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MINDCAM PSeptember 8-11, 2011

Toronto, Canada

Wrinkles

This Year’s Theme

Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Mindcamp Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Your Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Ongoing Programs

The Graffiti Wall: Bombin' at Mindcamp . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Labyrinth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Lights, Camera,Watch out, Michael Bay! . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Yoga and Meditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Half-Day Programs

31/2 Tools to Help You Think Better . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

The Art of Pleasure... Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Creativity In-the-Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Full Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Generative Partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

How Many Bananas DoYou Have? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

ImageStreaming For Newbies And Near-Geniuses . .10

Look Again (Again) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Mindfully Mediocre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

The Mountain 10 Xperience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

90-Minute Programs

Art Making byWrinkly People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

The Big Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Charm School for Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Come Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Creative Excel? Count on it! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Creativity X-Press: Key Principles, Process & Tools . . .11

Difficult People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

FourSight Creativity Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Future Perfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

The Haha Moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

How the Hell Did I Get Here?!What Do I Really Want? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Innovation Assessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Integrative Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Intercultural Creative Engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Journaling and Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Laughter Yoga to Release Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Mindfulness Meditation Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

On the Ropes & Off theWall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Polarity Management™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Reincarnation... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Rhythmic By Nature: Let's Drum! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Salon by the Campfire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

The Shark Tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Sixteen Guidelines for Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

So, How’s ThatWorking for Me? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Stop converging like a sissy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Stories and Storytelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Surfing the Abyss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Take a Hike! Mindcamp NatureWalk . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

They Call Me Eccentric (...And I Love It!) . . . . . . . . . .16

Wordpress Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

AWrinkle in Time... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Yes...And: Improv 101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Your Native Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Program Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Other Creativity Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Program Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Mindcamp General Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

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Mindcamp is nine years old.Which is one of the reasons for this year’s theme:Wrinkles.As any event organizer knows, conference years are kind of like dog years, so by that stan-dard we're in our 60s.

What started out nine years ago as a way for a bunch of creativity practitioners to gettogether and share what they'd been doing over the past year has evolved into a full-fledged con-ference. And this year we have more attendees than ever. So all! We've tried to put together amix of programs that offers something for everyone.

We also have a new kid on the block. Our PPeecchhaa KKuucchhaa nniigghhttss of the past two yearswere so successful that we've decided to change them (after all this is Mindcamp!). Thisyear we're introducing something completely new. We're calling it KKaarraa KKuucchhaa nniigghhtt, ablend of improv and karaoke-esque presentations that should be a hoot. We have about adozen intrepid Kara Kucha volunteers who'll try to present their material using visualsthey've never seen before. Come and watch the fireworks.

But not everything is changing. We'll have campfires and kids programs and drumming andLabyrinth and dancing. Our aim is to wear you out.

Oh, and there's another new feature this year, a special video documentary about Mindcamp itself.And one you can participate in. You can try your hand at directing, shooting, editing, or being astar! You'll learn more about our video program on opening night.

So as usual, you’re in for a full weekend! Let’s hope the weather and the aurora borealiscooperate. Before the weekend begins, however, we’d like you to know about some peoplewithout whom Mindcamp wouldn’t be:

OOuurr pprrooggrraamm pprreesseenntteerrss. They are among the best creativity leaders in the world. Everyone of them is a volunteer. Not only do they share their knowledge and experience, butthey also help finance Mindcamp by paying for their own transportation and lodging. We thankall our presenters for their generosity.

Special thanks also to volunteers Branwen Hurson, Caroline Birks, John Lewis, Lisa Karlin, Sid Marquez,David During, Natasha Fernandez, Brendan Schulz, and Adrian Schiller... and anyone we’ve forgotten! Wealso thank the YMCA of Metro Toronto, who offer us the best rates for beautiful Cedar Glen.Thanks also to ThinkX Intellectual Capital Inc., for providing the design, website, office supplies, andhours and hours (and hours) of volunteer time.

Finally, and most importantly, thank YYOOUU!! You not only make Mindcamp possible, but also helpfurther the work of Facilitators Without Borders (FWB), our not-for-profit that works withcommunities to provoke new and more productive ways of thinking.

Think of this year's Mindcamp as your chance to put a wrinkle in the normal approach you mighttake to a conference. If you see a session that's totally out of your interest area, take it! And see what happens. Wewish you a wonderful, inspiring, creative, and exhausting weekend!

Your friendly Mindcamp team,

Kristen Peterson, John Sedgwick, Franca Leeson, and Tim Hurson

Welcome to Mindcamp 2011!

Facilitators Without BordersBringing people to solutions, not solutions to people •

www.fwb.ca

FWB is a catalyst to help people explore and discover their ownsolutions to enrich their communities. Our services include:

• Facilitation expertise to foster creative thinking and collabora-tive problem solving.

• Group problem solving tools to &nd the best solutions to issues.• Training in e%ective thinking processes and group methods.• Coaching for community leaders to develop their own facilita-

tion skills.

We believe creative solutions can be found for even the most com-plex problems. The best solutions are those that emanate from thepeople responsible for solving them.

For more information email [email protected] or visit our website at:

www.fwb.ca

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Adrian Schiller Vaughan, ONAlan Black Atlanta, GAAlanna Lloyd Toronto, ONAlison Cohen Toronto, ONAlison Meltzer Toronto, ONAllie Middleton Albany, NYAna Matic Toronto, ONAnn Bracken Columbia, MDAnnette Schiller Vaughan, ONAnthony Hyatt Bethesda, MDAnthony Puccio Buffalo, NYBarb Wilk-Ridge Ancaster, ONBen Anderson Toronto, ONBeth Belshaw Burlington, ONBeth Rachlis Toronto, ONBeth Slazak Cowlesville, NYBill Sturner East Aurora, NYBonnie McKee Lewiston, NYBranwen Hurson Toronto, ONBrenda Fraser Orangeville, ONBrendan Schulz Toronto, ONBruce Baum Buffalo, NYBruce Rosove Ottawa, ONCam Howey Hamilton, ONCaroline Birks Toronto, ONCaroline Chong Toronto, ONCate Walker Hammond Dundas, ONCathyann White Toronto, ONCharlotte Bigonesse Ottawa, ONChris Bowman Toronto, ONClare Dus Chatham, NJColleen Reitzel Toronto, ONDan Bigonesse Ottawa, ONDan London Ladner, BCDavid During Toronto, ONDerek Seabury Somerville, MAEike Dreyer Toronto, ONEileen Doyle Lexington, MAErin Smith Toronto, ONFranca Leeson Toronto, ONFrank Smith Mount Albert, ONGabriel Puccio Buffalo, NYGerard Puccio Buffalo, NY

Gerry Bissett Waterloo, ONGilles Boulanger Quebec, QCGinny Santos Toronto, ONGoran Matic Toronto, ONGrace Loney Hamilton, ONHana Mamnoon Buffalo, NYHarry Vardis Atlanta, GAHassan Masum Oakville, ONIan Rosenfeldt Toronto, OnIman Mamnoon Buffalo, NYIsmet Mamnoon Buffalo, NYJanet Rouss Toronto, ONJanine Gliener Toronto, ONJayson Aquilanti Orange County, CAJean-Louis Dube Ottawa, ONJennifer Spear Toronto, ONJerome Bertrand Toronto, ONJim Ridge Ancaster, ONJoe Miguez Cliffside Park, NJJohn Lewis Toronto, ONJohn Sedgwick St. Catharines, ONJonathan Brown Montreal, QCJulia Roberts Glen Ridge, NJKathleen Bissett Waterloo, ONKim Cochrane Markham, ONKim Finkelstein Toronto, ONKirk Mousley Lansdale, PAKristen Peterson Cape Cod, MAKristina Osterman Aurora, ONLaila Ghattas Toronto, ONLeslie Seabury Boston, MALily Yeh Toronto, ONLinda Salna Toronto, ONLisa Baxter Halifax, UKLisa Karlin Leverett, MALisa Shumway Houston, TXLiz Monroe-Cook Oak Park, ILLynn Himmelmann Toronto, ONLynne Logan Pittsburgh, PAManon Dostie Granby, QCManon Duclos Bromont, QCMarc Hurwitz Toronto, ONMarguerite Battaglia Buffalo, NY

Mindcamp ParticipantsWho are we?

Maria Cardozo Toronto, ONMario Allende Toronto, ONMary Arroyave St. Catharines, ONMatteo Catullo Milan, ItalyMax Brett Toronto, ONMax Schiller Vaughan, ONMaxx Kochar Toronto, ONMeg Salter Toronto, ONMegan Mitchell Toronto, ONMehdi Zobeiry Toronto, ONMichel Neray Toronto, ONNadine Janzen Welland, ONNancy Hoelzl Orchard Park, NYNatasha Fernandez Toronto, ONNewell Eaton Albany, NYNorm Bakos Buffalo, NYPearl Agustin Toronto, ONPeter Austin Toronto, ONPeter Bouffard Toronto, ONRenee PaserPaull Medina, NYRich Rosen Pittsburgh, PARobert Pearce Halton Hills, ONRoxanne Pearce Halton Hills, ONSam Hurwitz Toronto, ONSamantha Carlo Toronto, ONSandra Hantziagelis Toronto, ONSandra Nordby Toronto, ONSarah Beldick Toronto, ONSharon Babineau Hamilton, ONSharon Fisher Orlando, FLSid Marquez Paris, FranceSlobodan Stojanovic Toronto, ONSteven Hughes Toronto, ONSteven Shama Boston, MASusan Robertson Orlando, FLTanya Gerber Toronto, ONTara Bissett Dorval, QCTerri Segal Toronto, ONTim Hurson Toronto, ONTobi McGrory Toronto, ONTom Beakbane Aurora, ONTracy Brenner Toronto, ONTricia Garwood Orlando, FL

Tzabia Siegel Toronto, ONValeria Blumenkranz Vaughan, ONVeta Allen Pasadena, CAVikram Swaminadhan Quebec, QCWin Wenger Gaithersburg, MDYvonne Cohen Toronto, ONZaid Murakami Toronto, ON

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Your Schedule

Thursday, September 9

3:00pmRegistration - Main Building

Free Time - Explore!

