UPCOMING CREATIVE EVENTS WE'RE FACILITATING,
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| Capitol Creativity Network Meeting |
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Next meeting July 12. Dr. Bill Smith presents "Creativity, Purpose and Power"
CCN website
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| Leadership Teleconference |
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"The Evolution of Leadership: An Invitation to Engage in a Conscious Dialogue." Free teleconference. July 11.
Details & Registration
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| Yes!Circle Meeting |
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I'll be presenting "Dynamic Presentations" on August 14.
Click for Details
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| Creativity in Business Call-in Program |
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I'm leading a monthly call-in show as part of WomensCommunity.com's Ask-the-Expert Program. Next show: July 19. 12-2.
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| Creativity in Business Listserve |
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Open to anyone. A forum for exploration, discussion, ideation, collaboration, and sharing information on all things related to integrating creativity in any of its forms into business.
Join listserve
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| How Do I Choose? Book Launch |
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Colleague Lorraine Cohen just launched her new book, How do I Choose? A Powerfull 5-Step Blueprint for Making Rock Solid Decisions and we're offering a bonus in support. If you purchase a copy, you'll recieve 10% off on all of our summer workshops.
About the Book
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| Globond-DC |
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We're happy to be one of the DC founding members of Globond, an international networking - and more! - group based in Boston. For membership information, email founder Kirstin Myers: kirstin@globond.com
Globond Events
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| Sociodrama Program |
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One of our Quantum Leap Improv team members, Certified Sociodrama Practitioner Atieno Fisher, is giving a 10-week Sociodrama workshop starting August 6. Sociodrama is an improvisational tool for transformation. For more info email atieno@usoni.com
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The Center for Creative Emergence
Information, Workshops & Events
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July 2006
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Greetings! We're
introducing 4 dynamic new workshops
as part of our Summer Sampler
Series. Each is part of a larger professional
development program we'll be conducting in the
fall. And each is about old pattern breaking and new
pattern making. We're also co-designing a vibrant
Peace Through Commerce event
with FLOW and
CEC. More info is
further
down
in this
email. For other events on the
summer horizon, see the side bar.
We respect your privacy and your in-box. By
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month from us. One is this CCE newsletter and one is
the
Capitol Creativity Network monthly event description.
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emails. Have a great summer!
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Emergence and Self Organization
Emergence happens where the visible and the
invisible meet. By consciously working with the
unknown, it begins to reveal
itself as we create the next idea, product, system,
service, approach, method, technology, etc. A
natural self-organization begins to happen. Creative
solutions emerge that are larger than the sum of
their parts, and often contain an element of
surprise. We begin to see interconnections that
were previously invisible to us...and leaps in
innovation can happen.
Engaging the unknown includes
thinking from within: going inward,
reflecting,
seeking patterns,
making novel connections, telling stories that weave
together different parts of the whole, using whole
brain processes to draw out information in novel
ways, improvising, entering exploration and discovery
mode, opening to expanded structures replacing
current limiting ones, seeking purpose and meaning,
and using
creativity methods to unfold what's next. Most
significantly, the willingness to be uncertain or
clueless at any given moment. Newness enters that
which we do not yet know - it requires the Beginner
Mind mentality.
"In the beginner's mind there are many
possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." -
Shunryo Suzuki-Roshi
The emergence space is not an
empty void...it is filled with future potential. It's
a space of inspiration,
discovery, and invention - a creative imperative.
And it's not limited to past experience. When
we deepen into this space within ourselves, or
within a group dynamic, a seemingly unsolvable
problem has the opportunity to re-organize into a
previously unrecognizable solution. We are moved
into future possibilities where we can more
successfully "mine" innovative
ideas and
strategies.
Since emergence is a natural process occurring all
the time, we can choose to work with this
dynamic
process in creative ways for new levels of
sense-making, integration, and business innovation.
Tom
Atlee, founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute, put
out an article entitled "Learning to Be Evolution" that
resonates with my experiences of creative
emergence - both
my own and those of my clients. In it, he reflects on
eight Evolutionary Dynamics, one of which I
am
including here: Self Organization and Emergence
Evolution has steadily enriched the capacity
of life
to organize itself into ever-more creative,
remarkable, complex, and workable forms. The
wonder of the universe is not that it was designed
from outside, but that it is designing itself from the
inside, and getting better and better at doing so.
