Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) 2018

Wondering how to jumpstart your innovative thinking? Try One-Day CPS. It introduces key concepts for exploring the context, understanding your problem, and creating solutions. It helps you develop a framework so you can be more mindful when producing and evaluating ideas for your own challenges. Explore the distinctions between creative and critical thinking and how to apply them appropriately during a Creative Problem Solving process. Learn how to expand your options before applying parameters. Be positive in selecting solutions. Collaborate with others in an engaging environment, including varied and diverse perspectives to strengthen ideas. This workshop will help you:
* Assess challenges needing creative solutions.
* Examine problems from multiple perspectives.
* More consistently stretch your thinking.
* Be more purposefully innovative in solving your own real-world challenges.
* Understand your Creative Problem Solving strengths and how to effectively work with others.
* Discover the fun in seeking solutions to thorny challenges.
NOTE: This one-day workshop on the Creative Problem Solving process is introductory and is not a substitute or accelerated version of the three-day Springboard to Creative Problem Solving.

NOTE: SPACE IS LIMITED; BE SURE TO SELECT A SPARK WORKSHOP DURING YOUR REGISTRATION.

Are you looking for new tools to help people innovate? This workshop is hard fun and could be just what you need. This is a facilitated thinking and communications technique, which draws on extensive research from the fields of business, organization development, psychology and learning. Using hand-brain knowledge, this 3D process helps teams surface information, explore ideas, create better options, develop deeper knowledge and identify solutions faster with 100% engagement. You will both experience the flow of being a client, and also debrief from a facilitator's perspective. We’ll start with a brief introduction and then get hands on with the bricks. After individual skill building, we’ll move to individual model building and then an innovation mining game. You will learn how to:

• Add LEGO bricks and directives to your workshops to improve engagement.
• Apply a five-step process to improve communication.
• Identify when LEGO Serious Play can be most useful.
• Supplement your creative program.
• Avoid conversational roundabouts.
• Use flow theory and underlying neuroscience principles that make this so powerful and memorable.
• Facilitate and explore ideas on a deeper level using this fun tool.

NOTE: This workshop counts toward full certification in LEGO Serious Play. SPACE IS LIMITED SO BE SURE TO SELECT A SPARK WORKSHOP DURING YOUR REGISTRATION.

You've gone digital for communicating, calculating, planning and playing. But when it comes to facilitating Creative ProblemSolving, you still use Post-its and flip chart paper? Good news! Things have changed. Stormz is a digital application, used by facilitators around the world, which allows you to engage online and in-person groups in collaborative sessions using CPS tools and techniques (word dancing, brainstorming, forced connections, PPCO and many others). This workshop is designed for experienced CPS facilitators. The focus is not on CPS tools and techniques, nor on facilitation, but on how to use Stormz to facilitate CPS sessions that integrate the process and tools you already use. This workshop is ideal for practitioners experiencing flip chart and Post-it fatigue. You will learn how to:

• Work with groups in multiple locations.
• Create greater collaboration and engagement when leading large groups.
• Leverage new technology to support the CPS process.

NOTE: This workshop counts toward full certification in Stormz, available online for free. You can set up an account and use with 3 additional people at no cost. This workshop is valuable whether or not you choose to become certified.

NOTE: SPACE IS LIMITED; BE SURE TO SELECT A SPARK WORKSHOP DURING YOUR REGISTRATION.

Do you want to make your facilitation sessions smooth and seamless? Do you sometimes miss the transitions in the Creative Problem Solving process? Are you stressed out before your facilitation session, anxious as you are working through it and exhausted when you are finished? In this highly interactive workshop, you will:

• Learn to confidently move through the CPS process so that you can consistently produce breakthroughs for your clients.
• Improve your skills at facilitating the CPS process.
• Become more at ease in your facilitation sessions.
• Experience, practice and explore the “inside moves” that make the CPS process flow smoothly and effectively.

This session assumes previous exposure to the CPS process and is not meant to introduce participants to the process. Please bring your facilitation challenges and issues with you.

NOTE: SPACE IS LIMITED; BE SURE TO SELECT A SPARK WORKSHOP DURING YOUR REGISTRATION.