Labyrinth Construction

4:00pm Presenter Orientation

5:00pm Plenary Session: Participant ExplOrientation

6:00pm Dinner - Dining Hall

7:15pm Welcome Session

8:00pm Session:

9:30pm Pub - Campfire - Relax! Labyrinth Opening

Friday, September 10

7:00am Yoga - Lawson Room

7:30am Breakfast - Dining Room (7:30-8:30) Meditation (until 8:00) - Lawson Room

8:30am Creative Jolt! and Half-Day Pitches

9:15am Half-Day Session:

12:30pm Lunch - Dining Hall

2:30pm Session:

4:00pm Break

4:30pm Session:

6:15pm Mindfulness Meditation - Lawson Room


8:30pm Evening Program:

…later… Pub - Campfire - Play!

Make your own schedule and record your Mindcamp experience. This is an overview of the weekend’s time flow (adetailed daily schedule is available on separate sheets at Registration). We suggest you write in the events youattend on this schedule so you can have a record of what you participated in.

Saturday, September 11




9:00am Session:

10:30am Break

11:00am Session:


2:30pm Session:

4:00pm Break

4:30pm Session:

6:15pm Mindfulness Meditation - Lawson Room


8:30pm Evening Program:

…later… Pub - Campfire - Fun!

Sunday, September 12




9:15am Half-Day Session:


1:30pm Closing Session - Dining Hall

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ProgramsOngoing Programs

The Graffiti Wall: Bombin' at MindcampSid MarquezThe drive to have fun and be inventive sparks all of us.And it's what ignited the emergence of the vast, com-plex, and global hip-hop culture. Instead of backingdown in the face of poverty and despair, kids fromManhattan to Mumbai and Brooklyn to Beijing rede-fined and conquered their own world in order to maketheir dreams a reality.

We're overjoyed to welcome back Sid Marquez as our"Graffeur-in-Residence". Sid has been demonstratingand teaching the art of graffiti at Mindcamp for severalyears: this year it's your turn. Participants can attendone or both 90-minute sessions in which a graffiti wallwill be filled with the whole camp's creativity.

LabyrinthJoe MiguezThe Labyrinth has been used by human beingsthroughout recorded history and across cultures asboth a means and a metaphor for enlightenment, cre-ativity, and self discovery. Using a labyrinth constructedaccording to both ancient and modern principles by Joeand the Mindcamp volunteer labyrinth constructioncrew (of which you may be a member), accelerate thereflective/creative process to gain clarity, direction ofaction, and implementation of intention. Be prepared tobe surprised!

Lights, Camera, Watch out, Michael Bay!Tom BeakbaneEver wanted to make a movie? Well, now you can.

Tom Beakbane will be the lead producer on a videoexploring a question about creativity and the creativeprocess. You can be a researcher, a videographer, an edi-tor, a subject expert, or just a gofer if that's what youwant in this unique session which will produce a videothat we'll be screening at the end of MIndcamp andthen uploading to YouTube.

Intense, and way fun.

Yoga and MeditationAllie MiddletonWWaakkee--uupp YYooggaa aanndd MMeeddiittaattiioonn:: Open your mind, heartand body to another new day! Allie offers hatha andraga yoga practice guidance as well as meditation eachmorning. All experience levels invited to join moderatelevel raga/hatha yoga practice, Kripalu style.

For the first half-hour, she will offer gentle stretchingand breathing practices accompanied by postures.During the second half hour, she will lead sitting medi-tation. Join us for either or both, and those who wishto do other personal practices, please come join us insadhana.

YYooggaa ffoorr ""BBllookkeess"" ((aafftteerrnnoooonnss)): Have a body that wantskind, compassionate stretching and strengthening? Noyoga pretzels please! This session is designed especiallyfor guys who have a hard time just sitting on theground. Learn the basics of this ancient practice toopen your mind & hearts too! Laughter guaranteed.Daily sessions just before supper.

Half-Day Programs

31/2 Tools to Help You Think BetterDan BigonesseIn this interactive session, Dan will introduce you tothree (and a half) of the most powerful tools in theProductive Thinking arsenal — tools designed to helpyou have more ideas, better ideas, more of the time.

These tools are robust and sophisticated enough to beused by ThinkX corporate clients to develop newproducts, create innovation strategies, and design orga-nizational change — yet simple and clear enough to beused with your kids at home.

You’ll understand your challenges with more clarity,generate ideas with more creativity, evaluate solutionswith more rigor than ever before — and you’ll walkaway from this session with more cranial firepowerthan you can imagine. Guaranteed.

The Art of Pleasure... Part 2Tzabia SiegelLast year’s Art of Pleasure was such a pleasure thatwe’re doing it again — but pleasure is never the sametwice. Whether exploring luscious eating, communal artmaking, random acts of movement, collective soundmaking, or the sweet surrender of touch, experiencingpleasure is about getting out-of-your-head and into-your-body. Come prepared to turn up and tune intoyour senses, to feel more alive and grounded.

We will play with art, dance, eating, touch, sound-mak-ing and listening, and if time allows, a brief foray intopoetry. No experience needed in any of it, but docome with your basic anatomy and an open mind.Dress comfortably for movement.

Creativity In-the-Box: Innovating through Real Constraints Newell Eaton, Allie Middleton“We don’t have time to change this.” “We don’t havemoney for this.” “We don’t have enough staff.” “We don’thave enough influence to do anything about this.” “Ican’t……we’ll never… they always...”

Sound familiar? When we explore creativity and innova-tion, we typically learn about the importance of out-of-box thinking. We rarely explore what happens whenwe feel or sense ourselves trapped in the ‘box’.

In this session, you’ll learn about creative solutions thatindividuals and teams have developed under high pres-sure and constraining situations. You will have an oppor-tunity to explore a challenging situation you or a col-league are currently experiencing. We will be introduc-ing mental challenges as well as creative movementactivities.

Full Circle: A Bio-Reflective-Dance on Life'sMeaning and Mission William SturnerMove, draw, play and reflect on life’s most poignantencounters. Re-enact your emergence, then your seriesof identities, capacities and callings – all focused on clar-ifying and affirming: ‘who am I, what can I contribute,and where am I going’.

Be sure to bring a notebook. The music, crayons, stonesand other surprise materials are all on us.

Generative Partnerships: How You Can RockIt Like the Beatles and Change Everything(Including Your Business)Marc and Samantha HurwitzIn just 8 years, the Beatles – along with their producer,George Martin – released 27 studio albums, 19 compi-lations, numerous singles, and wrote songs that havesold well over a billion units worldwide! While each ofthe Beatles had individual success later on, it was theirgenerative partnership that was the backbone for thegreatest single outpouring of popular music in our time.

In this half-day session you will learn about the founda-tional principles that create generative partnerships.These cutting edge ideas, based on seven yearsresearch and development, represent a significant evo-lution in thinking about partnerships and teams – i.e.,the transition from a leader-focused mind-set to onethat embraces the critical value of both leaders and fol-lowers as equal business partners.

How Many Bananas Do You Have?Michel NerayThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People • The 5Temptations of a CEO • 6 Thinking Hats • The 22Immutable Laws of Marketing • The 10 Commandments

You've seen hundreds of examples of this 'framing'technique, but have you ever thought about how youcan take advantage of it to bring clarity and power toall your presentations, proposals and strategic discus-sions? Distilling your arguments to a manageable set ofkey points is the foundation of clearer communications,more compelling presentations and proposals, andmore productive conversations and discussions. What'smore, it's a thinking habit that everyone can learn.

This is a special version of my corporate workshop,supercharged for Mindcampers. Part theory, partimprov and 100% interactive, you'll have so much fun,you won't even realize that by the end of it, you'll havea 5-step process to help you create a logical frame-work around any subject, any time!

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ImageStreaming For Newbies And Near-GeniusesWin Wenger, Jean-Louis DubeThe process of imagestreaming draws on the deeper,subconscious powers of our mind to solve problems,increase our creativity, and enhance understanding.Most experiences are stored, not as words, but as sen-sory images. 80% of the brain is involved with handlingour richer, more immediate visual responses, and it isyour ability to receive and interpret these that providesthe best available, ingenious, most creative responses!

These are the flashes of insight, inspirations, and suddenintuitive hunches that have been most of the greatestdiscoveries in history. So now it is available to you atMindcamp as a "newbie", or perhaps again as arefresher/practice for your brilliance. In this session youwill experience the power of calling on your inner selfto weigh, sort, and relate to — seemingly instantly —whatever is going on around you.

Look Again (Again): How to see what's really thereMatteo Catullo, Tim Hurson, Franca LeesonBack by popular demand, Matteo, Franca, and Tim arepresenting a new suite of tools and exercises designedto give you a chance to see your world and yourself asyou've never seen them before.

Feedback from last year's session and the three-dayLook Again program delivered at CREA was so positivethat we've decided to offer this revised and updatededition. Once again, Look Again (Again) promises to bea moving and motivating experience that will help youexplore your perceptions and sharpen your insights. Youare guaranteed to come away with new ways of seeing,hearing, feeling — and savouring — the world aroundyou. This session will not simply open your eyes. It willgive you new ones.

Mindfully Mediocre: Celebrating the power of Mediocrity andMindfulness in the quest for changeTara Bissett, Kim CochraneThe survival of the human race is sometimes looked atas survival of the fittest — the most skilled hunter andprotector, the smartest, the sharpest eye. But it's alsobeen shown that genetic procreation has another keyto its success: MMEEDDIIOOCCRRIITTYY

It's sometimes wiser to settle in the mean and find thepath of least resistance in the quest for survival (andprocreation!), than to seek and strive for absoluteexcellence and perfection. Often we embrace and cele-brate Excellence as it relates to change and creativity.But in striving for excellence, are we missing goldenopportunities for mediocrity?

What can we learn from mediocrity, and how can wetap into its power toward effecting change and strivingfor excellence in our personal and professional lives?This interactive workshop dives into the alchemy andmagic of mediocrity and mindfulness as key ingredientstoward bringing about lasting change, and the creativeand personal insights contained therein.

The Mountain 10 Xperience: An EmergentTechnology for the 21st CenturyJoe MiguezBased on the work of Robert Fritz, Harrison Owen,Don Beck, Otto Sharmer, and Byron Katie, among oth-ers, Joe's revolutionary Mountain 10 Xperience is acrayon and paper-based journey to the discovery ofyour deepest self. Mountain Ten is not a tool for solvingproblems, but rather for defining them so clearly thatthe way through them becomes self-evident.

