Creative Problem Solving Institute 2024

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Creative Problem Solving Institute 2024

2:00pm EDT

4 Models That Help You Evaluate Your Job, Your Life & Your Options

Have you thought, “Where did my spark go?” or “Is this all there is?” When you’re feeling crushed by the everyday pressure of things that need doing—and working in a market and an organization you know well—it’s extremely hard to step back and get a clear view of the forest. A mental model can help you see your situation differently, articulate what you need, and give clarity to issues that seem intangible. In this session, we’ll share four models that will help attendees assess their work and their options and prioritize the most effective next steps for professional satisfaction. In every session, Portia and Marnette apply adult learning techniques, including brain breaks, stretching, sketch noting and mindfulness activities. We also use facilitated attendee engagement, interactive, collaborative learning strategies, learning by doing, and focus on personalized action plans.

Presenters

Marnette Falley

Executive Coach, SunRoad Coaching & Consulting LLC

IFC certified coach Marnette Falley, MS, is a strategist and creative problem solver who helps clients identify and activate personal and organizational strengths and overcome persistent barriers. She helps leaders and teams find new paths. Marnette leverages 25 years of business... Read More →

Monday June 24, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth

2:00pm EDT

Knowing and Not Knowing - Recognizing and Dealing with Ambiguity

Most relate Ambiguity to not knowing and doubt, which can lead to becoming stuck. The reality is that we don’t choose whether ambiguity is part of a challenge or situation. It is inherent to the process of getting to a successful outcome. In this session, we will examine our view of ambiguity, learn 5 polarities to use in best-managing ambiguity, and do some practice on a real challenge.

Presenters

Anthony Billoni

Owner, APEX Leader Growth

I have an MS from Center for Applied Imagination. I use CPS/Deliberate Creativity daily in live and in my consulting practice. I have been leading, volunteering and presenting at CPSI for 20+ years.

Monday June 24, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth

4:00pm EDT

Daily Creative Habits

The feeling of making progress in work that matters to us is a crucial source of motivation and creativity. However, some days this feeling is absent, leading to frustration. Do you sometimes feel stuck, unable to focus, or lose direction despite working hard? Are you missing that creative spark or the perseverance to act on your ideas?

Learn to assess your creative energy in just 5 minutes and choose effective strategies to advance your work. You will learn a science-backed framework through play, movement, self-discovery, and experimentation. Once mastered, creative habits are for life.

This session is ideal for educators, trainers, and facilitators seeking to enrich workshop experiences and provide unique follow-ups.

Business leaders will discover a visual and effective toolkit to cultivate a team culture of connectivity, trust, and creative productivity. Everyone will find inspiration to infuse more creativity into their work. Plus, a surprise gift awaits every participant!

Presenters

Dr. Ieva Martinaityte

Founder, Creativity Lab

You are in a room with two doors. Open one door and a time monster will get you. Open the other and the sun's rays will destroy you. What do you do? I don’t like when I hit a wall. I am stuck and I am blinded by pressure and stress. I can not see a new perspective. It is so limiting... Read More →

Monday June 24, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth, Current Creativity Topics and Research

4:00pm EDT

From Stress to Strength: Your Personal Playbook to Combating Workplace Burnout and Reclaiming Your Health and Sanity

Burnout is on the rise, yet, most people don’t understand this workplace phenomenon, let alone know how to prevent it from happening in the first place. Burnout affects individuals differently but there are proven solutions that will not only enable you to thrive in the face of workplace challenges but take steps to change your work environment to improve your experience. This session will provide participants with an opportunity to understand their unique expression of stress and burnout and co-create a playbook to recover and return to a healthier workplace and more fulfilled state of being.

