Florida Creativity Conference 2025

Registration is open, check in with Jamie and Rosie.  Get your conference bag, decorate your name tag and start meeting other conference attendees.

Join us in the Brickman Café for a light breakfast and coffee before the workshops begin.

If you are new to FLCC, Foundations of Creative Problem Solving is your fast track to a deliberate creativity process for solving problems and capitalizing on opportunities. You’ll learn the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process, the research-based gold standard of creativity methods, and be exposed to the FourSight framework, which can help you understand how you and your teammates approach challenges.

In an incredibly engaging format, your team of experienced facilitators will use hands-on activities, real-world examples, and a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools to give you the skills you need to advance your personal and professional goals.

Foundations of Creative Problem Solving is the first of four skills-building courses in Creative Problem Solving. After completing all four CPS courses, you will deepen your ability to facilitate and train others in the CPS process, while also becoming eligible to be considered to lead CPS programs at future CPSIs!

In this course, you will:
• Recognize and overcome blocks to creativity.
• Identify attitudes and behaviors conducive to creative thinking.
• Apply core concepts of creative thinking.
• Use a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools.
• Apply the CPS method to many simulated or real situations.
• Consciously be creative when facing problems and opportunities.

NOTE: This is a three-day course and you must be present for all of class time on all days. This core track is limited to 25 attendees. You must select Foundations of CPS when registering for CPSI to attend this track (selecting it here in Sched does not qualify as reserved spot). Foundations of Creative Problem Solving is your fast track to a deliberate creativity process for solving problems and capitalizing on opportunities. You’ll learn the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process, the research-based gold standard of creativity methods, and be exposed to the FourSight framework, which can help you understand how you and your teammates approach challenges.

In an incredibly engaging format, your team of experienced facilitators will use hands-on activities, real-world examples, and a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools to give you the skills you need to advance your personal and professional goals.

*PREREQUISITE: Level 1: CPS Foundations at previous CPSI or FLCC. If you did not take Level 1 but have a solid understanding of the Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem Solving process, you must connect with CPSI Program Staff before being enrolled.

Level 2: Creative Problem Solving Tools is a natural stepping stone if you have previously taken Level 1: Foundations of CPS. This fast-paced course allows beginner to intermediate facilitators to go deeper into the CPS process, adding more facilitation tools to your repertoire.

You will gain a clear understanding of which tools to use at each stage of the CPS process, as well as how to modify them to fit your session objectives or add a bit of creative flair. You will have time to practice tools to gain real mastery of them. You will also learn a variety of energizers and fun grouping games to keep your sessions engaging and interactive. Learn through small- and large-group work, including round-robin sharing and show-and-tell exercises.

In this course, you will:

• Explore a variety of divergent and convergent tools for individual and group problem solving.
• Learn how and where to apply different tools within the CPS process.
• Practice facilitating tools.
• Discover how to use tools when you or your team are unable to progress or working in areas of low preference.

NOTE: You must attend your Core CPS Course all days of the conference to complete this program and qualify for the credential assessment for CPS Level 2.

This core track is limited to 25 attendees. You must select Tools when registering for FLCC to attend this track (selecting it here in Sched does not qualify as reserved spot).

Caring Outside the Lines: Bringing Creativity into the Caregiving Journey - Caregiving is a journey of both deep love and enduring challenges. In this session, Dianne will explore how creativity can transform the caregiving experience, equipping attendees with fresh perspectives and practical strategies for fostering connection, managing stress, and adding joy to daily caregiving routines. Drawing from her own caregiving experience, she’ll share real-life stories, techniques for thinking outside the box, and guidance on how to bring renewal into even the most difficult caregiving situations.

This workshop is unique because we don't always realize that creativity and caregiving can go hand in hand.

