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Negotiation Institute Inc.
Empire State Building
350 5th Ave, Ste 5701
New York, NY 10118
Email:gerardn@negotiation.com
Phone: 212.888.0053
Fax: 212.888.7775
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The Art of Creative Thinking™:
Developing a Creative Orientation
Seminars are not about solving mathematical
problems. The focus is on principles, methods, and procedures we can integrate
from the fields of science and mathematics; from our own experiences,
those from others past and present, from the history of our race; and
from anything in our environment and elsewhere, which we can use to help
us improve in any area of our daily living…A meta-system, you could
say -- addressing personal and professional relationships, understanding
self, others, and situations we find ourselves in.
In the seminar great emphasis is placed on
recognizing that “The degree of success we achieve in any situation
depends on what we bring to the situation…”ourselves”
-- including our cultural conditioning, experiences, knowledge, training,
hang-ups, vision, discipline, etc.
Workshops include small group discussions,
simple exercises, games, movements, music, short films, stories, jokes,
and more. They are not lectures, but more an experiential, creative, learning
environment where “We learn to learn from ourselves, from each other,
and from anything.”
The seminar, with your help, is designed to
be a creative environment. A creative orientation cannot be taught. Developing
a creative orientation is something you do. You will be introduced to
many basic theories, principles, and ways to move you along the path to
make your living a creative process. The rest is up to you. ‘Seeing’
things from different points of viewing, you extend your intelligence
and develop a more satisfying sense of self. In time, with practice, you
will find that a creative orientation helps you create more satisfying
personal and professional relationships. You will find developing a creative
orientation a worthwhile adventure.
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212-888-0053
Your own Creative Definitions of Creativity |
- Defining creativity
- How to control your creative thinking skills
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The Time-Binding Principle |
- Progress and improvement as self-consciously directed processes
that include, but goes beyond, gut feelings, intuition, guesswork,
and so on.
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Ourselves as Architects of the Creative Process |
- Consciousness, self-consciousness, unconscious factors related
to the creative process
- Sense of self, talents, tendencies, habits
- A transcendental approach (Bernard Lonergan S.J)
- Communication
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Science and the Creative Process |
- Understanding the world around us
- Experimental, theoretical, and heuristic approach
- Appreciating differences in rhythms
- Feedback, refining maps
- Visualization
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Mathematical Ideas We Can Use to Enrich the
Creative Process |
- Variable, function, calculus, structure, order, etc.
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Critical Thinking in the Creative Process |
- Ways to improving your ability to think clearly and develop
yourself (mind-body-spirit-attitude-behavior).
- Principles of non-identity, non-allness, consciousness of abstracting
- Appreciating differences between “effectiveness,”
and “efficiency”
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Powerful Ways to Make Better Sense of Things |
- Thinking about thinking
- Distinctions between maps and territories
- Words, and what they are used to represent
- Fractals, metaphor, structural similarity
- Seeing differences in similarities, and similarities in differences
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Factors that Promote and Block the Creative
Process |
- Language, cultural conditioning, labels, customs
- Education, fear, conflicts, stress
- Allness, identification
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Creative Approach to Problem-solving and
Decision-making |
- Structuring the problem
- Structural similarity
- Appreciating interrelationships
- The importance of “order”
- Making smart and smarter decisions
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Forms of Representation |
- Verbal, music, movement, drawing, doodling, diagramming, visualization,
etc.
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Using Stress as a Creative Motivator |
- Ways to managing ourselves in stressful situations.
- Time management
- Self-management
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Taking a Creative Approach as a General Life
Orientation |
- Nourishing our spirits.
- Developing a sense of self.
- Appreciating the importance of stories, games, fun, jokes, imagination…
- Practicing what we know
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