American Creativity Association International Conference 2006

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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Pre-Conference Institutes


Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Friday, March 24, 2006
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Sunday, March 26, 2006

March 22 - 25, 2006
with Pre-Conference Institutes
March 20 - 21, 2006

at Hilton Austin Airport in Austin, TX

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Monday & Tuesday, March 20 -21: Pre-Conference Institutes
Keynotes & Plenary Sessions
Wednesday, March 22
Thursday, March 23
Friday, March 2
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Saturday, March 25

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Breakfast Plenary - Creativity is Not Being Afraid to Fail: The 3M Experience led by Andrew Ouderkirk (3M Corporate Scientist, 3M, St. Paul, Minnesota)

Who's Filling My Sponge: A Whole Brain Approach to Creating More Capacity for Change led by Lynne Krause (NAVSUP Change Management Team, Naval ICP, Philadelphia, Pennsytlvania)

Exploring Organizational Change, Work and Family Dynamics through Art led by Elaine St. Marie (Software Engineering Program Manager, Hewlitt Packard, Austin, Texas)

Thinking Expedition led by Rolf Smith

MASTER CLASS with Andy Ouderkirk (3M Corporate Scientist, 3M, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

The Athlete Mindset: Learn and apply the same creative methods used by professional athletes to succeed in pressure situations led by Mark Kovacs (President. Metis Performance, Bessemer, Alabama)

Creating an Innovation Commons led by Paul Schumann (President, Glocal Vantage, Inc., Austin, Texas; President, Central Texas World Future Society Chapter)

Chilean Creativity@Work led by Antonio Basauri Puelma (Secretario Académico, Carrera de Publicidad, Escuela de Comunicación, Facultad de Humanidades y Educación, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile)

The CREATAS Series:Progressive and creative steps to self-discovery led by Roberta Shoemaker-Beal (Art Therapy Clinician, Austin, TX)

Closing Conference Luncheon Plenary - North Pole Tenderfoot led by Doug Hall (Founder and CEO, Eureka Ranch, Cincinnati, Ohio)

 

To Be Scheduled:

Silent Story Telling - The Art of Conveyng 1,000s of Words Without Saying a Word led by Robert Alan Black (CR8ng People, Places & Possibilities, Athens, Georgia)

Return On Creativity (ROC): How Can We Have Innovation Without Creative Thinking? led by Harry Vardis (Founder, Creative Focus, Atlanta, Georgia)

CombinFormation and the Future of Knowledge Creation by Andruid Kerne (Interface Ecology Lab, Center for Stiudy of Digitalk Libraries, Texas A& M University, College Station, Texas) & Rodney Hill (University Profdessorship in Teaching Excellence, Institute for Applied Creativity, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas)

Harvesting the Fruits of Innovation by Sowing the Seeds of Uncertainty led by David Swedlow (co-Founder, Synergy for Practical Conceptual Innovation, Austin, TX)

Building and Sustaining an ACA Chapter to Foster Networking, Learning and Personal Growth led by Barry Silverberg (ACA Executive Director and Director, Center for Community-Based and Nonprofit Organizations at Austin Community College, & President/ CEO, Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations, Austin, Texas)

ACA National Board Meetings

 

 

ACA2006 will be even better than ACA2005

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