Whether you are interested in creating personal ororganizational change, Mountain 10 offers a dynamic,repeatable, system-oriented methodology for identifyingwhat’s really going on — and what’s required to changeit. If you have the courage to discover what you reallywant — and what you need to create to get there —Mountain 10 offers an entrepreneurial orientation toidentifying the conscious choices you need to make inorder to create it.

90-Minute Programs

Art Making by Wrinkly PeopleFrank Smith"Wrinkles merely show where smiles have been." Bringsome found images which cause you to smile. Getthem from magazines, newspapers or even photo-copies of personal photos (black and white copies aregreat). You'll use these with acrylic painting tools andtechniques, canvas, panels and... wrinkles, to create twomixed media paintings. You'll start with an image trans-fer process. Due to drying time between working ses-

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sions, the work will be completed in the second 90-minute session. Trust and engage your creative instincts,and enjoy.

The Big Picture: The Art of Constructive PerceptionJim RidgeThis session is all about teaching people to express anddevelop ideas effectively. With many hands-on exercisesand using big tabloid size paper we will show you pow-erful ways to externalize ideas and thoughts into visualformats both individually and in groups. You will learnfundamental concepts such as diagramming, ideasketching, constellating and story boarding.

We will also show you that simple child-like line draw-ings are actually more effective cognitively, than morerealistic looking images. They literally become visualmetaphors that our mind processes more easily thanreal images. You will practice how to share and explainideas more effectively in group settings through visualgesturing and something called the “Learning Triangle”.And finally we’ll tie all of this together into one unified“Big Picture” process called “Constructive Perception”.

Charm School for MenBruce Baum, Eileen DoyleThis session will allow participants to gain insight intowhy and how they do what they do. Males frequentlyencounter a variety challenges in relationship, occupa-tional and personal domains. This workshop willexplore some background for this as well as genderissues.

We'll explore some guidelines for interacting moreeffectively with both females and males. We'll also applythe Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (CPS)method as a format for dealing with various life issues.

Open to both men and women.

Come PlayJérôme BertrandA wrinkle in a life is a good thing! It’s a necessary tokeep us moving forward and staying positive. It canchange our perspective on a problem, get out us out ofa difficult situation, make us appreciate what we haveand bring us back to the present.

In this session you will discover how to create yourown wrinkles in everyday life through play and laughter.We will reconnect with our fun self and people aroundus (they aren’t so scary).

We live in a world were we are not allowed as adultsto play, WHY? What does play and laughter have to dowith work, family life, friends, kids? What is actually goingon in our brains, what does neuroscience say? What isgoing on in our bodies? In this session you will forgetabout the constraints of social society and learn simpleways to create play any time, anywhere, with anybody.We will make up our own play!

Creative Excel? Count on it!Cam HoweyJust about everyone with a computer probably hasExcel installed on it. But like the clock on your VCR, itjust sits there metaphorically blinking at 12 noon.Wouldn't it be great of you could actually use thispowerful tool to enhance your thinking and your abilityto communicate? You can be incredibly creative withExcel if you just know how.

In this session Cam will review 10 key tools and tricks— from filtering to pivoting to goal-seeking to solving.He'll then move into detail on the ones you're mostinterested in. You'll also get on-line resources to learnmore, find code and solutions, along with a referenceCD. By the end of this session you'll be amazed at howyou can excel at Excel! Session is limited to 12 partici-pants – bring your laptop.

Creativity X-Press: Key Principles, Process & ToolsKristen Peterson, Megan MitchellThis highly engaging workshop will jump start yourMindcamp experience, and will provide great insightsand the creative basics before you attend otherMindcamp sessions.

Everyone is creative. It’s part of the human condition.Unleash and harness your creativity and put it to workproductively with new ways of thinking and workingtogether. In this energetic interactive session you’ll thinkmore clearly, more creatively and more productively tounlock the wealth of ideas already inside you.

Who should attend: New Mindcampers or people newto the creative problem solving process.

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Difficult People: How To Deal Creatively withThem...And Look Forward to It!Steven ShamaDifficult people elicit in you an emotion that you wouldprefer not to have. How do you find creative ways withthese people so that you find peace, not war?

Realizing that it takes two people to make a "difficult"situation, you will also explore what part you play inthis and what you have to learn about yourself. You willbe asked to suggest scenarios that you would considerdifficult and we will generate many different approachesto solving these frustrating situations. A wonderfulhandout will be given out with "answers" to life's mostfrustrating interactions. The session will be filled withlaughter and guaranteed to be practical, memorable aswell as life-spirit enriching!

FourSight Creativity Styles: Gaining Foresightin Creative Thinking through FourSightGerard J. PuccioWhen faced with a problem the human being hasevolved to respond in three fundamental ways: freeze(hope the problem goes away), flee (run from yourproblem), or fight (aggressively attack the problem). Inthis session we will explore a fourth option, the use ofFourSight.

FourSight is a self-report assessment that identifies anindividual’s preferences within the Creative Process. Soare you a Clarifier, Ideator, Developer or Implementer?Or perhaps you are a combination of all four, which iscalled an Integrator? Participants in this hands-on ses-sion will complete FourSight and receive feedback ontheir creative process preferences. This information willthen be used to explore how greater foresight can beused when individually responding to a difficult situationor when working with others who have differentprocess preferences from your own.

Future Perfect: How to Experience theFuture Before You Get ThereWin WengerThrough some extraordinary en scenario methods,directly experience for yourself some likely and unlikelyfutures, a frame of reference from which to find sur-prising answers and solutions, innovations, workableinventions and even new discoveries that will be madein science.

Learn also some valuable ways to make likely predic-tions, amend anticipated outcomes, and project trends.The future is also entertaining to watch happening. "Hewho does not learn from the future...."

The Haha MomentBeth Slazak, Ismet MamnoonWhen you are being funny you are stretching your cre-ativity muscles. Humor helps generate more originalideas and raises the energy level of a group whilebreaking down barriers to team cohesiveness. Harnessthe power of play, humor, and improvisation to create asafe platform for divergent thinking and discussing top-ics that may be difficult to address.

In this workshop you will learn why humor works andyou will practice different exercises which will allow youto bring humor into your presentations and workshops.You will have a chance to add to the laugh lines (wrin-kles?), improvise, and ideate while adding new tools toyour professional skill set.

How the Hell Did I Get Here?! What Do IReally Want?Laila GhattasWhat do you want? Really want. If you’re not whereyou want to be, not in the relationship you long for, notin the work environment that satisfies you down toyour toes, it’s time to ask the question. Only by lookingat your hearts’ desire can you identify what’s not OKwith your Now, and find other options to consider orexperiment with.

Behavioural and attitudinal patterns repeat uncon-sciously, bringing us to the same old same old. Onesecret of life is to figure out what those patterns are.With your new awareness you can consider otheroptions to same old situations. If you’ve got a clue as towhat you really want things to look like, you can focuson ways to get there.

Join us for this blow-your-mind hands-on session, grab acrayon, express your self- your true self — and find outwhat you really want.


Innovation Assessor: Stepping into your discomfort zoneHarry VardisInnovation is the spark of any forward-looking organiza-tion, small or large. If you want to develop smart, peo-ple-driven strategies for speeding time to market,strengthening brand position and growing market share,then come to this interactive workshop. It will featurethe 10 determining key factors of innovation and howto use them to your advantage.

This is a study conducted in collaboration with BusinessWeek magazine among 513 companies and that wasthe genesis of the instrument. Now, three years laterwe have given it to 22 companies and you can see howthey have discovered their innovation potential. HarryVardis will share his experiences in driving innovationforward — experiences that you can use in yourorganization today and for years to come.

Integrative Leadership: How Theory U Changes Everything YouThought You Knew About LeadershipAllie MiddletonIn the language of Theory U, Otto Scharmer’s revolu-tionary approach to leadership, the practices of Sensing,Presencing and Realizing in the moment can help us letgo of habitual ways of thinking, feeling and reacting. Wecan shift the structure of our attention, the internalplace from which we respond and act. Connectingsimultaneously to our inner self and to the greater col-lective creates a very different quality of experience, ofcommunication, and of relationship. It fosters an entirelynew, and ultimately more effective, way of leading.

Allie will introduce you to practices that can help youlearn from both your individual and collective Presence.These practices encourage a more integrated body-mind awareness, which can offer new insights and cre-ative energy to organizations and teams. Once mas-tered, these skills can enhance creativity and transformindividuals, teams and organizations.

Intercultural Creative Engagement: CreativeEngagement Across Cultural BoundariesAnthony HyattEngagement is at the heart of any facilitated creativeprocess. It may be the goal in and of itself or it may bedirected to serve other goals of the person(s) who arebeing facilitated. The facilitator needs to have a leader-ship role when stimulating participant involvement anda support role when the participants are doing theircreative activity. This balance offers even greater chal-lenges when the relationships cross cultural and linguis-tic boundaries. How can a person be an effective facili-tator or collaborator in such intercultural situations?

This session will, through participatory activity and dis-cussion, examine the underlying issues which influencethe effectiveness of the communication which is essen-tial to collaborative creativity. The goal will to be under-stand the skills necessary to overcome problems and toreplace them with joyous relationships which yield thedesired results from the facilitation.

Journaling and Poetry: When you reach theedge, grab your journal and jump!Ann BrackenYou’ve done your best to avoid returning to this spot,yet here you are again at the edge of a cliff engulfed bydense fog. You are on the pathless path. You want toturn around and head back to a place of warmth andsecurity. But the path has disappeared, rendering thatoption impossible.

What do you possess that no one can take from you?Your ability to write, reflect, and imagine. In this work-shop you will use the wisdom of poets who have trav-elled the pathless path. This experiential workshop willtake you on a metaphorical journey where you willapply creative journaling techniques for your encoun-ters with the red of risk, the gray of confusion, and thelight of success.

Laughter Yoga to Release StressSteven Hughes, Lynn HimmelmannLaughter and its associated benefits need not comefrom jokes or comedy. If you consider Laughter Yoga, anemerging practice in which participants laugh for noreason, it becomes apparent that a series of simple andfun exercises in a group setting can trigger giggles thatquickly turn into real and contagious laughter.

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Interestingly, we benefit from both “fake” and “genuine”laughter – the body does not know the difference. Andwhen we laugh, we are afforded an opportunity to getout of our heads and connect with our heart felt joy inour bodies.

