Florida Creativity Conference 2025

Values are qualities or characteristics that describe who we are and who we want to be - as facilitators, educators, leaders, and people. When we understand our values and act on them, we are more likely to make a positive impact on ourselves, others, and the world around us. In this session, you’ll engage in hands-on exercises, reflection, and discussion to identify your core values and discover creative ways to take action on them, giving you a new tool to show up as your authentic self in your work and your life in general.

Participants will:
• Identify your core values
• Discover ways to act on your values
• Plan which values you’ll prioritize and how

Participants will use LEGO bricks to build 3D models. They are asked to 'build' based on a question they are asked (Build a model where you feel your creativity shines) 2) They share their model (This provides them with story telling confidence and allows others to get to know them - find commonalities/differences) 3) Reflect - participants reflect on the experience, their learnings etc. Depending on the number of participants we will be able to get through 2-3 questions. A final question in each workshop is to build "one action they will take away and apply to their work/life."

Key Takeaways:

• Confidence (in their ability to share)
• Story Telling (ability to use alternative methods for sharing their thoughts) 
• Awareness (through a tactile exercise they can learn something about themselves and others for which a question may not uncover or unlock)

In this interactive session, we will explore how shifting perceptions can enhance creativity and even improve communication!  Through hands-on perception exercises, including optical illusions and word games, you'll engage your senses and rewire thinking patterns to see the world in fresh, innovative ways. You will gain practical skills in the dual solutions of perception-checking and empathy building.

Key Takeaways:
• Gain insight into how your brain takes charge without you even knowing it
• Understand a clear connection between the perception process, creativity, and communication
• Learn how to change your perceptions, open your mind, and enhance your creativity

If you are a member of a committee, head of a business or organization or simply a person who has difficult people in your life, like a colleague, friend, family member, who are e.g. angry, controlling, demanding, this course is for you. You'll experience creative ways of dealing with difficult people so you make peace not war. Bring your difficult people scenarios and we’ll generate, thru role playing, many powerful and practical approaches to solving these frustrating situations and you'll leave with a time-tested handout of tools and techniques, in a session that will be filled with humor and poignant moments.

Key Takeaways:

• Identify the underlying reasons why people become frustrated, upset, angry, entitled or controlling. 
• Learn specific techniques and phrases to defuse an angry person and calm their behavior.
• Make life easier and more enjoyable by not allowing difficult people to steal your joy — no matter what!
  

In this session, we will explore how moving from the need to be right to embracing curiosity can foster deeper connection, even in disagreements. Through practical exercises and embodiment practices, you will learn how to shift your mindset, rekindle curiosity, and approach difficult conversations with openness and empathy. Participants will walk away with tangible tools to improve communication, build stronger relationships, and find connection in unexpected places.

Key Takeaways:

• Be inspired by the Power of Curiosity in Conflict: Participants will learn how shifting from the need to be right to embracing curiosity can transform difficult conversations into opportunities for deeper connection, even with those they disagree with.
• Gain skills to overcoming Barriers to Listening: Participants will explore common barriers to listening during hard conversations—such as the need for validation or protection—and practice skills to listen more effectively, even when the conversation is emotionally triggering.
• Learn practical Tools for Connection: Attendees will leave with actionable techniques—such as relaxing the body, asking reflective questions, and recognizing shared vision—to rekindle curiosity and improve communication in both personal and professional relationships.

Do you ever get stuck when deliberate creativity bumps up against reality? Do you know why? In this discovery-focused workshop, you'll combine to powerful strategies to gain insights into yourself and the creative process. You'll start with the Playmobil ProPlay™ method--a way to invoke that magical mindset that allows you to see and say things through play that are often difficult to express through words alone. Next, you'll apply Polarity Thinking™, the both/and approach that enables you to understand and leverage the normal tension of interdependent truths (for example, Focus on the Team AND focus on the individual) to shatter the most common barriers to truly productive problem solving.

Key Takeaways:

• Explore ProPlay™ as a tool for understanding the key forces that can both constrain and liberate your thinking
• Discover basic Polarity Thinking™ principles and explore at least one creativity polarity that is important for you
• Challenge yourself to think about specific applications of these insights for those you lead, facilitate, and work with