Key Takeaways:

• Inspire Caregivers to Think Creatively: Encourage participants to embrace new, personalized methods in caregiving that can make the experience more rewarding and compassionate for everyone involved
• Provide Practical, Innovative Tools: Equip caregivers with specific tools and ideas that can be adapted to various caregiving roles and environments, whether for family, friends, or professional settings
• Offer Emotional and Spiritual Resilience Tips: Discuss how creativity can serve as a source of resilience, providing a way to cope with stress and emotional fatigue

Have you ever wished for a creative life, filled with joy and gratefulness? To live a creative life is to fully live, to be able to find the child in you and to get permission for it to express itself whenever. Imagine being able to easily find and tap into that part of you, light your way each day, to support you in your journey so that you can commit to making the rest of your life one unforgettably incredible creative adventure! In this session, we will explore it through group interaction and using wonderful handouts, quotations and stories, what an unforgettably creative life looks like, what gets in your way, how do we make it better and how do we know it's working? The sessions is guaranteed to put a smile on your creative face, to warm your creative heart, and to be unforgettable.

Key Takeaways:

• Define what an unforgettably creative life would look like
• Describe what gets in your way of having an incredibly creative life
• Explore ways of making it better
• Leave with techniques to keeping this new life fresh...forever

When objects are damaged, the Kintsukoroi aesthetic vision for repairing them is based on "the beauty of imperfection" so, the restoration highlights the repair as part of the new object.

This workshop is about learning and applying restoration techniques to a real damaged piece, as a way to reflect on the role of damaged places in our life.

Key Takeaways:

• Experience the beauty of imperfection as part of the creative process (and life itself)
• Reflect on the damaged aspects of your life in a safe and creative environment
• Build an anchor about all these in a physical form to bring back home

Unleash the power of your brain to supercharge creativity and innovation! In this hands-on session, you’ll explore the neuroscience of creativity, learning how key brain networks like the Default Mode, Executive Control, and Salience Networks fuel your best ideas. Gain practical tools to overcome creative blocks, enhance problem-solving, and inspire innovation in yourself and your teams, all while collaborating in a dynamic and inspiring environment.

Key Takeaways:

• Practical Neuroscience Tools: Understand how to leverage brain networks to enhance creative thinking and problem-solving, with actionable techniques to apply immediately
• Overcome Creative Blocks: Learn strategies to break through mental barriers and ignite new ideas, helping you and your team stay innovative in any environment
• Inspire Innovation in Teams: Gain insights into fostering a creative culture within your organization, using neuroscience-based methods to inspire collaboration and fresh solutions

Grab a bite to eat and enjoy seating inside or the outdoor covered patio in the front of the building.  

Get creative in this hands-on workshop!  In this session, participants will discover how communication can transform conflict and enhance creativity. They'll learn simple, practical techniques to foster collaboration and turn conflict into opportunities for growth.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand personal conflict styles
• Gain insight on how these styles impact conflict at work
• Learn communication skills to navigate conflict

In 90 minutes, I’ll guide participants through my signature ‘get unstuck’ creative process.
They can bring any project they’re currently working on and I'll move them from feeling frozen to back in flow. We’ll look at how to better schedule creative work, how to manage your energy, how to juggle different responsibilities, how to know when work is ‘finished’ and what your default ‘stuck mode’ is.

Key Takeaways:

• Anything in life has the potential to get us 'stuck' creatively
• Getting 'stuck' is an opportunity, not an obstacle
• The biggest blocker to creativity is mindset

In this session, participants will engage in a series of hands-on contemplation activities designed to focus attention, deepen engagement, and enhance understanding. Using different modalities—writing, drawing, looking—you will explore how contemplative practices help build sustained attention skills and inspire inquiry and insight, revealing new ways of knowing. In addition to helping viewers develop deeper reflective practices around art viewing, participants will also consider how these activities could be used as part of their general facilitation toolbox.

Key Takeaways: 

• Learn the basics of contemplative pedagogy.
• Engage in several deep encounters with works of art.
• Gain a few new tools for your facilitation practice.

Facilitating any kind of Workshop or Ideation Session begins well before you get everyone in a room full of easel paper and new markers. There’s an art to designing a great problem solving or innovation or clarify session. But there’s also science, or at least math, to piecing it all together and feeling confident that it will work.