In this session you will be introduced to the origins ofLaughter Yoga, and learn the rationale and scientificresearch behind it. Plus, of course, you'll laugh!

Mindfulness Meditation PracticesMarguerite BattagliaIn this session you will experience Mindfulness Practicesin the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, a VietnameseBuddhist monk. To be mindful means to be aware, with-out judgment or evaluation of what is happening in thepresent moment. It is a way of quieting the thinkingmind so as to be present to what is happening in yourbody through your senses.

As simple as it sounds to just be in the presentmoment, the challenges of doing so are many. The sto-ries we tell ourselves are distractions that keep us from“Being” and propel us into “Doing”.

Participants will have an opportunity to quiet the think-ing mind through the practice of mindful listening, walk-ing and eating. According to Thich Nhat Hanh, “to lookdeeply is to use mindfulness to light up the recesses ofour mind or to look into the heart of things in order tosee their true nature. By looking deeply, we gain insightand wisdom.

On the Ropes & Off the WallYMCA StaffOOnn tthhee RRooppeess:: Cedar Glen includes both high and lowropes challenge courses, led by qualified, skilled YMCAleadership staff. These ropes courses are a powerfullearning tool for both personal and team development.If you're looking for a way to get the knots out,Mindcamp's "On the Ropes" challenges, offered duringthree of our scheduled learning periods, might give youjust the lift you need.

OOffff tthhee WWaallll:: Take out your compass. Clamp on thecarabiners. Belay that order (or your partner). If you'veever wanted to try your hand and feet at rock climbing,this is your chance. Led by qualified, skilled, and safety-

trained YMCA leadership staff, Cedar Glen's ClimbingWall may be just the thing to unlink your kinks. Take abreak (well, not literally). You'll love it.

Polarity Management™: Complexity andCreativityLiz Monroe-CookHow do we address the persistent, seemingly unsolv-able problems in our lives and work? We experienceongoing tension or conflict often, speak about the com-plexity of such problems and think of creativity as anecessary skill for solving such problems. But spendingour creative energy focusing on one side of a problemor tension may lead to solutions that do not last oreven create more problems.

Polarity Management™ is an approach developed byBarry Johnson that encourages us to recognize howthose unsolvable problems may in fact be due to inter-dependent factors that require "both-and" thinking andplanning. Accelerate your ability to create successful andsustainable answers with creative thinking by using thissystems-thinking approach. Framing situations in termsof their polarities or paradoxes (e.g., head and heart,activity and rest, logic and feeling) will allow you toenvision new possibilities, incorporate diverse ideas andplan for action in enhanced ways!

Reincarnation: What if your life was exactlythe same, except...Brendan SchulzCome walk a mile in another version of your ownshoes. Your life has been filled with successes and disap-pointments. But how have the salient moments of yourlife been shaped by your various identity groups: yourgender, race, sexual orientation, ability, etc.? Ever consid-ered (I mean REALLY considered) what life would havebeen like if...

In this fully interactive session, take the opportunity tolook deep into your life’s successes and disappoint-ments and gain awareness around the personal impactof your own diversity. Then go deeper and begin tounderstand the experience and truths of others.

Rhythmic By Nature: Let's Drum!Terri SegalDrumming has been used for centuries as a means ofcommunication, gathering community in celebration, inrites of passage, healing, ritual and for entertainment.This interactive Drumming Workshop will harness eachperson’s creativity and individuality in a safe, supportive,and encouraging environment. Participants will be intro-duced to West African Hand Drums (Djembe), WorldPercussion Instruments, gaining a deeper understandingof the integral role that drumming plays in traditionalcommunities around the world and how it applies togroup members today.

Learn hand drumming technique, a West Africanensemble rhythm, engage in cooperative and leadershipbuilding rhythm based activities through movement,voice and music. No previous musical experience isnecessary to participate.

Salon by the Campfire: Rediscovering theLost Art of Creative ConversationAllie Middleton, Newell Eaton

A hands-on, heads-up exploration David Bohm’s pio-neering work on 'dialogue' and 'open space.' Sittingaround a campfire, you will experience the opportunityto truly listen and to truly be heard.

If you’ve been frustrated by the limitations and distor-tions of conventional group formats, the Salon processwill amaze and galvanize you. Newell and Allie, bothexperienced Salon facilitators, will guide you throughthe techniques of authentic communication. The Saloncan be used as a unique, divergent tool to generateideas. It can serve as a useful beginning and/or endingto structured group processes. And, as you will discover,in its own right, Salon is a powerful way to explorewho we are as individuals and how we are as groups.

The Shark Tank: A Disney Imagineer'sApproach to Disruptive ThinkingJay AquilantiNo idea is too big or outrageous in this fun and fast-paced business competition! Along with a panel ofjudges, your mission (if you choose accept it) is toinvent an entirely new type of Consumer experiencethat will rival Walt Disney Parks and Resorts in years tocome!

This 90-minute session will focus on disruptive thinkinga deliberate process to support transformative ideaswhere minutes count and key choices can 'save youfrom the sharks.'

Groups will follow a cadence of divergent and conver-gent thinking accompanied with a variety of tools exe-cuted in 'real-world' business setting.

Sixteen Guidelines for LifeSharon BabineauThe 16 Guidelines for Life offer a simple and practicaltool for achieving a happy and meaningful life. They arenot just words: they are an inspirational framework thatyou can use to live in a way that benefits yourself andothers. Whether your greatest challenges exist athome, in the work place, in your community or theworld beyond, the 16G provide the opportunity todeeply examine the nature of thought, action, intercon-nectivity and the creation of meaning in your life.

The Guidelines run in a continuous circle from‘Humility’ round to ‘Courage’, and are underpinned byfour philosophical themes: How we think, how we act,how we relate, how we find meaning.

This session introduces the guidelines with mindfulnessexercises, group discussions, and experiential explo-ration.

So, How’s That Working for Me? Building your own personal feedback loopJohn Sedgwick

Feedback is critical to any healthy system. We need itto survive, grow, learn, change and generally to be of‘sound in mind and body’. Most of the time we think offeedback as something that only comes to us from out-side... from others or from the environment. Can youimagine designing a set of techniques that will allow youto setup and provide your own, internal feedback loop?

This session will start with a review of what feedbackis, how it works, (or not) and a reminder of the toolsand probes we use when giving feedback to others.Then we will shift the focus and together build theguidelines for giving feedback to oneself. If we can,“holdthe mirror” for others surely, we should be able to dothe same on our own behaviour. You may leave this ses-sion talking to yourself, but it might be exactly the typeof conversation you need.

Stop converging like a sissy! And startconverging like a cowboy!Marc Hurwitz, Tim HursonHow many times has this happened: you use yourideating knowledge and facilitation genius with a groupto get their wildest, craziest, most fun, game-changingideas onto the table. It took half a day but the group ispumped and even the lights are buzzing with excite-ment!

And then the group converges.

There are all these wonderful ideas, but it's the sameold pig of an idea that gets converged upon. In otherwords, after hours of building excitement, the groupturned into sissies! They didn't try to tame the wild andcrazy ideas but, rather, they ignored them and endedup going, well, nowhere at all.

So how can you get the breakthrough ideas onto thetable at the end? How can you converge to some-where new instead of somewhere old? Come and testdrive the brand new tools: ‘The Tower of Terror’ and‘Converbing’.

Stories and Storytelling: Tools of CreativeThinking and Problem SolvingRobert Alan Black"Once upon a time..." "Far, far away..." "Last year, when..."

Stories begin in many ways and share with us memo-ries, impressions, feelings, facts and truths when we tellthem, create them or listen to them.

All of life from day to day, whether at work, in school,at home or anywhere else we go in our lives at homeor around the world everything is a story with or with-out facts. We can understand them. We can studythem. We can create, write or tell them. We canchange them.

Through the understanding of the stories in our liveswe can better understand our lives, better create suc-cessful solutions, and better communicate what is inour minds, hearts and souls.

During this session participants will hear, see, tell, createstories in various forms.

Surfing the AbyssHassan MasumResource depletion, climate change, pandemics, robotsrun amok...there are many ways civilization could gomassively wrong. How would you save the world, in anunusual way?

We will share thoughts on everything from tested tech-niques that need scaling up to out-there ideas thatjust...might...work.

In the second half, we will break into groups each tack-ling one face of the abyss, and end with a showcase ofunconventional ways to save the world. Be part of thesolution through creative responses to existentialthreats!

Take a Hike! Mindcamp Nature WalkYMCA StaffIf you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angelswhisper to you when you go for a walk. — RaymondInmon

Take a walk over Mindcamp's 263 beautiful wildernessacres with a YMCA staff guide who can tell you some-thing of the area's ecology, biology, geology, and anyother ology that might tickle your curiosity. There aremiles of hiking trails through forests, meadows, acrossand around creeks, streams, and ponds.

Fresh air, open space, new sights, sounds, and smells,and most of all the gentle stimulation of walking willwork magic on your creative juices.

They Call Me Eccentric (...And I Love It!)Vikram SwaminadhanEccentricity is contrasted with “normal” behaviour, thenearly universal means by which individuals in societysolve problems and pursue certain priorities in every-day life.

English thinker John Stuart Mill wrote that "the amountof eccentricity in a society has generally been propor-tional to the amount of genius, mental vigour andmoral courage which it contained", and mourned a lackof eccentricity as "the chief danger of the time".

Multiply your eccentricity coefficient in this 90 minutesession. Learn how to combine ideas, link unrelatedobjects with ease and give birth to unique, inspiredproducts and inventions by applying the FUTCEE to


everyday objects. The FUTCEE is a radical ideationtechnique and mnemonic for the 6 essential ingredientsthat go into creating an object in physical form.

Take a bite out of reality. Welcome to EccentriCity!

Wordpress Express: From Zero to Blog in 90 MinutesFranca LeesonGot something to say to the world, but the net's stilljust a big ol' black box to you? Convinced that puttingup something of your own will break the internet andresult in the end of the world as we know it?

Well, let's break it together! I, the Mindcamp Web-Witch, will take you through the steps to start yourown blog on Wordpress (the same blog engine we usefor this site). This session will be geared to beginners.Bring your own laptop loaded up with raw materials:your writing, notes, and images you like. By the end ofthe class, you will have a blog online and ready for theworld to read!

