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15th ACRE in South Africa & 4th Creativity in Education Conference at Klein Kariba Spa, Warmbad, South Africa
October 2, 2009 to October 9, 2009
Two great creativity conferences held at Klein Kariba Spa outside of Warmbad, South Africa 90 km from Pretoria.
Costa Rican Adventure at San Jose, Costa Rica
August 7, 2009 to August 15, 2009
two weeks in Costa Rica having adventures, doing workshops, retreats, planning for future ones, storytelling at a local theater....generally have a great time with friends from CR, US and South Africa.
Thanks!
Sylvie
Comment Wall (61 comments)
- At 9:26am on July 17, 2009,
ANTONIO BASAURI PUELMA said…
- DEAR creative friend Alan:
Tank you.
congratulations for extraordinary idea about creativity champions, I'm not consirer one champion, but I'm a student interesting in more, and nore understand creativity secrets forntiers...
A creative hug,
Antonio (Basauri de los Lápices) it's my nik: basauri (el Antonio de los Lápices) :"Basauri (Antonio to pencils)
- At 8:19am on July 17, 2009,
Teri O'Neill said…
- Thanks Alan,
I would be happy to. I will keep in touch!
- At 3:15am on July 17, 2009,
- hi Alan,
thank you for inviting me to you wonderful tribe. I really enjoy the format and look forward to participating in the discussions.
currently I am in Italy writing my book and will not be home until Aug 6th. I have very little internt time and will fill out the site, etc when I land back in the states.
I looks like you have been having a wonderful time doing what you love to do! I hope you are having a wonderful summer!
Caio!
Teri
- At 2:24am on July 17, 2009,
Heather France said… - Yes we will be in SA in Oct it wil be great to see you there. Neil is running a session on Sales which he ran with Patrizia Sorgiovanni in Greenwich, Bruce and Eileen went along and found it very helpful. We are trying to persuade Pat to come with us to SA but I think its been a hard year for everyone. I think we all need to be more creative in the way we sell ourselves!!
- At 4:46pm on May 26, 2009,
George Torok said… - Hi Alan,
Thanks for including me. I expect to learn much from this group.
- At 7:53am on April 12, 2009,
Ed Bernacki said… - Hi Alan
I am working on the future of my own business. I am seriously looking to move back down under. I am not enjoying living back in Canada. I am also having issues of working on my own....I would really like to work inside an organization for a while doing this type of work. I'm not sure I am cut out to work on my own. I find it hard to be satisfied with the quality of work that I can sell.
The work that I am most fascinated with is the Kirton work on cognitive diversity. I see this as one of the truly big ideas of this work … if you explore his research beyond the simple assessment tool. I believe that we fundamental manage people in our organizations ‘as if’ everyone thinks alike. If we managed people based on their style of thinking, our tools and recommendations would be so different.
The main project I am promoting is my revised 12 Challenges guide which I call “Yearly Idea Leadership Navigator Guide”. I conceived a new tool for managing ideas over a period of time. I offer a one day program on innovative thinking and planning for 12 months of ideas. http://yearlyidealeadership.dev.bayteksystems.com/
The area of study that interests is the lack of new thinking happening in how to make service organizations more innovative. I use this simple question: If manufactures invest in R&D for their new ideas / process / revenue sources, what do service organizations invest for new ideas / processes / revenue sources? In particular, my interest is developing a capacity to innovate in the public sector.
Something to think about…
- At 3:19am on April 12, 2009,
Ed Bernacki said…
- Hi Alan
Good to hear from you. I don't get engaged in many of these sites. Regarding the Sid Parnes tribute, I could make this. This sounds interesting. It is not that far for me to drive. How many people do you expect? I have never attended a CPSI event.
I did learn a big lesson after reading Applied Imagination (1953 version). I heard too many consultants talk about ‘brain storming’ without knowing the original source. I was fascinated to learn that Osborn did not mention ‘harness the brains to storm through a problem’ until page 278 of the 300 page book. The implication to me was clear. You must be trained to apply your imagination in more structured and sophisticated ways to solve problems more effectively. If that does not work, he gives you a few pages of techniques to use in pairs or small groups. I had never heard this from anyone.
However, the big eye opening insight for me was the final paragraph of the book: “We need new ideas to win wars. We need even more and better new ideas to win peace."
- At 4:34am on January 11, 2009,
Annie Coetzee said… - Hi my friend. Thank you so much for all the meaningful suggestions about sites and ways to stay connected with other creative people. You saved me lots of time. I will soon be able to tell you about the Conference in April (CapeTown, South Africa) and if I will be able to showcase. I have lots of hope and faith that we will be seeing each other more than once this year! A.
- At 6:49pm on November 25, 2008,
ChaRene said… - Don't think so?
- At 2:07pm on November 25, 2008,
Dennis Stauffer said… - I thought I'd get current and join some of the social networks I've been invited to be in, but I'm discovering there's no end to it.....
Take care.
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