Key Takeaways:

• Techniques for timing your session design
• Tips for staying on track
• And ways to cope when it all goes off the rails

If you are new to FLCC, Foundations of Creative Problem Solving is your fast track to a deliberate creativity process for solving problems and capitalizing on opportunities. You’ll learn the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process, the research-based gold standard of creativity methods, and be exposed to the FourSight framework, which can help you understand how you and your teammates approach challenges.

In an incredibly engaging format, your team of experienced facilitators will use hands-on activities, real-world examples, and a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools to give you the skills you need to advance your personal and professional goals.

Foundations of Creative Problem Solving is the first of four skills-building courses in Creative Problem Solving. After completing all four CPS courses, you will deepen your ability to facilitate and train others in the CPS process, while also becoming eligible to be considered to lead CPS programs at future CPSIs!

In this course, you will:
• Recognize and overcome blocks to creativity.
• Identify attitudes and behaviors conducive to creative thinking.
• Apply core concepts of creative thinking.
• Use a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools.
• Apply the CPS method to many simulated or real situations.
• Consciously be creative when facing problems and opportunities.

NOTE: This is a three-day course and you must be present for all of class time on all days. This core track is limited to 25 attendees. You must select Foundations of CPS when registering for CPSI to attend this track (selecting it here in Sched does not qualify as reserved spot). Foundations of Creative Problem Solving is your fast track to a deliberate creativity process for solving problems and capitalizing on opportunities. You’ll learn the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process, the research-based gold standard of creativity methods, and be exposed to the FourSight framework, which can help you understand how you and your teammates approach challenges.

In an incredibly engaging format, your team of experienced facilitators will use hands-on activities, real-world examples, and a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools to give you the skills you need to advance your personal and professional goals.

*PREREQUISITE: Level 1: CPS Foundations at previous CPSI or FLCC. If you did not take Level 1 but have a solid understanding of the Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem Solving process, you must connect with CPSI Program Staff before being enrolled.

Level 2: Creative Problem Solving Tools is a natural stepping stone if you have previously taken Level 1: Foundations of CPS. This fast-paced course allows beginner to intermediate facilitators to go deeper into the CPS process, adding more facilitation tools to your repertoire.

You will gain a clear understanding of which tools to use at each stage of the CPS process, as well as how to modify them to fit your session objectives or add a bit of creative flair. You will have time to practice tools to gain real mastery of them. You will also learn a variety of energizers and fun grouping games to keep your sessions engaging and interactive. Learn through small- and large-group work, including round-robin sharing and show-and-tell exercises.

In this course, you will:

• Explore a variety of divergent and convergent tools for individual and group problem solving.
• Learn how and where to apply different tools within the CPS process.
• Practice facilitating tools.
• Discover how to use tools when you or your team are unable to progress or working in areas of low preference.

NOTE: You must attend your Core CPS Course all days of the conference to complete this program and qualify for the credential assessment for CPS Level 2.

This core track is limited to 25 attendees. You must select Tools when registering for FLCC to attend this track (selecting it here in Sched does not qualify as reserved spot).

Welcome to a fresh look at how Artificial Intelligence could become a powerful partner in Creative Problem-Solving! This session will give you an engaging overview of AI’s potential to streamline effort, speed up results, and even enhance the CPS experience. Together, we'll brainstorm, explore, tinker and discuss how AI can both open doors and raise questions, all while keeping our focus on the ways it can improve our ability to support ourselves and our clients.

Key Takeaways:

• A fun, friendly look at where we are now with AI integrations as of March 2025.
• How AI might impact the CPS process in practical and surprising ways.
• Strategies to embrace AI’s potential in CPS while being mindful of any potential pitfalls.

Experience an innovative conceptual thinking tool that integrates analytical and imaginative thinking to create better, more robust business strategies applicable to any complex problem. In this highly interactive session learn a tool and techniques you can use day-to-day to discover both real root causes and awaken to new aspirational opportunities in complex problems leading to new insights on how to best innovate. We will create an explicit logical map connecting actionable tactics to strategic pillars to broad strategic vision as a better way to articulate robust strategies with ownership.