A Wrinkle in Time...Mario AllendeKeeping with Mindcamp's wrinkly theme, MarioAllende, percussionist and educator, will explore someof the rhythmic wrinkles that make music so exciting.

By using percussion instruments and Afro-Cuban drum-ming, participants will discover some universal secretsof rhythm and learn how to travel through time... musi-cal time, that is!

The musical concepts will be challenging, and therhythms will be authentic, however, no previous drum-ming experience is needed. This group setting will allowboth beginner and experienced drummer to share in aunique musical experience.

Yes...And: Improv 101Jennifer SpearEver wonder how great improvisers do it… how theyget up and magically before your eyes create a scenefrom a few suggestions from the audience…?

This session will teach the tips, tricks, tools and rules ofimprov so that anyone can participate, appreciate oreven incorporate improv into their work.

You will laugh with your colleagues as you learn theterminology, practice the skills and surprise yourself!

Improv improves your listening skills & focus, teachesyou the ability of being present and in the moment,builds confidence and allows you to practice andenhance your creative thinking. Improv promotesmeaningful & lasting collaboration and trust amongteam members, you learn to be affirmative & support-ive of others ideas to create something together youcould not have done alone.

If you are a trainer or facilitator you can incorporateimprov in your work as energizers, ice breakers and asa foundation for brainstorming, ideation & team build-ing.

Your Native PerspectivesMeg SalterHave you had the experience of being blindsided byapparently random events or working with people youcould not seem to find common ground with? Most ofus go through life unaware of just how unique our per-sonal perspective really is. Painfully, we may grow to thefact that other people have genuinely, often drasticallydifferent ways of looking at the world; different ways ofbeing, perceiving and doing.

Waking up to your unique Native Perspective will helpyou better understand how and why you interpret yourlife experience the way you do., help you to find morecompassion and connection for the diversity of peoplearound you and enhance your professional skill andcommunication.

Meg Salter will provide an overview of “NativePerspectives”, a powerful diagnostic tool used inIntegral Coaching. Through presentation, discussion androle play in this 90 minute session, you will develop anew awareness of your intentions, your relationshipsand your native comfort zone.

Program LeadersMario Allende • Toronto, ONA Wrinkle in Time...

Born in Chile and raised in Canada,Mario is best known as the driving forcebehind the Alberta based Latin-Jazzgroup, BBoommbbaa!!Today, however, he mixesthe drum kit, timbales, congas and myr-iad percussion instruments as a free-lance musician in Toronto’s vibrant musi-

cal scene. A studied yet emotional player, Mario is rest-lessly creative and performs with the spirit this musicdemands. Mario has performed across the country andabroad including performances in Canada, Colombia,Cuba, Italy, Korea, and the UK.

As an educator, Mario has taught music and Latin cul-ture workshops at schools, universities, and colleges inAlberta, Ontario, and in Cuba. Mario's creativity confer-ence career was launched when he presented, taught,and performed in CREA Conference in Sestri Levante,Italy, in 2008. Mario now lives in Toronto, [email protected]

Jay Aquilanti • Orange County CAThe Shark Tank

Jay Aquilanti works as a Director forFranchise Management at Walt DisneyImagineering, partnering with the keyCreative Portfolio teams in developinghow the core franchise brands of theWalt Disney Company (Mickey Mouse,Winnie the Pooh, Disney Princesses,Disney Fairies, Cars, Pirates of the

Caribbean) will come to life across the Disney Parksglobally over the next 5-10 years.

As an 18-year Disney veteran, Jay has worked acrossmultiple marketing and sales areas in Orlando, Toronto,Vancouver and Anaheim, and most recently served as acreative problem solving practitioner and facilitator forDisney Parks' in-house ideation and innovation team,Creative Inc where it was just plain “fun” to focus onthe discipline of creative problem solving for variouspartners.

He's a Canadian living the sunny Southern CaliforniaDream with a huge debt, a rented house (real estate istoo expensive!) three great kids and an exciting placeto work where magic is made every [email protected]

Sharon Babineau • Hamilton, ONSixteen Guidelines for Life

Sharon is a decorated, 20-year veteranof the Canadian Armed Forces. PastRegional Manager of a not-for-profit.Widow, mountain climber, hockeyplayer, and inspirational speaker.

She is a trained Facilitator inTransformative Mindfulness and the 16

Guidelines to Life and the Five Gentle Yogas. She hasfacilitated self-empowerment seminars, support groupsand workshops for over a decade, and uses her per-sonal life experiences to show audiences how to tapinto their inner strength.

She believes we all have the ability to overcome eventhe most devastating of life’s moments to live life fully.She inspires her audiences to embrace their right tohappiness and most importantly, encourages them to:SHIFT your mind, CHANGE your [email protected]

Marguerite Battaglia • Buffalo, NYMindfulness Meditation Practices

Marguerite has been a facilitator ofMindfulness Meditation in the traditionof Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh for7 years though the Peaceful HeartMindfulness Community in Buffalo, NewYork. She is a member of the BuffaloZen Dharma Community. She is amember of the Toronto Diamond

Approach which is a spiritual path based on openended inquiry that allows one to develop preciseawareness devoid of judgment.

Marguerite is a longstanding educator and is one of sixfounders of The Elmwood Village Charter Schoollocated in Buffalo, NY. She recently completed threeyears as an assistant professor of education atD’Youville College.

She has been a member of the Creative EducationFoundation for more than 30 years, received itsLeadership, Service and Commitment Award in 2000and is an Extending/PACE leader for the CreativeProblem Solving [email protected]

Bruce Baum • Buffalo NYCharm School for Men

R. Bruce Baum, a legend in his ownmind, is Professor Emeritus in theExceptional Education Department atBuffalo State College and the HeadHoncho of HumorCreativity.Com. Hereceived degrees from the University ofCincinnati, and Indiana University. Dr.Baum is author of How to Motivate

Audiences: 121 Warmups, Icebreakers and Activities forPromoting Creative Problem Solving, Teamwork andLaughter (Bates Jackson), The Almost Wet Your Pants Bookof Humor (Author House), and 20 Magic Tricks for theMagically Impaired (DVD), and the MEGA TRAINING CD.

In 2007 he received the President’s Award forExcellence in Teaching from Buffalo State College. He isa Colleague in the Creative Education Foundation, aleader in the Annual Creative Problem Solving Institute,a member of the International Brotherhood ofMagicians, a Certified Laughter Leader, a member of theAssociation for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, a fac-ulty member of Now to Wow™ Adventure andLearning Programs and a Certified Rock Balancer. Hehas consulted and facilitated with numerous companies,educational institutions, and organizations. He has pre-sented on humor, creativity and other topics inSingapore, Cyprus, Jamaica, South Africa (6 times),Costa Rica and Canada.

In his spare time, Dr. Baum is a Rocket Scientist, BroncoRider, Taxidermist, Explorer, Brain Surgeon [email protected]

Tom Beakbane • Toronto ONLights, Camera, Watch out, Michael Bay!

Twenty five years ago Tom opened acommunications agency convinced thatcomputer graphics would transformprint communications. It has. And he hasbeen part of a team that has delivered14,000 jobs that proves it.

Now he believes that a similar transfor-mation is happening with video. To take

advantage of the transformation it is necessary to redis-cover artistic fundamentals and avoid traditional mind-sets that hold us back.

He has a degree in neurophysiology and wrote a bookon consilience, which explains how science and thehumanities are coming together and the rifts we seebetween disciplines while extremely significant are atthe same time [email protected]

Jérôme Bertrand • Toronto ONCome Play

Jérôme Bertrand is a Designer, PersonalTrainer, athlete and artist.

He works with elite level athletes andclients to help them achieve their physi-cal goals as well as teaches them to letgo and play. Also he has been workingfor the last two year with people withmental health problems, creating funcreative ways to engage them in physi-

cal activities. He is constantly researching new ways toengage the brain and the body through play.

In his spare time he creates art to place in public placesaround cities he lives in and trains to race both roadbikes and trail running [email protected]

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Dan Bigonesse • Ottawa ON31/2 Tools to Help You Think Better

Dan is a Consulting Partner with ThinkXIntellectual Capital. As a trainer andfacilitator, Dan has spent the last 17years helping people expand their think-ing and discover new possibilities.

With his quick wit, probing questioningskills and productive thinking techniques

Dan helps clients engage their whole brain, and findproductive solutions to their challenges. He is knownfor delivering high content sessions in a relaxed andentertaining style. Underlying Dan’s passion for produc-tive thinking is a deep commitment to helping peoplelearn and achieve useful outcomes.

When not working, you can find Dan training to masterthe arts of jiu-jitsu, cooking and loving on his kids (who,by the way, get annoyed with this!)[email protected]

Tara Bissett • Dorval QCMindfully Mediocre

Tara Bissett is a creative thinking andchange leadership trainer and facilitator.She trains and facilitates CreativeThinking and Change initiatives in a vari-ety of organizations, specializing in theCreative Problem solving andKeyChange processes.

With a strong fine arts background, Tara began hercareer as an artist and instructor, launching an art stu-dio, founding and co-directing a Montreal-based artists’association and exhibition space, and performing in andco-producing amateur and semi-professional musicaland theatre productions (See her get witchy in Into theWoods with MMuussiicc TThheeaattrree MMoonnttrreeaall this October)!

Over the past 10 years, Tara has consulted and facili-tated in a variety of domains, from working withCanadian National Standards and educational partner-ship projects, to working with youth and communityorganizations, to presenting at a number of conferencesand institutes. Tara holds an MSc in creativity andchange leadership from SUNY Buffalo, along with aBFA and MA in art education from Concordia. [email protected]

Robert Alan Black • Athens GAStories and Storytelling

In 1964 Alan began working 7 days aweek as a television news writer andweekend editor for WXYZ-TV inDetroit while he was enrolled in archi-tectural school. In a few years aftergraduating he became an nationally

licensed architect, then over the next decade workedas an interior designer, graphics and signage designer,freelance advertising creative director, cartoonist, writerand university professor of design before he began his35 years in Creativity Development.

