Workshops

March 2013

Women in Science and Engineering, Annual National Conference | Keynote March 16, 2013, University of Toronto

Language to Leverage Creativity: Prepare to Nuance Your Networking

Creativity, imagination, interpersonal skills and curiosity are some of the 21st century skills taught in schools. This session will combine all four. You will learn how to quickly tap into your creative imagination, how to respond to new ideas, and to phrase questions to invite collaboration.  Prepare to have a little fun. more…

April 2013

American Society for Quality | Conference Session April 25, 2013, Doubletree Hilton, Toronto Airport

Passport to Innovation: Inoculation against obstacles to success

Are you hesitant or reluctant about innovation? There’s a good reason for that. In this session, with your permission, you will experience the atmosphere that enables innovation to run smoothly, discuss obstacles to innovation, and be shown a process that invites all people to engage. more…

 May 2013

Creativity Expert Exchange – International Center for Studies in Creativity | Master Class May 19 – 22, 2013, Buffalo State College

Know-Thyself-Creativity for Facilitators: Archetypes, Jung and MB types

Creativity professionals help people leap beyond what is known and safely navigate toward new futures.  Facilitators design sessions, engage participants, prepare the space, and keep energy going so that each person is at his/her best and feels welcome to share new ideas and risk making new decisions.  If the facilitators are really good, no one can see them sweat; they make facilitating look easy to others.

Facilitators curate mood-setting-imagination-spurring activities, behaviours, tools, and methods. Their deftness to choreograph and improvise sessions influence how willing and able people are to share their thinking; the design informs engagement and quality of outcome. Good facilitators are aware of the dynamics of the people in the room as they experience a variety of highs, and lows throughout the session. Good facilitators are also self-aware, they know their areas of strength, curiosity, drive and also what weakens them. Using the frame of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® instrument, you’ll find new language to understand your own creative process and how it compliments others.

The Master Class provides profound insights into psychological orientations for creativity using Jungian archetypes in a structured process.
You will:

• Review what the letters of your code signify
• Relate the mental functions as described by psychologist Carl Jung to your personality code
• Associate the mental functions with archetypes
• Journey with the archetypes to get inside your creativity areas of strength
• Create a statement of your creative strengths and a list of areas for development

(If you would like to attend and have not yet had your Myers Briggs Type Indicator® Instrument results debriefed, please do so before the workshop. Marci can be contracted to do it for you upon request [email protected]) more…

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July, 2013

World Futures Conference | Master Class July 19, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois

Balancing Logic and Imagination to Foresee the Future

Marci Segal, Megan Mitchell, Tom McMillian

The human spirit revealed through story—triumph, disaster, gain, loss, pain, comfort, comedy, and tragedy, often tracing the hero’s journey—is influenced by the intelligence, beliefs, and perceptions of the times and circumstance.

Devoid of mythos, the transcendent ritual ceremony of story, logos, pure reason, can spark futures that do little to honor the power of the creative human drive. To invent desirable futures, leaders need to see things in new ways and trigger imagination to dream of new possibilities.

In this workshop, participants will learn how to use imagination to create new futures. A variety of new and different techniques will be shared so that, by the end of the day, participants will know how to link the rational with the imaginal for a holistic futures approach to use in their practice.

This course is for professionals who help cultures, organizations, groups, and individuals reach higher levels of fulfillment and productivity through imaginative and productive applications of knowledge and who want to stimulate innovation in pronounced and profound ways.  more …

 

World Futures Conference | Concurrent Session July, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois

Learning and Creativity in 2100

Marci Segal, Megan Mitchell

In this short one hour you will be led through a co-creative journey to transcend the boundaries of today’s thinking. You will imagine using your passions and talents to align with a desired future state and synchronize with others to create one living symbol, beyond ego consciousness, so as to know another way to live that is emerging, possible and potent. You can use this exercise example to inspire others to do the same. The intention is to move forward, uncover and energize new pathways for making decisions that will influence generations to come. The innate human desire to express creativity is the driving force for the future. This session will unleash yours, so that, in the year 2100, something of your desired footprint has its essence available and within reach. more…