Florida Creativity Conference 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am EDT

The Neuroscience of Creativity

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

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

Speakers

Haley Forest

Consultant, HCForest

Haley Forest is a seasoned strategist and international consultant with a deep focus on innovation, leadership, and behavioral science. Currently pursuing a PsyD in Leadership Psychology with a concentration in Neuroleadership at William James College, Haley merges her extensive background... Read More →

Friday March 14, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Room 218

Breakout Workshops, Advanced

By Track CPS Tools, Facilitation, Communication

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