The Fertile Unknown

Creativity in Work Program for Work That Rocks

Time for my annual Creativity in Work Program. If you are in the DC area and this resonates, join us! :-)

Creativity in Work Professional and Personal Development Program
May - June 2012

Use the Creative Resources within you to inform new Work Directions, Strategies, Innovations, Projects, Products or Services

    *  Discover, design, and develop what's next in your work
    *  Cultivate your creativity and self-awareness
    *  Focus your creative intelligence for practical results
    *  Learn to use uncertainty as a productive business resource
    *  Develop a solid, structured framework of what you offer and your differentiating, unique "signature"
    *  Create, innovate and implement with confidence
    *  Attract clients aligned with your vision and mission

Practical, tangible outcomes and offerings will emerge from the inside-out over the course of 6 weeks. Your passion, skills, talents and experience will inform the goals and structures. This program contains a balance of left and right brain activities, analysis and intuition, strategy and emergence, thinking and being, action and reflection, theory and application, lightness and depth, and improvisation and planning...with actionable results.

We'll use the Creative Emergence Process with a rich integration of creative practices, including improv, story, the arts, intuition techniques, reflection tools, whole-brain/accelerated learning methods, creative thinking, ritual, and analytical and evaluative approaches to help you create next-level business solutions. Along with your business changes, you change internally.

This course is not about writing out lists and taking notes. It is about delving in, whole-person creating, breaking patterns, and cultivating new ideas, structures and directions - that are both creative and practical. It's for you if are truly committed and ready to birth something NEW into the world that serves others and is aligned with who YOU are!

Leave With:
    * The development of new or the refinement of your existing offerings.
       If you work for an organization, new ways to apply creativity to your work.
    * The next evolution of your work direction, project, work environment,
      approach, product, service, design, process, program, workshop or model.
    * A self-designed framework, set of strategic goals and an action plan.
    * The initial implementation of your action and marketing plans.

Program Includes:
    * 4 full-days of workshops, each building on the one before
    * 1 two-hour+ Creative Emergence coaching session
       PLUS one 1-hour post-workshop follow-up session
    * Creativity in Work workbook - activities and resources with your emergent ideas and learnings
    * Emergence Box - relevant items to engage your process outside of the workshop setting
    * Engaging and relevant practices to do in between workshops
    * All art supplies and program materials
    * In depth attention due to small group size
    * Quality food, gourmet coffee, teas and spring water
    * Certificate of Completion

This program is for entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, consultants, trainers, innovators, coaches, creatives, psychologists, healers, sales and marketing professionals, change agents, pioneers and people in transition to name a few - anyone creating something new in their work.

Details & Registration: http://www.creativeemergence.com/cinw.html

New Work Paradigm: Holistic Generativity

One of the things I've been most passionate about on my own work for many years is focusing my energy toward the emerging paradigm of work, one where financial generatively (making money) is only part of the whole and not, as in the conventional paradigm, the central bottom line...or even the only driving bottom line. The new paradigm has multiple bottom lines; multiple ways of creating and engaging; and includes new ways of being and interacting as well as doing and acting. It requires an entirely new foundations, not just new ways to "succeed" in the old foundational landscape.

There is a larger movement of integration underfoot, and more and more people are committed to helping bring this new life-giving work paradigm forward. It is already happening. We can focus on creating/unfolding a better future - leaving that which no longer serves, "yes-anding" what does - or we can carry the baggage of the past and be limited by what worked then. We get to choose where we put our intention, attention, creativity and action. In the new work paradigm, we can bring more of who we are into the structuring of our work, our collaborative partnerships, our companies and our service in the world. We don't have to silo oursevles or our company missions.

We can create work, businesses and organizations that are alive, creative, adaptive, resilient and holistically generative by establishing new foundations; integrating the isolated parts of ourselves and our lives; questioning the assumptions underneath our current beliefs and our value systems (including our current relationship with money and set of accompanying beliefs); engaging the creative unknown to go beyond what we currently hold as "the way it is"; forming life-giving collaborations based on resonance and aliveness; giving conscious space, time and attention to our creative imaginations; developing generative practices and rituals to help us "live into" our visions and embody new ways of being; listening to what calls to us from within; and expanding the conventional bottom line to include more of our creativity, humanness, connection and deeper contribution..

Related post:  27 Elements fo the New Work Paradigm  - shifting our ways of working to ways that are expanding the notion of what work and business is and can be.