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C,r,e,8,n,g! – Alan

Rabbit Box – “SAVED” Storytelling Event in Athens, Georgia http://rabbitbox.org/2013/03/17/rb10-audiocast-saved/ ** * * * Yes we can LEARN TO and IMPROVE our abilities to LEAD, COMMUNICATE, TEAM, CREATE Watch this very short video… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uznBJHf7IeM&list=UUosH0mvro_lScEyJ-C3O_mg&index=13&feature=plcp To learn...

2013 CPSI

2013 CPSI Conference in Buffalo – Save-the-Dates & Spread the Word Unleash the Possible Learning & connecting opportunities for business and change leaders, educators, practioners, innovators and learners. It’s all happening at the Creative Problem Solving Institute: June 20 – 23, 2013. A conference like no other, CPSI returns to...

2013 Mindcamp

http://mindcamp.org 2013 is the 11th Mindcamp August 22 – 25th It is returning to beautiful Geneva Park north of...

2013-19ACRE, 8ACRE Edn

2013 link to main website. 2nd Namibian ACRE postponed until 2014 visit the websites for all 3 conferences. LINK Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP, DLA * Creative Thinking Consultant * Creative Thinking Speaker * Creative Thinking...

2013 – XII FICI in Vi...

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Background & Bio pages

This page shares information about my 52 years of work and study experience around the globe focused on the development of skills and knowledge of LEADING, COMMUNICATING, TEAMING, CRE8NG. Sample video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEKXvE4r2Ss * * * * * * * * “Alan is a migrant worker who picks brains, not fruits and vegetables.” Merry Black,...

Workshop Workbooks

WORKSHOP HANDOUTS & WORKBOOKS Creative Thinking * Leading * Communicating * Teaming Here are many samples of workshop handouts and workbooks that have been successfully used with clients and at conferences in 35+ of the 50 US states and 30+ of the 210+ countries around the world since 1976. They are in pdf format for you to download at your convenience. ...

Broken Crayons-Book

BROKEN CRAYONS has been published in 4 countries (US, Turkey, Slovakia, South Africa) and translated in a 5th (Japan) Want to buy YOUR COPY? go to AMAZON http://www.amazon.com/Broken-Crayons-Break-Outside-Lines/dp/0966477006/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328723276&sr=8-1 or go to FETCH A BOOK to compare prices for the BEST DEAL for...

Blogs & Videos

BRAND NEW VIDEO Thanks to one of my graduate students, Brooke, I now have a video of an interview focused on Developing Creative Thinking Around the Globe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WbQMgvYc6Y&feature=youtu.be Rabbit Box – “SAVED” Storytelling Event in Athens, Georgia http://rabbitbox.org/2013/03/17/rb10-audiocast-saved/ Video clip from UTAR...

Creativity Conferences

Global Creativity Conferences The following is information about Creativity Conferences held around the globe. Also check: http://www.ifoco.org for more information - – - - For over 60 to 70 years there have been annual creativity conferences, institutes, workshops held in many different countries. CPSI (57 yrs) JCS (30+) ACA (20+) ACRE (16) NextIdea Mindcamp...

Alan’s C,r,e,8,n,g! C...

2012-52 is the 832nd ACC in 16 year. NEW!!! 2012 ACC COMPLETE FILE Do you want to increase your creativeness? Do you want to expand your creative thinking skills? Do you want to spark your creativity? Do you want to learn fun ways to tap and improve your creativity in 15 minutes? Become More Creative Every Day! Receive C,r,e,8,n,g! Challenges you...

2012 – 18th Acre, 7th...

18th Annual African Creativity & 7th Creativity in Education Conferences Alan is returning to present for 15th time at ACRE and the 7th at the Creativity in Education Conferences held at Klein Kariba. ACRE is currently the largest creativity conference in the world and Creativity in Education is the only of its kind in all of Africa. Photo Tour of ACREclick to see...

Alan’s Bureaus

Speakers & Talent Bureaus Who Represent Alan This page lists bureaus that professionally represent me as a speaker to their clients. To learn more about how I may help you with your organization, meeting, conference or convention please contact your Speakers Bureau or one of the following…. Read introductory material on the next page following the list of...

2012 Thinking Style Survey

Interested in participanting in this ongoing study of THINKING STYLE PREFERENCE tests? Them download either of these, complete one and send it to me at alan@cre8ng.com THINKING STYLE SURVEY (pdf format) received shapes survey stats nov 2012THINKING STYLE SURVEY (.doc format) THIRD COLLECTION REPORT downloaded onto this website Sunday, November 18th (based...

MINDDesign

Please help me complete a GLOBAL M.I.N.D. Design Thinking Style Survey. Click on the MIND Design. Complete the 9 questions. Click on report. Send me the following info. city, country, occupation, age (20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s 70s 80s) and 4 SCORES send to (capture and post) alan@cre8ng.com From our Thinking Style or Preference often we can learn about our styles...

