Polarities for Creativity

Registration: $25 at the door

RSVP requested to Michelle@CreativeEmergence.com

How we think about and work with values influences how we create, lead and perform. In this session, you will explore the benefit of placing your relationship with values into a larger creative context to create generative engagement and sustainable high-performance for yourself and others. In this content-rich and highly interactive session, Cliff will weave together the work of Dr. Barry Johnson - who developed Polarity Management - with creative process, leadership development, OD, psychology and philosophy - focused on practical results. You will:

• Gain a better understanding for how interdependent values can be "tapped" to access and apply creativity
• Experience "dynamic balance" that is a key leadership and organizational competency today (i.e., both adapting to change while maintaining a sense of stability)
• See the serious implications that occur when particular values are overemphasized to the neglect of their interdependent value pair - and how to transform them into creative opportunities

In addition to covering an overview of the basic concept of interdependent values (also known as polarities, dilemmas, paradoxes, or unsolvable problems), participants will experience the Polarity Map from a four-part creative process: See it, Map it, Tap it, and Track it.

Leave with increased knowledge of how to create more generative opportunities, use interdependent value pairs to help direct the flow of creative energy, and detect Early Warning Signs that can undermine the ability to tap the energy system. Take home "both/and" Actions Steps you can apply to any situation.

Cliff Kayser is Founder and President Xperience® LLC - which offers Organization Consulting, Executive Coaching, and Leadership Training services - and Kayser Ridge Retreat and Learning Center in Berkeley Springs, WV. Prior to launching Xperience® in 2007, Cliff was VP of Organizational Development and Training for The National Cooperative Bank; Senior OD Consultant at The Washington Post newspaper; Corporate Manager of Human Resources at The Washington Post Company; and held human resources and management positions at the Planning & Development Collaborative International, law firm of Arter, Hadden, Haynes & Miller, and ServiceMASTER. Cliff serves as an adjunct faculty for the AU/NTL Master's Program and is a visiting faculty of The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and The Mason Center for Team and Organizational Learning. An Associate and Certified Master of Polarity Management Associates, Cliff speaks and trains on values and interdependent values in leadership and organizational systems. He presents at conferences and events internationally and recently brought, with Barry Johnson, Polarity Management to the Creative Problem Solving Institute. His client list includes T. Rowe Price; Amper, Poliziner & Matia, PCC; Rand Construction, USDA, Consumer Product Safety Council, GSA, CIA, NASA, Ashoka, Hopeworks, The Asian-American Justice Center, Scitel and the Alliance for Non-profit Management among others. Contact Cliff at www.xperienceit.com and www.KayserRidge.com.

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