Florida Creativity Conference 2025

After an enlightening and stimulating conference, participants have the chance to give themselves the gift of time for pausing and reflecting, so they can be more effective at implementing change when they get home? This workshop serves as an opportunity for participants to consider what they've learned and how they will implement their new ideas. The session will incorporate collaboration, mindfulness, reflection, and planning. 

Key Takeaways:

• Participants will experience self-reflection regarding their implementation successes of the past and use that information to support their future endeavors
• Participants will engage in a guided visualization
• Participants will leave with a plan in place for implementing the new ideas they've gleaned from the conference

The aim of this interactive, experiential session is to enable participants to discover and describe their unique preferred blend of the different stages of the Basadur creative problem solving process, and also to understand the preferences of others. Through use of the original CPS style preference instrument, the Basadur Profile, learn how to more fully internalize the process and put it into everyday practice, honing your own unique approach to creativity and increasing your effectiveness in working with others.

Key Takeaways:

• Increase sensitivity to individual differences in problem solving style
• Identify your own unique creative process style
• Understand the power of cognitive diversity as distinct from knowledge diversity

This session will demonstrate how to use the "CRAFT-TS" framework to create personas and leverage AI throughout the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) model. Attendees will learn techniques for crafting detailed AI prompts to ideate, analyze, and prototype solutions for complex creative challenges. The session will cover best practices for prompt engineering, managing AI outputs, and integrating AI into each stage of the CPS process.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn the CRAFT-IT framework for persona creation and usage in CPS
• Discover methods for crafting effective AI prompts at each stage of the CPS model
• Develop strategies for seamlessly integrating AI tools and techniques into the creative problem-solving workflow

This engaging session brings the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process to life through the educational strategy of gamification. Teachers and Trainers will embark on a creative adventure, guided by four problem-solving experts: The Detective (Clarifying the Problem), The Idea Engineer (Ideation), The Quality Control Solution Inspector (Develop), and The Trailblazer (Implement). As participants navigate each challenge presented, they will sharpen their communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and the creative problem-solving skills.

Key Takeaways:

• By experiencing the educational strategy of gamification firsthand, educators/trainers will learn how to apply it to design more engaging, effective, and fun lessons/ training sessions.
• Participants will deepen their understanding of the CPS process and the Creative Thinking Skills involved as they progress through each step of the gamification /simulation as they collaborate to solve the “Climate Quicksand Challenge.”
• Educators will learn strategies to integrate the Creative Problem Solving process into their classroom curriculum and training sessions.

In this workshop, we will gain a better understanding of why we doodle, demonstrate the potential of drawing as a communicative medium, and learn how to draw ten (or more!) new symbols you can begin to use right away. Whether you are taking a brave first step into the world of doodling or simply looking to add a new creative tool to your facilitation toolbox, this workshop offers practical techniques for all skill levels. No experience necessary!

Key Takeaways:

• Demystify the art of graphic facilitation (it’s easy, anyone can do it!)                                                                                 
• Demonstrate the benefits of graphic facilitation (or adding doodles to your note-taking)
• Teach/Equip participants with a toolbox of basic doodles they can use all the time