C-7 Making the Covert Overt: Strategies to Sustain the Creative Human Spirit in Futures Planning
Thursday, July 8, 2010
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.This program provides research and application of newer learning and presentation methods that futurists are encouraged to consider using to more fully engage the human spirit in their work as educators, facilitators, and consultants.
The one thing we can rely on for a sustainable future is our human spirit, including our attitude toward and behaviors regarding change.
Accessing full use of creative thinking is a requisite for futurists. Leaders in the field cultivatvisualization, fantasy, and fun; engage curiosity; and encourage the production of alternative solutions before settling in on a “right” answer. They assist clients, teams, and audiences in considering many perspectives that extend beyond the boundaries of what is known or assumed in order to provoke new questions and inspire new solutions in preparation of tomorrow’s opportunities. They encourage others to think, question, imagine, and synthesize new ways of thinking and behaving.
This session provides methodological sophistication beyond traditional foresight methods to unleash and profit from integrating the human spirit into futures planning experiences.
Who should attend: Creative professionals who help cultures, organizations, groups, and individuals reach higher levels of fulfillment and productivity through imaginative and productive applications of knowledge. Individuals who are called to service to stimulate innovation and unleash creative expression to achieve one-time or ongoing satisfaction. Professionals who are sought to stimulate, generate, capture and implement novel and relevant solutions.
What you’ll learn: Proven presentation and engagement techniques that evoke imagination to foster improved futures thinking. Strategies, tools, and tips for unleashing new pathways to knowledge, leveraging cognition research findings honoring the human spirit.
How this new knowledge can be applied: Beyond using PowerPoint and Socratic methods for sharing information, the presentation strategies can be used in any appropriate scenario when new thinking is on the agenda and full participation is desired.
Marci Segal, president, Creativityland Inc.; co-founder, World Creativity & Innovation Week; author, Creativity and Personality Type, Quick Guide for the Four Tempraments and Creativity, and Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types in Organizations; recipient of Commitment and Service, Distinguished Leader and Inspired Creativity Leader Awards, Creative Education Foundation, Toronto, Canada; her pioneering work in creativity and psychological type helps people in organizations develop and lead in “best work” innovation environments honoring human spirit before strategies, techniques, and methods are employed.
Megan Mitchell, co-chair, Masters Certification Program in Applied Innovation Management, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada; former director of Leadership Development and Innovation, Johnson & Johnson Inc.; recipient of the W.E. Upjohn Award for Innovation; helped her former organization celebrate World Creativity & Innovation in 25 countries.
$150 members/$200 nonmembers Register Now
World Future Society
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 450
Bethesda, MD 20814 U.S.A.
Tel: 301/656-8274 • Fax: 301/951-0394 • E-mail: sechard@wfs.org