2012 Brazil 3 Cities

* * * * August 2012 I traveled to Brazil for the very first time. * * * * Bem-vindo à minha página web de turismo 2012 Brasil. Aqui você vai encontrar conteúdo e materiais da minha city tour 3: 1. keynote de FICI – Conferência Criatividade em Aracaju 2. 2 dias de oficina (4, 4 módulos de RH) em São Paulo 3. 1 dia de oficina (2, 4 módulos de RH) em...

Audience Involvement

Audience Involvement SAMPLE BOOK OF INVOLVEMENT EXERCISES Have Balloons, Crayons and Hoola Hoops Let’s Meet!, sample e-book The following materials, links, pots, pdfs are all focused on AUDIENCE INVOLVEMENT exercises from my career as a speaker, workshop leader, facilitator, consultant and college professor. Included are articles, blogs, webinars, podcasts from 1995...

Improve L/C/T/CT Skills

Learn to be a… Productive Leader – Supervisor, Team/Group, Manager to CEO Effective Communicator – verbal, written, visual, physical Successful Team Leader/Member Much More Creative Thinker and Problem Solver - – - - Benefits to clients: Increased skills in a. Leading today’s workplaces b. Communicating more effectively: verbally,...

Presentations

This page contains sample PPT presentations 2010 PPT presentations will be placed here for participants. (some require Adobe Reader to download or view) South Africa Australia – Art of the Animal Symposium M.I.N.D. Design Presentation Dow slides(20mb) ______________________________________________ ©1997...

Tools 4 Creative Ideas

Creative Thinking Tool & Techniques Yes Hammers Can Be Used for More Than Pounding Nails PPT Involving 40 to 40,000 People (ppt program) All of the consultants involved with Cre8ng People, Places & Possibilties are highly trained in many creative thinking tools and problem solving processes. Whether as individual facilitators or teams of facilitators CP3...

Programs-Popular Past

Here are some sample popular programs that I designed and presented to help my clients’ staff and managers to develop skills of: Leading, Communicating, Teaming and Creative Thinking Popular Programs with Clients The following are descriptions of programs I have created for clients that have been asked for over and over for several years for their...

C,r,E,8,N,G! Communities

Developing Cre8ng Communities and S.P.R.E.A.D.ng Creative Thinking throughout entire organizations from the front and back doors to the top floor. Everyone is born with vast capacities to be creative. Yet ALL cultures tend to cause people to conform and focus on “conventional thinking” rather than creative thinking in their workplaces, EXCEPT when there is an...

C,r,E,8,N,G! Process

C,r,E,8,N,G! Creative Solution Generating Process In 1976 thanks to Bob Eberle, author and creator of his famous creative thinking tool: S.C.A.M.P.E.R., I was introduced to the Creative Education Foundation‘s annual CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING INSTITUTE. In 1978 I attended my first CPSI and have been attending yearly ever since. One of the greatest learnings from my...

Creative Thinking in Kids/C...

TTCT – Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking by SJS click on this link to receive a PDF about the TTCT TTCT STS 2003 Catalog Developing Creative Thinking in Children Over the past 60 to 70 years and all the way back to Maria Montesorri, John Dewey and Fredrik Froebel you can find a vast amount of material devoted to the development of creative thinking in children in...

Lists of Creativity Books

* * * * Books on creativity Richard Lawler’s list of 40 creativity books What would you add to Richard Lawler’s (Innovation Demystified)’s list? Please send your list of favorites and I will post a link to your website and add your books to the growing global list of books. * * * * * Look at this growing list that will download when you click on...

2012 World Creativity &...

World Creativity & Innovation Week April 15 – 21 Creativity is in you…use it…Go! Skip to content HOME ABOUT WORLD CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION WEEK APRIL 15 – 21 Creativity: Next step (III) World Creativity and Innovation Week personal project Posted on January 21, 2012 | 2 Comments Image via Wikipedia To recap – it’s World...

Kobus Neethling-ACRE

“My first impressions of Alan Black were shaped when I met him at the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo in 1991. He demonstrated fun, creativity and a zest for life — not by talking about these qualities, but by living them.” “He has presented well at several of our conferences combining humor and creativity in a very special way....

CSIR South Africa Testimoni...

Dear Dr Alan Black Thank-you for an excellent idea generation session last week! We thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt a great deal! The group found great value in it, and asked me to thank you. You have also inspired some very left brain engineers to embark on a learning journey in creative thinking! It will assist us as we generate ideas and address the problems of South...

Jonathan Vehar, CCL (was N&...

“Alan knows what he’s talking about! Yes, he’s funny, entertaining, and compelling, but unlike so many other presenters on the topic of creativity, he knows the research behind it. He can present the headlines AND he knows the full details to back it up. It’s possible that no one knows more about what’s behind creativity than Alan.” March 31,...

Porter Poole WOW!

“Alan is an amazing creative force and teacher. His unique perspective from traveling the world and many years of living creatively make him a fantastic presenter, author and teacher. I’m proud to know him as a friend and associate.” Porter Poole, Owner, WOW! Solutions,...