Key Takeaways:

• How to use a structured process to surface new connections and hidden insights
• Greater ability to identify the right level of challenge using the “Why/What’s Stopping?” analysis
• Converge with commitment on the most important challenges

This is a unique practical session that shapes NEW geniuses in the field of visual arts. It uses the Genius Education Methodology to wake up genius and lead the participants to the genius path. At least three geniuses will walk out of the door — this is the planned outcome. 

Key Takeaways:

• Scientific approach accelerates development immensely
• Genius explained scientifically is easier to develop.
• Be a new Genius!

In this interactive session, participants will discover how their unique behavioral drives can highlight their creative strengths and challenges. Through a brief self-assessment and group discussions, attendees will explore ways to leverage their natural tendencies for enhanced creativity and effective problem-solving. The session will include engaging activities that encourage collaboration and hands-on learning based on individual insights.

Key Takeaways:

• Understanding of Personal Behavioral Style: Participants will gain insight into their unique behavioral style and how it influences their interactions and creativity
• Awareness of Collaborative Strengths and Challenges: Attendees will learn how their behavioral traits can both enhance and impede their collaborative and creative efforts, leading to a deeper awareness of their team dynamics
• Practical Strategies for Enhanced Interactions: Participants will leave with actionable strategies for effectively engaging with others, fostering better teamwork and innovation in their personal and professional lives

If you are new to FLCC, Foundations of Creative Problem Solving is your fast track to a deliberate creativity process for solving problems and capitalizing on opportunities. You’ll learn the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process, the research-based gold standard of creativity methods, and be exposed to the FourSight framework, which can help you understand how you and your teammates approach challenges.

In an incredibly engaging format, your team of experienced facilitators will use hands-on activities, real-world examples, and a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools to give you the skills you need to advance your personal and professional goals.

Foundations of Creative Problem Solving is the first of four skills-building courses in Creative Problem Solving. After completing all four CPS courses, you will deepen your ability to facilitate and train others in the CPS process, while also becoming eligible to be considered to lead CPS programs at future CPSIs!

In this course, you will:
• Recognize and overcome blocks to creativity.
• Identify attitudes and behaviors conducive to creative thinking.
• Apply core concepts of creative thinking.
• Use a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools.
• Apply the CPS method to many simulated or real situations.
• Consciously be creative when facing problems and opportunities.

NOTE: This is a three-day course and you must be present for all of class time on all days. This core track is limited to 25 attendees. You must select Foundations of CPS when registering for CPSI to attend this track (selecting it here in Sched does not qualify as reserved spot). Foundations of Creative Problem Solving is your fast track to a deliberate creativity process for solving problems and capitalizing on opportunities. You’ll learn the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process, the research-based gold standard of creativity methods, and be exposed to the FourSight framework, which can help you understand how you and your teammates approach challenges.

In an incredibly engaging format, your team of experienced facilitators will use hands-on activities, real-world examples, and a variety of divergent and convergent thinking tools to give you the skills you need to advance your personal and professional goals.

*PREREQUISITE: Level 1: CPS Foundations at previous CPSI or FLCC. If you did not take Level 1 but have a solid understanding of the Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem Solving process, you must connect with CPSI Program Staff before being enrolled.

Level 2: Creative Problem Solving Tools is a natural stepping stone if you have previously taken Level 1: Foundations of CPS. This fast-paced course allows beginner to intermediate facilitators to go deeper into the CPS process, adding more facilitation tools to your repertoire.

You will gain a clear understanding of which tools to use at each stage of the CPS process, as well as how to modify them to fit your session objectives or add a bit of creative flair. You will have time to practice tools to gain real mastery of them. You will also learn a variety of energizers and fun grouping games to keep your sessions engaging and interactive. Learn through small- and large-group work, including round-robin sharing and show-and-tell exercises.

In this course, you will:

• Explore a variety of divergent and convergent tools for individual and group problem solving.
• Learn how and where to apply different tools within the CPS process.
• Practice facilitating tools.
• Discover how to use tools when you or your team are unable to progress or working in areas of low preference.

NOTE: You must attend your Core CPS Course all days of the conference to complete this program and qualify for the credential assessment for CPS Level 2.

This core track is limited to 25 attendees. You must select Tools when registering for FLCC to attend this track (selecting it here in Sched does not qualify as reserved spot).