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Breaking Open the Box From Imagination to Innovation
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Breaking Open the Box
From Imagination to Innovation
Who Is THIS Guy?• LCPC, IL• 2014 ICA-ICES
Site Supervisor of the Year!• Director at 3 CMHCs• Private Practice Counselor• Adjunct Faculty• Author of Toilet Therapy:
Healing Anger• Producer of Grief is Like a
Vacuum: It Sucks!
InnovationVital for EVERY IndustryEven OURS!
Clichés Rule the World
Thinking Outside of the Box
Means WHAT?
Accomplished HOW?
In Our Industry….Exactly HOW DO WE Innovate
HelpingTeaching
ResearchingDeveloping
Paying
Inside OutThinking
Innovation
Risk Taking
ImaginationThe Power to:• See What Has Not Yet
Happened.
Innovation
Risk Taking
World Series
ImaginationThe Power to:• Create Something NOT YET
in Existence• Improve the World• Make Your Mark
Innovation
Risk Taking
Imagination• Requires FAITH IN:
• Our Skills, Abilities & Dreams
• Defies Logic• Fuels HOPE• Drives Motivation
How Do YouLeverage Imagination to Fuel Innovation?
Risk Taking• Cognitive• Behavioral Too• Greatest Barrier to Innovation
• Prison for Broken Dreams Innovation
Risk Taking
Risk Taking CAN
• Deplete FAITH• Destroy HOPE• Kill MOTIVATION• End INNOVATION
Risk Taking• Motivation in Motion • Inspiration For:
• Change• Evolution• Revolution• Something New
• Drives Innovation
Innovation Call to ActionVital For
The FieldThose We ServeOur Own Career Satisfaction
