Organizational Workshops

Creative Thinking Workshops

Online in in person. Habitual approaches generate habitual solutions. To generate new ideas, innovations, and solutions mean trying new ways to get there. These programs will provide you with immediate, concrete, easy-to-use practices for increased creativity, problem solving, and new solutions finding. Highly experiential and highly practical, you will come away with processes that you can apply immediately within your work environment to your real issues. 

These workshop we use varity of creative appraches and practices, applied storytelling, applied improvisation, and other arts-based practices and mush more with proven creative solution finding methods. Workshops include:

Customized Applied Creativity workshops on topics such as: 

Creativity and Innovation
Cocreation and Collaboration 
Values-Centered Creativity

Leadership and Team Building
Innovation and Inspiration
Emergent Storytelling

Creative Archetypes and Rituals
Creating with the Unknown
Crafting Creative Futures

Creative Leadership Workshops

Online or in person. Creativity is increasingly being recognized as the most valuable leadership skill. Creative Thinking relies on breaking habitual patterns, exploring, discovering, and taking informed risks, and adapting to ongoing uncertainty and change. In these highly interactive workshop, participants will experience learn and experience creative nindsets and skillsets, and compelling creative practices, tools, and techniques to use on themselves and with their teams; engaging experiential methods for collaboration and co-creation; and applying creative process for vision creating and crafting desired emergent futures.   

In these workshops, participants learn and experience principles and practices of Innovative Solution Finding , Creative Thinking, and Creative Leadership, and Emergent Storytelling   to successfully create what's next  in our emergent world. 

Creativity for Leaders / Creative Leadership
Improvisation for Leaders
Leading / Facilitating Creative Teams

Cocreative Teams Workshops

Online or in person. Creative Thinking and Co-Creativity rely on breaking habitual patterns, trying new things, exploring, discovering, and taking informed risks. In these dynamic workshops, participants experience compelling experiential methods for collaboration and co-creation; and applying creative process to your real work projects and goals.

The focus is on getting to know each other better; strategizing next steps, even in uncertainty; building on other’s ideas in generative ways; principles of co-creation; taking safe risks; developing trust and synergy; and, to use a well-known principle of improvisation, "Making everyone else look good."  Teams that learn to co-create togehter build more trust and bonding.

Cocreation and Collaboroation
Team Building
Innovation

Creative Facilitation Workshops

For Faciliators, Trainers, OD and HR teams, Leaders, and anyone who wants to bring more creativity out of themselves and their participants or teams.

Bring your trainings alive! Juice up your repertoire of activities, participant engagement, and buy-in using whole-brain Creativity Practices.  In this workshop, you'll experience a variety of Applied Improvisational Theater, Applied Storytelling, and other Applied Creative Thinking (visual, somatic, reflective) practices and approaches that will enliven your programs, accelerate participant learning and deepen your presence, confidence, and flexibility as a facilitator. This workshop is for anyone who wants to create vibrant, meaningful learning environments and feel more comfortable with the unexpected.
Improv, Movement & Embodiment take us out of our habitual actions/ interactions and into the "blank canvas" of the Now, where we let go of outdated mindsets and thinking. Storytelling brings connections, purpose, humor, relatability, and insights in ways lists and data do not...and gives meaningful context to facts and information. Visual Thinking and arts-based practices generate more varied and novel ideas. Conscious Reflection opens up more insights, options, and choices and expand the "safe container " we hold for our particpants.  We will explore using a variety of creative approaches to:  

Learn new skills, vocabulary and tools 
Explore the applications of these new methods  
Deepen your understanding of your own creative process 
Stretch beyond "been there, done that" into exciting new territory  
Let go and respond spontaneously; meet the moment with presence  

 This workshop will focus on two levels at the same time - you as a professional facilitator and you as a creative individual. You'll experience the principles of creative engagement, creative mindsets, and practical applications of using whole-brain Applied Creativity practices to design and facilitate dynamic learning, connecting, and creating – and learn how to:

Quickly and easily engage participants in experiential activities 
Use creative practices   in a coherent, organized way within your design 
Become comfortable improvising as a facilitator 
Think on your feet, adapt in the moment and  meet the present   
Using foundational principles to transform blocks and barriers   

 These Train-the-Trainer Programs can be customized for Facilitation and Training teams,  HR teams, OD teams,  emerging Leaders, or any type of group.

Applied Improvisation Workshops

For individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations

Today's business world requires leaders and entrepreneurs to be open to new ideas, have flexibility in thought and action, take risks, work within ambiguity and uncertainty and still confidently move forward – just like improvisers.  Improv-based learning helps people break patterns in order to influence and respond in new ways. It helps people feel comfortable with using their own inventiveness, putting ideas out there, taking more risks and tolerating mistakes. Improv takes us out of our habitual interactions delivers us back into the moment where more possibilities open up. We let go of controls and the linear-only mindsets that otherwise inhibit our inner creative leadership ability. By doing the unconventional, we experience a insights and ideas we would not otherwise access.  See more on our Appiled Improv page. 

Customized Applied Improv 
workshops on topics such as:

Improv for Creativity and Inspiration
Improv for Innovation and Discovery
Improv for Connection and Cocreation
Improv for Fun and Aliveness
Improvisation for Impactful Stories
Improv for Leaders
Improv for Facilitators and Trainers
Improvisation for Team Bonding
Improv for Sales Teams
Improv for Marketing Teams
Improv for Groups with Diverse Values

Innovative Business Solutions

For entrepreneurs, leaders, teams, and organizations

In this highly experiential session, you will learn a variety of creative thinking tools and techniques you can use in your work or business, and then you will have the opportunity to apply them to your real issues in real time. We will explore pattern-breaking and whole-brain methods for generating new solutions, accessing deeper levels of creativity and innovation, moving through creative blocks and resistance, and using more your natural creative abilities. You will leave with techniques you can use at work for ideating and visioning, creating new directions, innovative solution finding and accomplishing your business goals. Where insiration, aspiration, and ideation meet practical business outomes.