As complexity increases, linear forms of
understanding and management become less and less
workable - both in the realm of human societies
and
ecologically in the world at large. The complexity
sciences have vividly demonstrated that life operates
primarily with distributed, evocative, loopy, self-
generating, whole-system organic forms of
organization and leadership, rather than through
straight lines, boxes, command hierarchies,
conformity, and unchanging rules (except for the
deepest laws of nature).
Using whole-system forms of intelligence, life
generates its own newness at the evolutionary edge,
which we experience as emergence, as a creative
upwelling within us, among us and around us. The
growing body of knowledge about healthy self-
organization and emergence can help us transform
problems and crises into evolutionary leaps.
Co-Intelligence Article
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Improvisation for Leaders
July 20 - Full-day workshop. Presented by Michelle James
Effective leaders and improvisers both
have to make spontaneous
decisions,
synthesize information, make others look good, see
different perspectives,
innovate, and
work toward the good of the
whole. We'll cover
the principles, practices and tools of improvisational
theater to enhance your leadership performance and
experience in real-time.
You'll
leave with skills to help enhance
core leadership competencies such as presence,
thinking on your
feet, resilience, tolerating "failure",
risk
taking, and getting buy-in. Early bird discount
through 7/10.
More Info & Registration
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Practical Brilliance
July 27 - Full-day workshop
Presented by Michelle James and Dr. Win
Wenger,
Founder of Project
Renaissance. This is a unique opportunity to
learn from one of the
world's most prolific
thinkers and published authors in the field of
creativity and creative
problem solving, Dr. Win Wenger,
in a workshop on Creative
Problem Solving
and Breakthrough Thinking. Learn cutting edge,
easy-to-learn, methods for accessing deeper levels
of creativity;
framing accurate problem statements; moving
forward; improving opportunities;
creating new visions and directions; and
accomplishing goals. Early bird discount through
7/17.
More Info & Registration
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Resonance: A New Power Tool for Leadership & Life
August 17 - Full-day workshop
Presented by Michelle James & Anita Pathik
Law,
CEO of Dare
Dreamers.
Resonance is both a competency and way of being in
the world that allows you
to be a more effective leader, collaobrator, and
innovator. Building
the capacity for Resonance
helps you decide quickly, "get"
different perspectives,
process information overload, hone in on relevant
strategies, and work collaboratively.
We'll cover resonant leadership, resonant
partnerships and resonant decision-making.
Learn novel
resonance tools and techniques
to navigate leadership
and life - and practice in real time. Early bird
discount through 8/7.
More Info & Registration
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Integral Leadership in an Emergent World
August 31- Full-day workshop.
Presented by Michelle James & Tom
Goddard, JD,
PhD, President of The
Integral Company and founding member of the
Integral
Institute. This workshop integrates
the creativity-centered approaches of Creative
Emergence with the
comprehensive worldview of Integral Theory to
create a robust working framework and new
possibilities for today's leaders. Beyond
theory alone into personal embodiment and
practical applications. Put the Integral Approach into
positive action for real-world results in an
ever-changing, emergent world - applying
the principles and practices
to professional and organizational challenges you
(and your clients) face. Early bird discount
through 8/21.
More Info & Registration
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Peace Through Commerce
A Dynamic Participatory Event in DC. September 30th. 5:00-10:00pm
You are invited to an evening of engagement,
meaning and celebration - uniting the
worlds of business, service and peace. Explore and
celebrate the power of prosperity to promote peace
in real time at this lively, creative event
featuring Michelle AVA &
World Dance Dynamics,
live music,
multi-cultural food & beverage,
facilitated speed networking (fun!),
interactive multimedia installations,
storytelling, dialogue &
collaborative inquiry,
and opportunities for action. Bring your business
cards! $20 in advance. $30 at the door. Half the
proceeds go to the PTC initiative and half go to
community development efforts via Open World
and
Global
Giving. Click here for pdf flyer.
More Info & Registration
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Our Services
We offer a variety of services
which include
emergent strategy consulting, corporate and public
workshops, creativity training, breakthrough
coaching, ideation facilitation, professional
development and wellness
programs, conference presentations and Quantum Leap Business Improv. Our
blog is The
Fertile Unknown.
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Sand Pattern Photographs
Thanks to Kris Northern for permission to use
his photographs in this newsletter.
Found at www.phidelity.com.
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