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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


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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Your own Creative Definitions of Creativity


  • Defining creativity
  • How to control your creative thinking skills

The Time-Binding Principle


  • Progress and improvement as self-consciously directed processes that include, but goes beyond, gut feelings, intuition, guesswork, and so on.

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

Science and the Creative Process


  • Understanding the world around us
  • Experimental, theoretical, and heuristic approach
  • Appreciating differences in rhythms
  • Feedback, refining maps
  • Visualization

Mathematical Ideas We Can Use to Enrich the Creative Process


  • Variable, function, calculus, structure, order, etc.

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”

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

Factors that Promote and Block the Creative Process


  • Language, cultural conditioning, labels, customs
  • Education, fear, conflicts, stress
  • Allness, identification

Creative Approach to Problem-solving and Decision-making


  • Structuring the problem
  • Structural similarity
  • Appreciating interrelationships
  • The importance of “order”
  • Making smart and smarter decisions

Forms of Representation


  • Verbal, music, movement, drawing, doodling, diagramming, visualization, etc.

Using Stress as a Creative Motivator


  • Ways to managing ourselves in stressful situations.
  • Time management
  • Self-management

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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