Presenters

Julia Coit

Research Associate, Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine

Julia is a field epidemiologist and design thinker with over ten years of experience conducting research in Latin America and the US to address complex questions in global health. Her work has included: childhood obesity initiatives, social marketing strategies for micronutrient-fortified... Read More →

Lindsey Coit

Co-Founder, capital H

Lindsey Coit is a leadership coach, facilitator, and experience designer. She has spent her career working alongside CEOs, CHROs, and CIOs leading strategic partnerships, building, and motivating high-performing teams and developing strategies to solve today’s most pressing organizational... Read More →

Monday June 24, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Business, Personal Growth

4:00pm EDT

Rabbit in a Hat: Experiments in Creative Vulnerability

What feelings, thoughts, and emotions are raised when we consider making ourselves vulnerable? Are we potentially missing out when we sidestep these vulnerability opportunities? Vulnerability is scary. We often frame it negatively with words like exposure, weakness, and threat. Why then are we drawn to vulnerability in others but dis-interested when we consider it for ourselves? Let’s approach vulnerability as a strength, push our boundaries through creative experiments, and ultimately re-shape our relationship with vulnerability. This workshop is an opportunity to explore your creative vulnerability and step into action with your own creative vulnerability experiment.

Presenters

Shay Butler

Programme Manager, Tangent Innovation, Trinity College Dublin

I am winging my way over to CPSI all the way from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. I spend my time there managing and facilitating workshops in Design Thinking, Creative Problem-Solving, and more. Keen to get creativity out in the open to play! Desperate to help un-shackle people... Read More →

Monday June 24, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth

2:00pm EDT

Daydream. Imagine. Play. Reconnect with Your Superpower

Thinking imaginatively can greatly improve our wellbeing and happiness, but paradoxically it is one of the hardest activities to practice because some personal attitudes lock our imagination into the status quo constraining it to our memory and experience as well as grounding it in the real world. This workshop will present imagination as people’s superpower and the engine of creativity by helping participants embrace who they are and empower them to believe in their ideas. Through daydreaming, experiential playful exercises, and metacognitive activities, participants will activate their imagination and be able to envision radically new possibilities and scenarios about their lives or society while also learning tools to transform those ideas into realities.

Presenters

Sheila Pontis

Professor of Practice in Design & Graduate Program Leader, Northeastern University

Sheila Pontis, PhD, is Professor of Practice in Design and Director of the Information Design and Data Visualization (IDDV) graduate programs at Northeastern University, as well as partner at the design consultancy Sense Information Design. Combining design, and metacognitive, and... Read More →

Tuesday June 25, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth

2:00pm EDT

Positive Creativity Leadership: Leveraging Appreciative Inquiry in Your Work Life

Appreciative Inquiry and Creativity are powerful approaches to Leadership that will further strengthen the results you can achieve with teams. This session shows you how to incorporate Positive Creativity Leadership, a strategic combination of AI and the Science of Creativity, in your work life. We use an interactive style to share the foundational concepts and exercises to help you master the art of reframing problems to become opportunities. If you are looking for some ways to amplify your own work or help others increase their professional impact, this reframing is an essential skill for achieving clear, actionable outcomes. Join us to begin your process of incorporating AI + Creativity into your Leadership practice.

Presenters

Kim Marie McKernan, MBA, MS

Founder, Inspired Outcomes Now LLC

Kim is an international marketing leader, facilitator, and presenter. She left a career as a marketing executive at a 3 billion company to found her business, Inspired Outcomes Now, to help organizations be more positive, creative, and strategic. Over 125 organizations and individuals have leveraged her A Nu Way™ Branding and Co-Creating the Future processes to stand apart and design their desired future. With an MBA from SUNY at Buffalo, an MS in Creative... Read More →

Terry Fulcher, BS, MS

Lead Consultant, Resource-Ful One Consulting

Terry is an experienced healthcare leader, executive coach & team facilitator. Terry utilizes Appreciative Inquiry and Creativity based research as the basis for Strategic Planning work. Terry has provided executive coaching and organizational development experiences to healthcare... Read More →

Tuesday June 25, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Business, Tools Techniques and Processes, Personal Growth

2:00pm EDT

Transcending Experiences by CX Your Life

How well are you treating the #1 client in your life = YOU? Let's switch the lens of these powerful CX (Customer Experience) tools to exponentially improve your life and professional experiences. In this dynamic workshop, Mari will apply CX (Customer Experience) Tools to improve to the experiences of your most important client: YOU.