ASIA Testimonials

During my 3 weeks in Singapore from October 28 to November 18 I did a two day workshop in Singapore, a 2 hour demonstration of one of my workshops to several SIM staff, plus I did a series of presentations at Universities and professional groups plus did a 2-day workshop in Malaysia: Penang, Georgetown, Kampar, Kuala Lumpur, and PJ. The following include testmonials from...

Dave Klug Illinois DHS

Dave Klug & Team Illinois DHS “The follow-up Train-the-Trainer sessions you did with the ten of us were exquisite! The creativity you brought — the creativity you taught us — was just amazing. To this day I’m not certain how you were able to pass on to us so much of your ability to create. We are “walkin’, talkin’ proof’ that...

SOS – Southern Order ...

Purveyors of the Oral Art of Storytelling Home Upcoming Events Storytellers Clusters Membership Links Donate! Upcoming SOS Events: 2013 SOS Storytelling Festival - January 25-26, 2013 * * * * Other Upcoming Storytelling Events: to be announced during 2013. - – - - Past SOS Events: Carapace (formerly Atlanta MothUP), every 4th Tuesday at 7:30...

Uni-Strategic: Jakarta May ...

May 20-21 in Jakarta, Indonesia * * * * Program Brochure PDF Brochure for Alan * * * * ppt note sheets The following are handouts (4 slides per sheet) for each of the 8 Modules of this program. uni Jakarta intro overview.ppt uni Jakarta module 1.ppt uni Jakarta module 2a tools divergent.ppt uni Jakarta module 2b tools converge.ppt uni Jakarta module 3 styles.ppt uni...

2013 New Zealand Creativity...

THE CREATIVE EDGE FORUM Taranaki New Zealand April 2013 Here is my ppt presentation from my 90 minute session on Saturday “TURN ON THE SWITCH TO CREATIVE THINKING” 2013 NZ turn on the switch 1 of 2 2013 NZ turn on the switch 2 of 2 WHY CREATIVITY? The creative process is the most successful process for accomplishment in history. In today’s...

2013 SRCUS (34th yr)

It has been fun and an honor to be on the faculty of SRCUS each year since 1981. One day in 1980 I received a phone call from Dr. Hugh Watson from the Terry School of Business asking: “I understand you do workshops on Creative Thinking. Would you do one for the 1981 SRCUS Program.” After great deliberation I said yes. Ha Ha. I doubt I even waited the...

2013 Dubai-Creative Thinker...

Hello Attendees of my session at the CREATIVE THINKERS PROGRAMin Dubai.This is the page I promised the 16 to 20 of you, who attended my session on Monday morning, March 4th I would post for your use as reminders of the session. Due to the late start I cut out the section focused on introducing 6 Creative Thinking Tools (3 Divergent and 3 Convergent). Instead I focused...

2013 – 10th FCW Flori...

iNTERESTED in iGNITING your iMAGINATION & CREATiViTY? SAVE THESE DATES: March 1-3, 2013 Florida Creativity Coalition in partnership with the University of South Florida Sarasota/Manatee present the: 10th Annual FLORIDA CREATIVITY WEEKEND For details, location, workshops, speakers, pricing visitwww.flcreativity.com This...

My Professional Work

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Since 1980 I have been helping clients, groups, organizations and individual to further develop skills and styles of Leading, Communicating, Teaming and Creative Thinking.

How May I help you, your team, your department or your organization?

1) Ideas can be discovered, combined, created, improved
2) Orchestrating with and through your people
3) S.T.I.R. It up – Show, Tell, Involve & Reach Me
4) Teams are individuals doing great work together

IDEA GENERATION SERVICES

Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP

Creative Thinking Consultant – creativity – creative problem solving - creativity consultant

My Life Passion: Creativity

We all are born with potential to think creatively and become more creative!

We can continually learn more about being creative and to think creatively and to solve problems creatively. This website is filled with pages to help you become more creative instantly or over time with practice and through learning tools, techniques and skills.

Do you want to increase your Creativity, Creative Thinking & Problem Solving Skills?

Books, CDs, DVDs, Workbooks, e-books, Handouts, links to Blogs, and Articles.

IDEA GENERATION SERVICES

Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP

Creative Thinking Consultant – creativity – creative problem solving - creativity consultant

My Love: Global Travel

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I have learned much through my WANDERING, TRAVELING since I was 5 years old.

Since I rode completely around the block where my birth home was on my tricycle the first time I have been a WANDERING TRAVELER. Between 1950 and 1961 thru Family Summer trips I was in 48 mainland states and made it 49 by going to Hawaii in 2002. Since 1977 I have been in 86 countries and still continue to travel each year.

Have you always wanted to travel the world?

Do you travel around the world now and want to more?

May you enjoy virtually traveling with me through my website pages.

Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP

Creative Thinking Consultant – creativity – creative problem solving - creativity consultant