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Convergence 1997
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High Hat Poetry Goes Low Brow

Anne Durrum Robinson, Creativity, Communication and Common Sense

Of course you're a poet ... you just don't know it ... yet! The upcoming millennium is prime time for rhyme so join us in this fun session where you will learn to turn out haikus, limericks and other “poesy” with gay abandon. You will have a chance to give outermost expression to your innermost thoughts and feelings.

Participants will:

• Learn how to use mindmapping and clustering.
• Learn how to enrich your mind with radiant thinking.
• React to other writing in your own expressive way.

Letting Go Picasso

Joe Miguez, Principal, Expanding Thought

Many of us hold on to ideas, beliefs, feelings and attitudes that we should have discarded long ago. Learning the art of detachment is critical if we are to grow, learn and become more creative. This session will help participants examine how to let go in order to achieve a higher degree of creativity. In this interactive session, participants create kinesthetically, auditorially and graphically.

Participants will:

• Learn to suspend judgment and let go of assumptions.
• Increase ability to listen with an open mind.
• Explore the unknown and discover new insights.

The Fabulous Fun Factor for Fantastic Frivolity

Arthur (Andy) VanGundy, Ph.D., VanGundy & Associates, Inc.

This fun, active session will show how certain techniques can create a climate conducive to group idea generation while also generating many unique ideas. Participants will experience many fun-enhancing props and practice using such techniques as Air Clichˇ, Brain Purge, The Shirt Off Your Back, Balloons, and the Product Improvement CheckList.

Participants will:

• Learn to apply fun idea generation techniques
• Learn how to create a climate conducive to group creativity
• Understand the differences between brainstorming and brainwriting and when to use each technique to its best advantage

Beauty and the Beast: The Beauty of Ideas that Survive

Suzanne Merritt, InSightOut

In today's business world, where only the strongest ideas survive, aesthetics can make the difference between success and failure. When it comes to increasing the quality of your creative ideas, aesthetic experience is the best teacher. To experience beauty requires us to encounter the world directly and engage our imagination, senses and intellect simultaneously. In this experiential session you will have a chance to encounter in-tension, destruction, learning to look and mastery of ideality through contradiction.

Participants will:

• Discover new sources of “inklings.”
• Develop standards and guidelines for idea development.
• Learn how to take those beginning ideas and form them into implementable breakthroughs.

Heart Intelligence: What It Is and How to Activate It

Nancy Myers, President, Seeds for Change

Heart Intelligence is the synergy of intellectual, intuitive and emotional intelligence. It's a new path to innovation, high performance, creativity and health. When used by Motorola, they experienced increased productivity, teamwork, personal empowerment, and health along with decreased tension, stress and burnout. This interactive session will show you how to use this tool to tap into another kind of intelligence for greater mental clarity, creativity, effectiveness and well-being.

Participants will:

• Recognize that the heart has its own intelligence which, when utilized, can enhance both creativity and productivity.
• Learn and practice the powerful technique, Freeze-Frame^R.
• Discuss potential applications for this process.

Playing It By Ear

Gary Muszynski, One World Music

In this experiential workshop, small groups learn to improvise original compositions in order to stimulate communication and interdependent learning skills imperative to forming high-performance, cross-functional teams.

Participants will:

• Discover improvisational techniques which stimulate collective learning and awareness.
• Stretch individual boundaries while exploring and exceeding their perceived creative potential.
• Build fellowship with colleagues in a fun, supportive and interdependent environment.

Break Your Crayons and Release Your Greater Creativity

Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., Creative Leadership Services

Challenging ourselves to draw outside the lines or color first before drawing the lines releases much of our dormant creativity. In this fun, fast-paced session, you'll learn to create and think creatively using a variety of styles to empower previously unused creative potential.

Play with a Full Deck! Use BOFF-O ^tm! to Put Your Brain on Fast Forward

Marilyn Schoeman Dow, ThinkLink^tm

In this fast, fun game session, you will learn the TF3 Style: Think Fast. Think future. Think flexible. Boff-O is a new game/tool/process that promotes teamwork and propels the players to new breakthroughs.

Participants will:

• Learn how to spark creativity and conquer problems using this exciting innovative activity.
• Learn how to use this activity in a variety of situations.
• Generate lots of ideas.