Key Takeaways:
1. Explore the experiences you are creating for yourself at key touchpoints in your life
2. Align your experiences and life journey with your life goals
3. Reclaim your VIP spot in your life and share the joy of being YOU

Presenters

Mari Puras

Founder & Chief Insights Strategist, Insight Marketing Touch

Mari Puras is passionate about supporting individuals, businesses, and society to transcend their stories and experiences. As an entrepreneur, multicultural insights and marketing expert, life coach, speaker, and mother, she is blessed to have transcended many challenging life experiences... Read More →

Tuesday June 25, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth

4:00pm EDT

Battlefield Guide for Staying Alive (in Conversations)

In this lively session, we'll inject purpose and creativity into your conversations. Bid farewell to autopilot mode and embrace purposeful interactions. Discover innovative ways to foster personal psychological safety, express your authentic self, and navigate challenging discussions with finesse. Through interactive exercises, you'll hone these skills and transform your communication style.

Presenters

Kate Thomas

Financial Strategist, Chick-fil-A

Kate is a Strategic Accountant by profession, but an Innovator at heart. While her expertise lies in numbers, she is also a Certified Facilitator, who unleashes teams' full potential through dynamic and interactive sessions. She can also be seen commanding the stage at large events... Read More →

Tuesday June 25, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth

4:00pm EDT

The Comedy Cure: How To Turn Your Frustrations into Funnies to De-Stress Your Distress

“The Comedy Cure” is a combination stress-relief workshop and humor how-to that shines a light on the positive impact of turning our frustrations into funnies. The stressors of the world today can lead to compassion fatigue and burnout, and these kinds of stressors are no joke… but joking ABOUT them can be life-changing. Learning to create the comedy that CAUSES the laughter may just be the cure!

Presenters

Margie Cherry

Associate Director, Alumni Career Services/ Humorist, Lafayette College/ Work| Life | Joy

Margie Cherry’s multiple professional identities have included career coach, corporate outplacement counselor, illustrator, copywriter, former long-running cartoonist and (very) short-term stand-up comic. Margie presents workshops on humor, creativity, and career reinvention, and... Read More →

Tuesday June 25, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth

2:00pm EDT

Decoding Emotional Harmony: Unveiling the Cognitive Behavioral Model

This workshop is an immersive exploration of the Cognitive Behavioral Model, where we unravel the intricate connections between our thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs, and how they sculpt our emotional landscape. Through interactive exercises, role play, and discussions, discover practical strategies to navigate and enhance your emotional well-being.

Presenters

Dr. Kristy Tyson

Chief Talent Development Coach, Lifement LLC

Dr. Kristy Tyson, acclaimed author of "YOUR CALL: Critical Thinking for Decision Makers," is the Owner and Chief Talent Development Coach at Lifement LLC. With a focus on emerging leaders and organizations, Dr. Tyson delivers personalized coaching tailored to individual and group... Read More →

Wednesday June 26, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Current Creativity Topics and Research, Tools Techniques and Processes, Personal Growth

2:00pm EDT

Flightpath: Your Strategic Life Plan

Flightpath is a fun, educational 90-minute endeavor that will leave you with a strategic flight plan for navigating the coming years. We will be combining CPS with strategic business tools to explore creative options. Fire up your jets and join us to accelerate your velocity.

Presenters

David Eyman

Faculty and Innovation Director, Miami University, Oxford, OH

David Eyman believes more people should say yes to making life better through creativity. As an entrepreneur, innovation leader, and industrial designer, David Eyman brings thirty years of creative experience to his teaching at Miami University. As a catalyst, his expertise lies in... Read More →

Wednesday June 26, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Business, Personal Growth

2:00pm EDT

Great Expectations

Expectations that are clear and shared are critical for the success of a team or even a family. In this session participants will learn a process for setting clear expectations with themselves and others. Having a process that can be used in any setting is very helpful for new conversations that we wish we could have but often don’t.

