Florida Creativity Conference 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am EDT

How to Have An Unforgettably Creative Life

Friday March 14, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EDT

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

Speakers

Steve Shama

Retired, JoyWorks

Steve is a retired physician and a proud 25 year member of the CPSI and the creativity community, giving many sessions at CPSI and Mindcamp. He's a full time professional speaker, engaging audiences on topics dear to his heart…endearing communications, empathic connections between... Read More →

Friday March 14, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Room 208

Breakout Workshops, Beginner

By Track Creativity, Self-Reflection

1:00pm EDT

Pause and Ponder: Enhancing Focus through Guided Contemplation

Friday March 14, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Room 218

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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.

Speakers

Kim Macuare, Ph.D

Director of Education and Co-Director of Innovation Labs, The Dali Museum

In her role as the lead program designer and facilitator for the Innovation Labs, Kim has helped many organizations—from non-profits to government entities to Fortune 100 companies—build their innovation capacities by developing creativity-focused mindsets and problem-solving... Read More →

Friday March 14, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Room 218

Breakout Workshops, Intermediate

By Track Creativity, Self-Reflection, Facilitation

4:30pm EDT

AI & CPS: Powering Up Creative Problem-Solving

Friday March 14, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Room 218

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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.

Speakers

Bradford Partridge

Chief Goaling Officer, Goaling Places LLC

A certified life coach and creator of The Goaling Method, Brad Partridge specializing in CPS, Career and Goal Coaching.Brad has worked in corporate partnership management, sales, marketing, and consulting within the theme park (3), media (TV, radio, print and online), pro sports... Read More →

Kristen Petersen

Adjunct Professor, Creativity & Change Leadership, SUNY Buffalo State University

Kristen Peterson is a master facilitator, trainer and organizational development consultant who specializes in the people skills organizations need to create growth through innovation. She brings a big dose of passion, energy, and infectious can-do mentality to her work as an Innovation... Read More →

Friday March 14, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Room 218

Breakout Workshops, Advanced

By Track CPS Tools, Creativity, Facilitation, AI

4:30pm EDT

The new sciences of creativity, newness, and Genius: in search of Vincents, Pablos, and Salvadors

Friday March 14, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Room 208

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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!

Speakers

Andrei Aleinikov

Retired, International Academy of Genius, President

Dr. Andrei Aleinikov is “the MegaCreativity Man” as Dr. Torrance called him for the discovery of megacreativity, for founding 10 new sciences, including the sciences of newness, creativity, and genius, for the discovery of 11 new laws of conservation, for publishing over 160 books... Read More →

Friday March 14, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Room 208

Breakout Workshops, Beginner

By Track Creativity, Self-Reflection