepare for the Common Core State Standards with foundational skills that integrate creativity, collaboration, and performance-based learning
• Learn techniques to make learning more fun
• Give your students a competitive edge with teaching techniques used by Fortune 500 innovation teams
• Integrate the CPS process into curriculum design, daily lesson plans, and classroom environment
• Expand creativity using tools and exercises for both divergent and convergent thinking
• Assess creativity principles and students’ problem solving abilities
Advanced CPS: Tools & Techniques
Susan Newhouse, Mimi Sherlock
Learn to experience, share, practice, and create tools and techniques for facilitating the CPS process in personal and professional settings.
In this workshop you will:
• Explore a variety of divergent and convergent techniques for individual and group problem solving
• Learn how and where to apply different tools within the CPS process
• Practice facilitating tools
• Discover how to create and adapt tools
*Completion of a basic CPS course is a prerequisite for participation in this course
Advanced CPS: Facilitating CPS
Deborah Potts, Mary Ellyn Vicksta
Facilitation skills are central to the effective use of CPS, whether in formal meetings or informal brainstorming sessions. This course is designed for those wishing to solidify their knowledge of the CPS process and improve their skills in facilitating all stages of CPS. Characteristics of successful facilitation will be identified and practiced, and participants will develop an awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses.
In this workshop you will:
• Practice applying CPS to real world problems
• Experience CPS from several points of view—as a facilitator, a problem owner, a resource group, and an observer
• Explore & develop your personal facilitation style
• Receive feedback and advice on your facilitation
You will be challenged to explore new territory and go beyond what you think possible.
*Completion of a basic CPS course is a prerequisite for participation in this course. While it is not mandatory, it is recommended that participants take Tools and Techniques prior to taking this facilitation class.
Advanced CPS: Building Innovative Teams
Bob Eckert, Angel Sanchez-Huerta, Julia Roberts
As a team member, you’ll gain hands-on experience designed to help inspire and support effective and creative behaviors within the context of a team.
Whether you’re a team member or a team leader you will:
• Experience and gain insight into yourself as a team member through multiple interactive problem solving and team building activities,
• Identify creative behaviors that are useful as a team member and a team leader,
• Gain exposure to foundational and cutting-edge thinking about team development and highly functioning teams and
• Use the CPS process to solve problems within the context of a team.
*Completion of a basic CPS course is a prerequisite for participation in this course
Innovation Leadership
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David Magellan Horth, Dan Buchner
This course is an extremely experiential event! You’ll discuss two types of thinking: Business Thinking and Design Thinking. You’ll learn about diversity in innovation teams, discover new skills in leadership thinking, how your leadership role affects the innovative culture and climate and much more. You’ll use your own organizational challenge and gain insight into resolving it through feedback from peers, and the trainers.
In this 2 day hands-on event, you’ll experience and begin applying design thinking to your organizational challenges, to set new and practical directions. Innovation Leadership teaches you to reframe and clarify your challenges resulting in:
• New leadership behaviors
• New tools and techniques
• The ability to foster innovation in others
• Methods for moving innovation forward in your team
Thiagi’s Games Asylum
Thiagi, Dimis Michaelides
We know that creativity is a set of skills that are teachable, learnable and developable in all human beings. We also know that the good use of games produces training outcomes that are stronger and longer lasting. Join this workshop to learn how to use games to train people on creativity, and how to creatively design your own training activities on any subject matter.
You Will Learn
• How to use powerful creativity techniques to make your training more engaging and effective.
• How to use powerful training techniques to increase and improve the practice of creativity.
How You Will Learn
• No death-by-PowerPoint. This is on-the-play training. You will learn about creative play by creatively playing and applying the principles and procedures.
• All the content you can use. Our Asylum is supported by evidence-based principles from cognitive science and field-tested procedures from 30 years of real-world research. You will interact with this content before an appropriate activity (in the form of briefing), during the activity (in the form of coaching), and after the activity (in the form of debriefing).
• Structured spontaneity. A five-step system will help you learn and apply new skills:
1. Play. You participate in an activity to experience it from the learner’s side.
2. Deconstruct. You conduct an autopsy on the activity and discover its core structure.
3. Design. You create a template and use it to design your own training games.
4. Tweak. You modify the activity to suit your own resources, and constraints.
5. Facilitate. You conduct your training game with your participants.
What’s Unique About Thiagi’s Games Asylum? Here are six things that are special:
Accelerated. Thiagi and Dimis will keep you totally engaged with a unique blend of creative activities, reflective discussions and expert presentations.
Reflexive. Thiagi and Dimis will use creative training techniques to teach creative training techniques. You pick up effective techniques just by watching them in action.
Authoritative. Thiagi and Dimis knows what they are talking about. This workshop is based on sound theory and evidence-based principles.
Practical. Thiagi and Dimis have over 70 years in organizational firing lines around the world. They empower you with realistic tools and techniques for immediate use in your workplace.
Engaging. Thiagi and Dimis’ contagious enthusiasm, incisive humor, irreverent flexibility and magic (yes, magic) will help you enjoy every moment of the workshop.
Non-stop. This workshop ends only when you drop dead. You will have access to over 300 ready-to-use training games and you will receive a monthly online newsletter
Corporate Coach
Ros Taylor, Eileen Harris
There was a time when coaching was regarded as the provenance of the external consultant. Increasingly, it is seen as a management UpSkill and a business essential. A growing number of managers, HR professionals, teachers, and community workers are recognizing the value of engaging in coaching conversations to support individuals in achieving sustained improvements in personal and organizational performance.
Corporate Coach provides an introduction to core coaching skills and techniques for anyone wanting to apply them in their professional, day-to-day interactions. This program introduces coaching concepts, models and approaches and supports the skills of learning through participation and practice.
In this workshop you will:
• Coach immediately using the CREATE model
• Practice the skills and techniques of coaching
• Use the principles of behavior change – Impact, Thought, Emotion and Action
• Understand the essentials of leadership coaching for tomorrows leaders
• Understand the issues around confidentiality and the ethics of coaching
A reading list will be supplied prior to the course and participants will be invited to engage in some online coaching tools before the program.
Polarity Management
Liz Monroe-Cook, Clare Dus
What if there exists a whole class of issues that are inherently unsolvable despite the creativity of those addressing them? As Polarity Management® (PM) practitioners, we assert that these paradoxical issues not only exist, but present exciting opportunities for us to work effectively with complexity. Based on the work of Barry Johnson and others affiliated with Polarity Management Associates, PM is a proven method for balancing dynamic tensions such as head and heart, analysis and action, and one of creativity’s fundamentals, diverge and converge.
Diagnosing problems as polarities can be essential to understanding how to best apply creative thinking skills. Through discussion and the Polarity Mapping process, you will identify interdependent factors and address them through analysis, idea generation, and action planning. You will learn to apply “either-or” problem solving and “both-and” thinking. The universality of this model allows for a wide variety of applications.
The workshop will include the foundations of Polarity Management and its applications in Creative Problem Solving, general business, leadership and coaching. Through discussion, activities, and the Polarity Mapping process, you will learn to identify interdependent factors,or polarities, and to address them through analysis, idea generation, and action planning. The universality and flexibility of this model allow for a wide variety of applications both personally and professionally.
Our commitment is to recognize participants’ tacit wisdom about managing polarities regardless of experience. Intuition and experience can lead to a natural ability to, as F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “…hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”