Presenters

Lindsay Burr

CEO, Yarbrough Group

An engaging facilitator and Polarity ThinkingTM Master Trainer, Lindsay brings a depth of knowledge and a global perspective that supports seeing the known in a new way. Lindsay will unpack the key concepts of Polarity Thinking and change how you think about leadership and followership... Read More →

Wednesday June 26, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Tools Techniques and Processes, Personal Growth, Business

4:00pm EDT

Focusing on Failure: Using Improv to Stretch Our Confidence Skills

Most people try not to fail, but this session is about taking that belief and flipping it around. This session will help us focus on learning from failing forward (or using lessons from our experiences) by developing comfort in the concept of “failure.” We will use improv and other therapeutic methods to help our brains and bodies find focus not on avoiding failure but find comfort in it.

Presenters

Mallori DeSalle, MA, LMHC, NCC, CMHC, CHP

Therapist, Humorist, Trainer, and Oreo Sommelier, Mallori DeSalle, LLC

Mallori DeSalle is a licensed mental health counselor, motivational interviewing trainer, and certified humor professional. As a speaker and trainer, she has sparked curiosity in both the young and young-at-heart. Her passion for creating a lasting impact led her to the public health... Read More →

Wednesday June 26, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth, Tools Techniques and Processes, Arts

4:00pm EDT

My Expansive Self

Embrace the opportunity to foster and encourage intuitive, reflect engagement with yourself. By being expansive, you may be willing to open yourself up to different thoughts, ideas, and beliefs, even if just a little, and hopefully grow in the process. Bonus: you will leave with a memento of your expansive self!

Key Takeaways:

Acquire a flexible tool that allows you to consider past, present, and future experiences.
Engage in self-reflection and introspection.
Immerse yourself in multimodal opportunities to be creative.

Presenters

Jennifer Verbakel

Owner, The Art of Amateurity

Jen is a doodler, a creative dabbler, and a sewing gal! She is also a certified Kaizen Muse Creativity Coach. She believes that creativity helps people take up their own unique space, and she is working towards embodying that presence as well. She loves to chat about creative... Read More →

Wednesday June 26, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth

4:00pm EDT

Social Styles: How to Spot Creative Preference in the Wild

Collaboration is about idea exchange. When we collaborate, we express creative needs that often go unmet, which can derail how we work together. Wouldn’t it be great to understand what people think when emotions run high and conflict kicks in?

Presenters

Michael Ackerbauer

Business Transformation Consultant, IBM

see bio here: https://twitter.com/RobertDowneyJr

Wednesday June 26, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Business, Personal Growth, Tools Techniques and Processes

4:00pm EDT

The (Creative) Hero’s Journey

In the story of your life, you are the protagonist — the hero of your own story. Like all heroes of literature and history, you are on a journey. This workshop looks at how the archetypal Hero’s Journey mirrors a person’s creative journey and explores how it can be applied to your own creative journeys — whether it’s the journey of a single creative endeavor or the journey of living a creative life.

Presenters

Paul Reali

Executive Director, Charlotte Lit

Paul Reali is co-founder of Charlotte Lit, a nonprofit literary arts center in Charlotte, NC, and is a lead for its Authors Lab book-writing program. He is co-author of "Creativity Rising", which is used in introductory creativity classes at colleges worldwide. He won the 2023 Doris... Read More →

Wednesday June 26, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth

2:00pm EDT

Social Fitness and Creativity

Solo genius is a myth. Productive creativity is a social process, and social relationships are essential for our health. But who should you reach out to when you feel stuck? Do you even have time for that? What if you're an introvert? Have you ever mapped your social relationships on paper?

Participants will visualize and map their social capital and the seven roles that nurture creative confidence in various ways. This eye-opening, mindset-shifting session will enable participants to intentionally engineer their social relationships for productive creativity and well-being.

It is ideal for anyone seeking sustained high levels of productive creativity by leveraging the power of relationships more effectively. And to make this experience even more memorable, every participant will get a special gift.

Presenters

Dr. Ieva Martinaityte

Founder, Creativity Lab

You are in a room with two doors. Open one door and a time monster will get you. Open the other and the sun's rays will destroy you. What do you do? I don’t like when I hit a wall. I am stuck and I am blinded by pressure and stress. I can not see a new perspective. It is so limiting... Read More →

Thursday June 27, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Breakout Workshops

Subject Personal Growth