Since his first CPSI in 1978 he has been collecting, cre-ating and teaching Creative Thinking Systems,Tools/Techniques, Approaches/Attitudes, Methods,Processes and Strategies with clients and during creativ-ity conferences around the globe and through his vari-ous [email protected]

Ann Bracken • Columbia MDJournaling and Poetry

Ann Bracken is an educator, an expres-sive arts coach, a program developer,and the owner of her own business, ThePossibility Project. In addition, she holdscertification in poetry therapy, journalfacilitation, drama in education, and spe-cial education. For more than thirty

years she has worked in education, linguistics, writing,and small business development. Ann has developednumerous poetry and creative writing programs for awide variety of populations and loves helping othersfind joy in using the expressive arts.

Ann moves people forward into more successful,dynamic levels of productivity, problem-solving, and cre-ativity-whether her clients are executives at the WorldBank, staff at the University of Maryland, struggling stu-dents. Ann’s philosophy is simple: untapped potential isuntapped wealth. Ann can show you how the ability tounleash that wealth in oneself and others is founda-tional for personal and professional [email protected]


Matteo Catullo • Milan, ItalyLook Again (Again)

King of Elves, marketing consultant, the-ater actor, mathematician, poet, starhunter, Matteo is a Partner of Catullo &Sylwan Advertising Agency, Milan, Italy.He is President and co-founder ofCreativity European Association(CREA), program leader at CPSI(Creative Problem Solving Institute) anda former Trustee of the Creative

Education Foundation.

Matteo is internationally acclaimed for his work in stim-ulating creative imagination and creative potential. Moreimportant, he is father of Gaia and Davide and friend ofall creative people. Matteo holds the Italian absoluterecord and award for the most handshakes and [email protected]

Kim Cochrane • Markham ONMindfully Mediocre

Kim works as an organizational develop-ment consultant, coach and psychother-apist, specializing in working with teamsduring change and developing cus-tomized change management programsfor organizations.

Over the past 10 years, Kim has con-sulted for a variety of organizations; coaching, trainingand consulting during change efforts. She works in pri-vate practice as a psychotherapist and teaches yogaand pilates sessions. Kim is completing an M.A. inLeadership at Royal Roads University, has an AdultEducation certificate from the Ontario Institute forStudies in Education and B.A. in psychology/sociologyfrom York University and a B.A.A. in journalism fromRyerson University.

She is passionate about cycling, pilates, running, learning,and travel, has a soft spot for her dog and a joyfulapproach to living and she loves to see things in sys-tems — everything is a circle, not a straight [email protected]

Eileen Doyle • Lexington MACharm School for Men

Eileen Doyle, president of DeeperDives, provides highly interactive facilita-tion and market research. Eileen hasfacilitated diverse projects such asideation sessions, team building, marketresearch, TV casting, and naming studies.

She applies techniques that access rightbrain and left brain, creating an atmosphere where par-ticipants use all learning styles: visual, auditory andkinesthetic. These include creative problem solving, pro-jective techniques, archetypes, leadership/communica-tion preferences and laughter. She partners with clientsto clarify goals and facilitate their progress to actionableresults.

Eileen is a leader in the field of creativity, presentingengaging workshops at conferences in the U.S., Canada,Italy and South Africa. She is a Colleague with theCreative Education Foundation and co-founder of theNew England Creativity Group. She is “certifiable” inthe MBTI®, Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator™,Foursight™, Professional Researcher, Coaching andInnovation Games®. Her favorite credentials areCertified Laughter Leader and international [email protected]

Jean-Louis Dube • Ottawa ONImageStreaming For Newbies And Near-Geniuses

Jean-Louis Dube is a wellness educatorwith certifications in several healing artsand energy psychology modalitiesincluding Hasya (Laughter) Yoga andShiatsu. For 27 years he was an educa-tor and HR Manager with the CanadianGovernment. He now conducts contin-

uing education workshops for Algonquin College andmunicipal school boards, and has completed TrainingFor Trainers at Win Wenger's ProjectRenaissance/Double Festival.

He holds a M.Ed and BAs in Commerce, Education, andPsychology. Jean-Louis believes and lives the philosophyof Wellness is [email protected]

Newell Eaton • Albany NYCreativity In-the-BoxSalon by the Campfire

Newell specializes in helping entrepre-neurial leaders and teams innovate intoday’s fast changing complex globalcommunity. Over the past decade hehas been working as an leadershipcoach and consultant for senior levelleaders in the computer gaming, bio-

tech, alternative energy, venture capital, pharmaceuticals,global HR, electronics, artificial intelligence, IT, real estateand executive search along with a wide mix of not-for-profit, philanthropic and government organizations.Having worked for over 40 years in both the privateand public sectors he sees that the need to developeffective communications transcends culture or age.

He’s certified as a master coach through the NLPCenter of NY and is currently continuing his studiesthrough the Coaching Excellence in Organizations pro-gram, the graduate level program for experiencedcoaches operated by the Institute for GenerativeLeadership. He’s been a faculty member for many uni-versity and association programs focused on leadership,creative thinking, coaching or communications. [email protected]

Laila Ghattas • Toronto ONHow the Hell Did I Get Here?! What Do I ReallyWant?

Laila Ghattas absolutely loves leadingTruly Madly Deeply Self-DiscoveryWorkshops around the world. She'spassionate about her richly texturedvocation as a Gestalt therapist, artist,writer, Reiki practitioner, group facilitatorand public speaker.

Otherwise known as The Traveling Therapist, Laila'sentrepreneurial dream come true, Aziza HealingAdventures, creates personal growth retreats in breath-takingly beautiful locations in North America and Bali.

Between journeys Laila hangs out in Toronto where shehas a private practice and enchanted [email protected]

Lynn Himmelmann • Toronto ONLaughter Yoga to Release Stress

Lynn Himmelmann, B.Sc., B.Mus., alsoknown as Lively Laughing Lynn, bringswith her more than 30 years of self-exploration and formal study in modali-ties which promote a healthy body,mind, and spirit.

In addition to her popularity as a Laughter Yoga Leader& Trainer, she is a sought-after expert in New DecisionTherapy, a powerful process for quickly unravelling &neutralizing complicated emotional burdens.

Lynn is also the creator of the well-received "You CanHeal Your Life Now" Forgiveness Workshops, and is aseasoned leader of Kirtan Chanting.

She has raised the health & happiness of thousands of'serious' seekers, using Laughter in conjunction withForgiveness.

Twice proclaimed champion of the Toronto LaughterGames, many find her laughter irresistibly [email protected]

Cam Howey • Hamilton ONCreative Excel? Count on it!

After 30 years with Stelco and U. S.Steel Canada, I’m retiring July 31 2011.I’ve been creating and presenting work-shops on topics like stress, leadership,Quick Basic, Excel and Blast Furnaces atwork and in my community.

For many years I’ve chaired corporateJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation team, last yearwe again reclaimed 1st place in our local walk andhope to achieve the same this year. Excel is a passionfor me, my team was dragged into Excel (we wereusing Quattro Pro) and we all learned it together.

Excel has tremendous tools to make life easier, quicklyanalyze data and automate repetitive tasks. My hobbiesinclude reading, canoeing, interior camping and [email protected]


Steven Hughes • Toronto, ONLaughter Yoga to Release Stress

Steven Hughes, M.Ed. is the Manager ofEducation and Training for CTI CanadianTraining Institute in Toronto.

Steven has worked in the social servicesupport system for over 25 years. As alife-long learner, Steven has interests inadult education, accelerated learning,dialogue methods, violence prevention

in organizations, Appreciative Inquiry, and practices thathelp individuals cultivate self-awareness and unlock theirfull potential.

Steven is committed to bringing positive energy toorganizations so that individuals in the workplace canflourish and make their unique and valued contributionsto the [email protected]

Tim Hurson • Toronto ONLook Again (Again)Stop converging like a sissy!

Tim is founding partner of ThinkXIntellectual Capital and has deliveredproductive thinking programs through-out the world. He has keynoted in 41countries on six continents about howto use the principles of productivethinking and creative leadership to man-

age change rather than be swamped by it.

Tim is a founding director of Mindcamp and FacilitatorsWithout Borders and serves on several other non-profit boards.

Since its release,Tim's book Think Better : An Innovator'sGuide to ProductiveThinking has consistently been one ofMcGraw Hill’s top ten business books, and is now in itsfifth printing. It is used in business and professionalschools in the US, Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico,Chile, and Brazil, and has been translated into eight lan-guages.

Tim thinks the phrase "out of the box thinking" shouldbe put back in the box and buried in a deep [email protected]

www.thinkxic.com

Marc Hurwitz • Waterloo ONGenerative PartnershipsStop converging like a sissy!

Marc is an insightful and engaging poly-math with a PhD in neuroscience andan MBA. He has many years experienceas a facilitator, coach, and trainer andco-runs a really cool, leading-edge HRconsulting firm: FliPskills.

He has attended every Mind Campsince its [email protected]

Samantha Hurwitz • Waterloo ONGenerative Partnerships

Samantha is both a professional HRleader and professional accountant. Sheis a passionate and highly regardedworkplace coach, mentor, talent devel-oper and business leader. She is adeptat developing people and building teamsthat are enthused, collaborative and

high-achieving.

She has a wealth of experience leading M&A’s, multi-million dollar projects, operational units, and strategicHR initiatives. Sam co-runs a really cool leading-edgeHR company that happens to be the same one as Marcco-runs (or at least thinks he co-runs).

Sam has attended every Mind Camp since coming toher first one with Marc a few years [email protected]

Anthony Hyatt • Washington DCIntercultural Creative Engagement

Anthony Hyatt is a violinist and multi-media performance artist from theWashington DC area whose interest isin the role and use of improvisationtechniques in the creative process. He isa teaching-artist working with manyhuman service organizations includingthe nonprofit Arts for the Aging under

whose auspices he leads creative engagement programs

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at senior centers and for whom he co-directs the sen-ior citizen improv dance company known asQuicksilver.

Anthony is a master trainer of the National Center forCreative Aging and he is an artist in residence forGeorgetown Medical Center’s pediatric and cancercare programs. Anthony is honored to be a colleagueof the USA based Creative Education Foundation and aleader for other affiliated international organizations likeCREA in Europe and Mindcamp in Canada.

He does additional creativity consulting and facilitationwork through his own organization which is calledMoving [email protected]

Franca Leeson • Toronto ONWordpress ExpressLook Again (Again)

Franca is a Colleague with ThinkXIntellectual Capital, where she uses herwide range of skills — design, writing,web mastery, and meditation mastery— to fulfill the duties of chief scullerymaid.

