Duration: 3 hours
About the workshop:
In this session we will explore and experience a variety of whole-brain creative thinking mindsets, practices, and principles for facilitating dynamic creative thinking, full-on engagement, and novel insights.
You will learn key creative facilitation principles, creative training design guidelines, and approaches to help make designing and facilitating creative process easier; how to navigate resistance; and how to troubleshoot when things don;t go as planned.
This highly experiential workshop will focus on two levels at the same time - you as a professional, authentic facilitator and you as a creative individual.
Come ready to play!
Learning Objectives
In this session, participants will:
Learn to bring out more creativity and engagement from your groups.
Explore how to bring out more of your own creativity, resiliency, and originality as a facilitator.
Gain techniques for easy troubleshooting and when something goes awry.
Learn how to navigate resistance that can happen when facilitating edge-pushing techniques.
Feel more comfortable taking creative risks and going "off script" when facilitating - thinking on your feet and being more spontaneous.
This is a 3-hour IN-PERSON workshop. It will take place starting at 9:00am EDT.
Speaker:
Michelle James, founder of The Center for Creative Emergence, is a pioneering applied creativity and applied improvisation facilitator, coach, and catalyst who has been using whole-brain creative principles and practices as the basis for her work with thousands of people - corporations, nonprofits, government agencies, and communities - for over two decades.
She performed improv for 15 years and currently performs with Virginia Playback Theater. She is an abstract painting artist, a CoreSomatics™ Master Practitioner, and author of Pattern Breaks: A Facilitator's Guide of Cultivating Creativity. She will be teaching a certification to go with the guidebook in 2025.
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