Into Creative: Lectures & Seminars

Creativation™ Seminar

Reclaim, cultivate and evolve the inbred creative talent we all posses through the day-long Creativation seminar. Presented in a highly interactive, playful and accelerated learning environment, the seminar is designed to inspire and teach useful, innovative thinking.

Features and Benefits
Course Content

Features & Benefits

Creativation participants will:

Discard myths and limiting habits regarding creativity.

Understand practical creative principles.

Gain insight into the brain's role in their creative mechanism.

Learn how to apply the critical stages of the creative process to everyday situations.

Tap into the power of imagination through the PowerImaging™ technique.

Learn to create and organize countless winning ideas, through the Braindiving™ idea-generating method.

Creativation benefits:

Solve problems quicker and easier

Increase productive collaboration

Enhance individual and team performance

Reduce stress through improved output

Control and direct thoughts and actions

Generate and implement ideas that work

Course Content

Introduction and warmup.
Participants get ready to have a positive learning experience through a stimulating, relaxed environment, clear meaningful goals and immediate personal engagement in the process.

Think about it.
Participants will be introduced to and incorporate into their thinking a set of three principles useful in approaching creative challenges. These principles, presented with an accompanying activity to reinforce their validity and value, provide a framework and springboard for further knowledge.

Creative? Who me?
Participants will understand and discard myths and limiting beliefs about their own creative capabilities through illustration, examination and discussion of preconceived notions regarding creativity. This module also includes activities designed to rekindle the creative spark.

How many brains do we have, anyway?
As a preparation for absorbing and utilizing a set of creative techniques, participants will gain a general understanding of how the brain operates, how to distinguish between left and right brain functions and how to find an effective balance. Included are exercises to move beyond solely rational, cognitive, linear, and fixed modes of thinking.

Imagination and daydreaming ain't so silly.
Participants will understand the role and power of their own imagination and its relevance to the creative process and success mechanisms. Included are exercises creating dynamic and useful movies of the mind as well as "minds-on" exercises for breathing life into vision statements.

Skipping stones on the reservoir of ideas.
Participants will understand the four basic steps of the creative process and create relevant applications to real life situations. Activities to help learners link steps to brain functions are presented as well as a review of situations, activities or states of consciousness conducive to the emergence of ideas.

Braindiving into the reservoir.
Participants will learn a dynamic brainstorming technique, Braindiving™. An Interactive demonstration of (how to avoid and break limiting brainstorming habits is also presented. In this module, participants will discover the multiple uses of Braindiving. The seminar will culminate with participants generating hundreds of ideas related to a relevant problem or project they are facing.

Braindiving™ Ideation Session

Learn to use a dynamic and highly productive brainstorming technique for generating countless ideas in the Braindiving™ half-day ideation session.

Essentially, a half-day version of the Creativiation™ Seminar, this session is designed to quickly focus on and learn a technique for generating hundreds of ideas quickly. Highly interactive and stimulating, the session provides an entertaining demonstration of how not to brainstorm and the benefits of collaboration in generating ideas. It concludes by addressing a real and pressing problem or project facing the participants.

Course Content

Creative? Who Me?
Old Myths and Habits Die Hard?
Some Practical Principles
Collaboration Can be Fun
How Not to Do It
Ground Rules for No Rules
Going For It

Keynote Presentations

Henry S. Olguin's highly entertaining and informative presentations are designed to help awaken the creative mind. Drawing from experiences as an athlete, actor, writer and ad man, Olguin uses humor and personal stories to inspire and motivate his audiences to more effectively tap into their innate creative potential.

Favorite Topics

Why We Need a Creativity Revolution

Highlights
We need to do things better
Wishful thinking vs. sound techniques
A treasure MAP
Staying open to all possibilities
Creative? Who, me?
Myths that stifle creativity
Lighting your creative fire
Where and how to go for it

Imagination-Creativity's Work and Playground

Highlights
Built to create
Dual-brain power
Where ideas come from
Imagination ain't silly
Victorious visions
Ask and ye shall receive
Practical principles
Just do it!

Creativity-A Key to Athletic Achievement

Highlights
The athlete's arsenal
Great innate ability
The MAP to success
Thinking in pictures
Winning examples
Desire and motivation
Faith and expectation
Mental practice



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