Franca has been studying meditationsince 1981 and teaching it since 2000. She has pre-sented facilitation, meditation and creativity sessions atMindcamp in Toronto, Canada since its inception, atCREA in Italy since 2005, and at CPSI in Atlanta in2007.

Franca’s particular interest is in helping people enrichtheir personal and creative lives by developing a medi-tation practice that extends into all areas of experience:work, children, marriage, and family responsibilities.When she’s not meditating, teaching, or saving thebacon at ThinkX, she’s playing music or staring [email protected]

Ismet Mamnoon • Buffalo NYThe Haha Moment

Ismet Mamnoon, is a full-time mom, cre-ativity junkie, student of life, writer,designer, fish-hat maker, and martialartist. She is currently enrolled andactively participating in the MS inCreative Studies program at BuffaloState College.

While Ismet has a hard time writing about herself inthird person — she would like you to know that what-ever you have heard about her to date is probablyexaggerated and the story about the @$#%*& *#$&^is completely untrue! Her daughters, Iman and Hanacan vouch for her sanity about 75% of the time andthe rest of the time they are too busy laughing to care.They are also her pride and joy.

Ismet has lived significant parts of her life in Dubai,London and Buffalo (in that order). Given the choicebetween three weather extremes — hot, British andcold — she has chosen to set up a cozy household in avery well appointed igloo in Buffalo, NY for the last [email protected]

Sid Marquez • Paris FranceThe Graffiti Wall: Bombin' at Mindcamp

Sid works as a creative assistant andresource alongside Olwen Wolfe atWorlding. He was introduced early tothe world of creativity, attending CPSI'sYouth Program when he was nine yearsold, and is now fully immersed in thecreative process in his mid-20s.

Being of Chilean, American and French descent, Sid isfluent in English, Spanish, and French, loves multi-cultur-alism and has had the pleasure of meeting many CREAand CPSI leaders from around the world. Sid is anexpert in the international Hip-Hop movement, onethat he has passionately been a part of for most of hislife.

He has facilitated workshops on Hip Hop at CREAConference in Italy as well as Mindcamp in Canadaevery year since 2007. Some of his areas of interestinclude all kinds of music, visual arts, dancing and other


forms of artistic expression, as well as topics dealingwith the inner-city and its various issues, impacts andsocial aspects.

Of course, he also has a huge love for creativity and isconstantly learning about its many tools, methods andmindsets, which he fully identifies [email protected]

Hassan Masum • Toronto ONSurfing the Abyss

Hassan composes ideas, tools, and pos-sibilities for a better world.

Hassan has worked with research labs,government agencies, non-profits, andstartups in areas including health inno-vation, foresight, collaborative technolo-

gies, network engineering, R&D policy, evolutionarycomputation, and case study research. He has writtennumerous articles and contributed to several booksincluding Worldchanging, Collective Intelligence, and GlobalHealth Ethics, and is the lead editor of the forthcomingThe Reputation Society. One of his goals is to alwayshave the right question [email protected]

Allie Middleton • Albany NYIntegrative LeadershipYoga and MeditationSalon by the Campfire

Allie Middleton is an executive coach,team learning & organization develop-ment consultant, specializing in providingleadership coaching to help teams andorganizations perform at their best. Sheis currently engaged in offering clientsholistic learning experiences to translate

individual, team and organizational challenges intoopportunities for deep growth and profound develop-ment.

With over 30 years of leadership experience, includingWall Street corporate legal services, award winningnot-for profit and government leadership training andnew initiatives, Allie has championed mentorship pro-grams to enhance team and individual performance.She designed and implemented successful earnedincome programs, received grants for new projects tofund research on best practices. Allie has served as a

facilitative coach and thought partner to many leadersand teams in all sectors in the US and presents at facili-tation and creativity conferences internationally. She hastaught both human behavior and innovative manage-ment courses at the graduate level.

Allie finished her doctoral studies in leadership, collabo-ration and organizational change and is strongly influ-enced by action research and the Theory U changeprocess. She is a certified NLP Master Coach and yogaand meditation instructor. She co-founded a communitydispute resolution center in the Hudson River Valleyand furthered her training at Harvard UniversityProgram on Negotiation.

She is a poet, art exhibit curator, and an avid explorerof the [email protected]

Joe Miguez • Cliffside Park NJThe Mountain 10 XperienceLabyrinth

Joe is known throughout the UnitedStates as the 'labyrinth man'. He hasbuilt a consulting practice based onstimulating creativity in individuals andgroups to achieve personal and organi-zational innovation. Facilitator, change

agent and labyrinth builder, Joe has worked with clientsfrom major corporations, media, college and religiousretreat centers. He has conducted workshops inCanada, Mexico, Europe and the United States. His pro-fessional commitment focuses on inspiring reflection inaction, step by step. [email protected]

Megan Mitchell • Toronto ONCreativity X-Press: Key Principles, Process & Tools

Megan is an innovation consultant,coach, facilitator and educator. Shebelieves we are all creative; her passionis to help people discover their uniquegifts and ways of contributing forgreater business success and personalfulfillment.

Megan has nearly 20 years of experience, most recentlyas Director of Innovation and Leadership Developmentat Johnson & Johnson. She’s currently designing anddelivering Applied Innovation Programs to business

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leaders as the Program Director for Applied Innovationat Schulich (York University) in addition to her otherwork.

Her personal interests and passions include creativity,traveling, languages, gardening, and creating in [email protected]

Liz Monroe-Cook • Chicago ILPolarity Management™

Liz Monroe-Cook, Ph.D., has extensiveexperience as a consulting psychologistfocusing on individual, group and organi-zational effectiveness. She uses creativethinking skills and Polarity Managementin much of her facilitation, training andcoaching work.

She serves as a leader at the Creative Problem SolvingInstitute, is a graduate of the Polarity ManagementMastery Program, and is affiliated with ThinkX intellec-tual capital and Polarity Management Associates.

She is the recipient of the Creative EducationFoundation's Distinguished Leader award, and has pre-sented at creativity and professional developmentworkshops, including CPSI, CREA, Florida CreativityWeekend as well as at Mindcamp. A rich array of worksettings and clients — academic, corporate, govern-ment and nonprofit — has given Liz many opportuni-ties to manage [email protected]

Michel Neray • Toronto ONHow Many Bananas Do You Have?

Michel combines a science degree ofUniversity of Waterloo, an MBA fromMcGill University, over 25 years ofexperience as a creative marketingcopywriter, a career as a senior salesand marketing executive of a publiclytraded company, and a lifetime of

observation of human motivation and psychology. Thisunique blend of perspectives is at the core of his abilityto help both his corporate and individual clients dis-cover and communicate their greatest value and differ-entiation.

The results extend beyond traditional measures ofhigher sales, market penetration and greater brandequity; the work that Michel does also increases theconfidence and motivation that only come from beingconsciously aware of your strengths and purpose ñboth as a business as well as an individual.

As a motivational speaker, Michel empowers his audi-ences to dig deeper than the usual marketing messagesto access a well of meaning and purpose that drivesales as much as they drive productivity, engagement,resilience and cooperation/collaboration.

He’s married with three children, two dogs, threesnowboards, a whitewater canoe and a third-degreeblack belt in [email protected]

Kristen Peterson • Cape Cod MACreativity X-Press: Key Principles, Process & Tools

Kristen is a creativity and innovationfacilitator, trainer, coach and catalyst.

She works with major corporations inNorth America providing workshops,training and facilitation to help compa-nies create and develop new products,new processes and new strategies. She

believes organizations and individuals must transform toconfront the economic and lifestyle challenges of the21st century. They must think differently — more cre-atively, more productively, more proactively.

She is a founding partner of ThinkX Intellectual CapitalInc., on the Board of Directors of Facilitators WithoutBorders, a founder of Mindcamp, a faculty member ofthe Creative Problem Solving Institute. A CampDirector by nature and nurture, at Mindcamp you'lloften see her with clip board in hand walking veryquickly organizing logistics or singing at the camp [email protected]


Gerard J. Puccio • Buffalo NYFourSight Creativity Styles

Gerard is Department Chair andProfessor at the International Centerfor Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State; aunique academic department that offersthe world’s only master of sciencedegree in creativity.

Gerard has written more than 30 arti-cles, chapters and books. He is an accomplishedspeaker and consultant; he has worked with major cor-porations and numerous school districts. He has deliv-ered creativity workshops and presentations aroundthe world, in such countries as France, England, Spain,Italy, Tanzania, Hong Kong, Singapore, the DominicanRepublic, and Canada.

Gerard holds a Ph.D. in organizational psychology fromthe University of Manchester, [email protected]/centers/creativity

Jim Ridge • Ancaster ONThe Big Picture

Jim combines over 30 years ofManufacturing Engineering problemsolving experience along with strongartistic visioning skills to help teamssolve problems through their eyes withGraphic Facilitation.

Jim is a member of the “vizthink” net-work, avid mindmapper, 6 Sigma Green Belt, JuranQuality Improvement facilitator, metal sculpture artistand graduate of Grove Consultants Graphic FacilitatorProgram. He regularly facilitates the development ofbusiness activities, problem solving and ideation sessionsusing highly interactive visual maps and frame works.Past works have included the creation of the illustra-tions for Tim Hurson’s best selling business book ThinkBetter and Ken Wall's children’s book series called TheThribletts. Jim is currently working on an extensive seriesof illustrations for a new book by Tim Hurson.

When not drawing what people are thinking Jim can befound welding metal sculptures or walking in the wood-lands where he lives with his wife [email protected]

Meg Salter • Toronto ONYour Native Perspectives

Meg Salter leads MegaSpace Consulting,a Toronto-based coaching, facilitationand organizational effectiveness practice.As an Integral Coach™, she assistsclients make and sustain progress in

professional and personal development areas that areimportant to them. Clients become more aware ofhow they approach challenging situations, learn to seenew possibilities and build sustainable new competen-cies to achieve outcomes that are deeply meaningful tothem.

She brings to her coaching clients a deep understand-ing of the challenges of organizational life, gainedthrough a corporate sector career in sales, marketingand strategy work and a consulting practice focusing onchange effectiveness, strategy, and organization design.Her approach is integral, providing multi-faceted sup-port to individuals grappling with the complexities oflife or the turmoils of personal change.

