Know Thyself Creativity
I’m getting ready to present a master class at a great conference next week – fresh materials for facilitators so they can know their own style and expect the style needs of others to inform their session design and delivery. The purpose? To grow the confidence of group facilitators to be inspiring and engaging when [...]
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World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-25 – what a week that was!
Greetings all, Likely you are aware of my involvement with World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21, (WCIW) as its founder in 2001 and steward. Each year around this time my attention goes 100% (and then some friends would say) to support the energy, and shake the bushes so that everyone on the planet feels [...]
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Top 100 Digital Tools for Learning and Business
See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights Marci Segal, MS‘s insight: Found this 2012 survey rankings of 100 digital tools for business and education. Appreciate the breadth, learned some things wth regards to the direction we all are moving toward. See on c4lpt.co.uk
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What ‘going viral’ looks like
As someone with a preference for information that is concrete, practical, tangible and real, I appreciate Microsoft Labs infographic and 3-minute video describing the power of social network viral: what it is, what it looks like and how to track it moving forward. (Source Fastco’s Infographic of the Day: Watch Microsoft Visualize Viral Content.) In [...]
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The Future by Al Gore: Paradigm Cracker. Why our creativity is important now.
If you are considering what might be next and are open to stretching your thinking a bit, this blog post is for you. I’m reading The Future by Al Gore and am wowed by the synthesis of factors he presents and how they interact in ways we never imagined, nor experienced. It provides fodder for [...]
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What people want from a creativity conference then: is it the same now?
Went through old files over the weekend. Found feedback comments from a 1981 creativity conference I participated in as a volunteer leader. Do you think this is what people want from creativity conferences today, a generation later? An incredibly enriching experience. Answered many questions and created new ones. Challenged my mind, body and spirit and [...]
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Enter Your Future During World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21
Imagine your future 20 years from now, when you are rich, powerful, exceptionally accomplished and getting everything you want out of life. The behaviour patterns you use today – will they get you there or might you need a change or two? What’s holding you back, what’s propelling you forward? The context for innovation changes [...]
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Where to look for new ideas – insight from Leonard Cohen
The Future is an album by Canadian musician Leonard Cohen. His song, Anthem, provides a strong metaphor for insights into where to look for new ideas. Anthem The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. [...]
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New Word: VUCA, what it is, what it does and how to handle it
So proper, isn’t it. A new word to describe what we’re all feeling, the situations we face, and what others around us are dealing with too, and on so many levels, all at once. VUCA = Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. What a whirlwind, no? (Check out VUCA’s description in Wikipedia and its platform for [...]
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When are people most likely to express their creativity?
A source of inspiration every Sunday morning is the blog BrainPickings by Maria Popova. Today’s find is the article, The Science of Our Optimism Bias and the Life Cycle of Happiness, on the subject of Tali Sharot’s research presented at TED. “Optimism starts with what may be the most extraordinary of human talents: mental time [...]
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