Holiday Festival: Creativity, Give-Aways, Wine & Cheese, Music and FUN!

Bring a dish to share, and get $5 off at the door!

With Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence and founder of CCN

RSVP to Michelle@CreativeEmergence.com

Join us for an evening of creativity, fun, socializing, networking, wine and cheese and other delights. Bring food to share and get $5 off at the door.

Creativity has become the capitol of the 21st century - a central focus in the world of work. The foundations from which we create greatly influence the output, quality and relevance of what we create...and how easy it is to access our creative wellspring on an ongoing basis. In this all-new, FUN, energized session, we'll:

• explore core cultural and personal foundations - including assumptions, values, models and perceptual frameworks - that inform our creativity
• examine the difference between inhibiting vs. generative creative structures
• experience ways to move beyond "outdated" foundations that no longer serve us
• emerge new foundations that allow for more creativity, meaning and passion

Through storytelling, improvisation, and visual exercises, you'll engage in a lively, whole-brain approach for delving into what it means to create with purpose in work and life. Leave with a greater understanding of your "informing foundations", your internal foundations more aligned to meet the needs of the new work paradigm, and a set of Foundational Creativity techniques you can use at work and home to set 2010 up to be a generative year for you.

Michelle James is CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence and founder of the Capitol Creativity Network and Quantum Leap Business Improv. She is a business creativity consultant, facilitator and coach who has been pioneering creativity and improvisation in business in the DC area for over 15 years. She's designed and delivered hundreds of public workshops for solo-preneurs and leaders and business creativity programs for organizations such as Microsoft, GEICO, NIH, World Bank, and Kaiser Permanente among others. Michelle has been featured on TV, the radio and in print and was recognized for Visionary Leadership in Fast Company's blog, Leading Change. Most recently, she produced a sold-out Creativity in Business Conference here in DC. Michelle performs full-length improvised plays with Precipice Improv. You can reach her at www.creativeemergence.com

After the session, stick around for festive time! We'll provide wine and cheese. Add to the creative mix by bringing a dish to share and get $5 cash back at the door .

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Also, there is now a Capitol Creativity Network Online. Click this link to join:

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