Integral Coach™ is a registered trade-mark in Canadaowned by Integral Coaching Canada Inc. and licensedto Meg [email protected]

Brendan Schulz • Toronto ONReincarnation

Brendan has tried to make cross-cul-tural experience, change managementand valuing diversity a way of life. Hehas worked/lived in Canada, Germany,Ireland, and Turkey, and has travelledthrough 47 countries on five continents.

In corporate and consulting settings he has ledemployee engagement strategies, change managementinitiatives and managed workplace diversity initiatives.He has brought success to organizations through thedevelopment of change leadership and cultures ofchange and facilitated a series of diversity workshopsacross Canada and the United States.

Brendan is a part-time faculty member at the SchulichSchool of Business, York University where he teachesCross-Cultural Management to MBA students. He hasalso delivered seminars to support the transformative

process of thousands of international professionals andstudents learning from their new environments. Hedelivers talks on cross-cultural communications anddiversity at conferences and Universities and is on theBoard of Directors for Facilitators Without Borders.

Raised a Mennonite, this second degree karate blackbelt enjoys quirky diversity [email protected]

John Sedgwick • St Catharines ONSo, How’s That Working for Me?

John is a Consulting Partner and R&DDude with ThinkX Intellectual Capital.He is a lifelong student of groupdynamics and the art and science offacilitation. And though he’ll probablyretaliate with water bombs for our say-ing this, Sedge is arguably one of theworld’s authorities in this area.

For the past decade John has designed and deliveredtraining programs for corporate clients includingGeneral Motors, Dofasco, Stelco, and Canada Customsand Revenue Agency. For more than 20 years beforethat he was Professor of Business Administration atMohawk College, designing and developing training pro-grams tailored for corporate and government clients.

John conducts seminars and workshops through NorthAmerica and Europe in the field of management devel-opment. He is adjunct professor at the InternationalCenter for Studies in Creativity, and has presented atcreativity conferences throughout the world. In fact hewill gladly travel almost anywhere to meet new, creativepeople.

Sedge is also the spark plug that ignited the conceptualthinking behind Facilitators Without Borders and is oneof its founding [email protected]

Terri Segal • Toronto ONRhythmic By Nature: Let's Drum!

Terri Segal is an Expressive ArtsTherapist, Facilitator, and Educator whois dedicated to sharing the therapeuticvalue of creative expression throughGroup Drumming and Expressive Artsworkshops. For the past 10 years, Terrihas studied and taught West African

Drumming and World Percussion. She is a trainedExpressive Arts Therapist and Drum Circle Facilitator.

Through her business Rhythmic by Nature, Terri facili-tates Group Drumming Programs at schools, socialservice agencies, and for small and large businesses forthe purpose of teambuilding, wellness, recreation, andeducation.

In her innovative, fun, and memorable workshops, Terrifocuses on how the process of music-making canenlighten her clients in areas of communication, stressmanagement, and inter-personal dynamics. Dependingon the needs of her clients, she can also effectively facil-itate workshops that combine drumming with otherartistic modalities such as writing, visual art, movementand [email protected]

Steven Shama • Boston, MADifficult PeopleWhat Real World?

Steve Shama is a recently retired physi-cian. He is also a professional speakerwho has for the last 17 years been giv-ing keynotes and facilitating workshopsnationally and internationally on redis-covering the joys of life. While his pri-mary audiences have been in the med-ical field, his talks have universal applica-

tions, and are filled with humor, spirited feelings andcreative moments. They are guaranteed to leave partici-pants in a wonder-filled [email protected]


Tzabia Siegel • Toronto ONThe Art of Pleasure... Part 2

Tzabia Siegel, The Food Coach, is a clini-cal and corporate nutritionist and lifecoach, educating and coaching clients totransform their relationship with food,which includes mindful eating. She has afascination with and is focused onresearch in the field of brain and itsrelationship to food, addiction, behav-

ioural change and pleasure. In her spare time, she eatsgloriously, dances wildly and writes prolifically (well,sort of).

She has a nutrition/food blog at www.foodcoach.ca andis getting ready for the release this fall of her first bookon sustainable weight loss. When she has more sparetime (retirement is looking good), she will return to hervisual art of collage and her dreams of mosaic [email protected]

Beth Slazak • Buffalo NYThe Haha Moment

Beth holds a Bachelor of Arts from theUniversity of Buffalo in History with aminor in Dance, a Social StudiesCertification in Education from BuffaloState College, and is completing herMasters of Science in Creative Studies

from Buffalo State College soon. When not on campus,she is also a substitute teacher for Attica CentralSchools, (not the same as Attica Correctional Facility,just don’t ask the inmates children) and an early morn-ing religious instructor for tortured high school stu-dents.

Beth spends her time at the Creativity Center focusingon using creative tools to bring fun, laughter, and theoccasional snort into the workplace. She considers her-self a “Levity Specialist”, but most people just considerher to be “special”. She has also been the recipient ofthe Flash Nash award for costuming mishaps. (Ask herwhy she will never trust Velcro again.)[email protected]

Frank Smith • Mount Albert ONArt Making by Wrinkly People

Frank is an artist and a retired highschool visual arts teacher. He teachesprivately in his own studio and in localgalleries.

After retirement Frank began to devotehis time to volunteer and humanitarianwork. He volunteers at Camp

Oochigeas, a camp for children with cancer, and serveson the Southlake Regional Health Centre's ArtisticEnrichment Committee. Frank is also a member ofFriends of the Heart, a meditation and healing centre inToronto.

However most of Frank’s time lately is devoted to hisrewarding work as Founder and President of ABCD:Art Building Children’s Dreams, a registered charitywhich funds the education of the beautiful children hemeets on his annual trips to [email protected]

Jennifer Spear • Toronto ONYes...And: Improv 101

Jennifer Spear is a recovering seniorexecutive who now helps companiesDo Things Differently throughManagement Innovation.

Jennifer is a conceptual ideator and actsas a creative catalyst for her clients.Jennifer is a Dynamic Speaker, Facilitator

and Consultant and is passionate about the need formanagement innovation and creating engaged and cre-ative workforces.

As a graduate of both Ivey’s Executive MBA programand Second City, Jennifer operates where the businessand creative worlds collide. She works with companiesto help them Solve Problems, Plan Strategically andmake creativity and innovation a reality in their [email protected] www.cleanslatestrategies.com

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William Sturner • East Aurora NYFull Circle

William Sturner, Ph.D., is the author ofeleven books, father of two children,spoiler of six grandchildren, lover of artand music, international consultant andtrainer, psychotherapist, and very spir-ited and joyful facilitator.

His work combines the perspective ofgrowing up in the Bronx with the disciplines of Jungian,Gestalt and spiritual psychology.

His university appointments have included full profes-sorships at three American universities, vice presiden-cies at two, and visiting professorships at the universi-ties of Limerick, Moscow State, Santiago deCompostela, Buffalo State and Istanbul.

He currently lives in East Aurora, NY on his 14 acreOpen Heart Sanctuary, on which he has constructed alarge labyrinth, mandala and a series of [email protected]

Vikram Swaminadhan • Montreal QCThey Call Me Eccentric (...And I Love It!)

A multi-disciplinary inventor with across-functional business background,Vikram worked in organizations across3 continents before quitting the corpo-rate rat race and launching Creatinc in2009. Motivated by his passion forinnovation, Vikram’s aim is to propagate

a systemic approach to creativity in product andprocess innovation. He believes that everything is inter-related and we have the rather fun job of finding theconnections. Vikram currently works with a wide rangeof industries — ideating innovative products and help-ing them find new meanings for existing ones.

Besides conceiving sequels to sliced bread, Vikram is anactive proponent of creative thinking in schools, enjoysa game of tennis, loves road trips with the family andcooking for [email protected]

Harry Vardis • Atlanta GAInnovation Assessor

Harry is the Founder of Creative Focus,Inc., a market research company and heis also the Director of the Center forBusiness Innovation and Creativity atThe Coles College of business atKennesaw State University in Atlanta,Georgia.

He is a Colleague of the Creative EducationFoundation, a trainer at the Creative Problem SolvingInstitute, a lecturer at the Emory University Center forLifelong Learning and he is the founder and presidentof Creative Focus, Inc. a market research consultancy inAtlanta.

He is the author of two books: Potatoes? Not yet! 33ways to grow and harvest your best ideas, a book basedon the principles of creative thinking, and CreativeThinking Tools for a Creativity On Demand Environment, atextbook designed to teach creative thinking to MBA,EMBA students as well as corporate leaders and man-agers.

Harry’s interests are sailing, photography and [email protected]

Win Wenger • Gaithersburg MDFuture PerfectImageStreaming For Newbies And Near-Geniuses

Win has authored or co-authored, andpublished, 50 books. Researcher, inven-tor, trainer and educator, he foundedand heads the non-profit education andresearch firm Project Renaissance. Hehas created and developed more than ahundred specific methods and tech-

niques for CPS and for accelerated/enhanced learningsome of which are now in wide [email protected]


ECCI XII European Conference on Creativityand InnovationSeptember 2011 • Faro, Portugalwww.eaci.net/eccixii/index.php

Annual ACRE Creativity ConferenceOctober 2011 • Bela-Bela, South Africawww.sacreativity.com

The Next Idea Creativity ConferenceOctober 2011 • New Lebanon, New Yorkwww.creativityinstitute.net

Oklahoma Creativity Forum November 2011 • Oklahoma Citystateofcreativity.com/events/okcf/

Talentopolis November 2011 • San Miguel de Allende, Mexicowww.talentopolis.org//

Creativity Cruise February 2012 • departing from Miamiwww.creativitycruise.com

Florida Creativity Weekend March 2012 • Sarasota, Floridawww.flcreativity.com

Atlanta Creativity Exchange May 2012 • Kennesaw, Georgiawww.atlantacreativity.org

Double Festival: Returning to the Future May 2012 • Marylandwww.winwenger.com

Creativity European Association (CREA) April 2012 • Sestri Levante, Italy www.creaconference.com

World Creativity & Innovation WeekApril 15-21, 2012 • every year since 2002www.creativityday.org (worldwide)

Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) June 2012www.cpsiconference.comwww.creativeeducationfoundation.org

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