"Alan is a migrant worker who picks brains,

not fruits and vegetables."

Merry M. Black, Ph.D. - late wife, 1949-1998

licensed psychologist

_______________________

South Korea - Ukraine - Holland - Russia - Mexico - Sweden

________________________

Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP

International Creative Workplace Consultant

.............

Sweden ..............................Teipei, Taiwan

___________________________________________________

1944 - 1961 - family summer vacations took me to all the 48 mainland states of the US, Canada and northern Mexico.

1977 - throughout Europe, Egypt, Greece, Yugoslavia

and the UK for 110 days.

1978 - again to the UK and France for 5 weeks.

1982 - traveled to the Netherlands at the beginning of the Summer and the end before I went to teach and travel in Italy for 3 months stopping in Germany while returning to the Netherlands.

1990 - did my first training programs in The Netherlands

1998 - South Africa to present at the 4th African Creativity Conference and have every year since and to travel.

1999 - added Turkey to my travels most years to present at Turkish Creativity Conferences in Istanbul and to travel in that region of the world.

2001 - first time completely around the world,

speaking in 16 of 18 countries.

2002 - South Africa, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, England and Scotland to work with clients.

2003 - around the world 3 separate times (84, 25, 9 days) going to 30 countries presenting, researching, developing connections, working with other consultants and gathering information and examples for future programs and consultation.

2004 - a dozen different countries doing programs for clients and presenting at international conferences, including:

Taiwan, South Africa, Ukraine, Singapore, and Italy.

2005 - worked for 3 weeks in Scandinavia with 5 companies and organizations in Denmark, did a workshop for about 50 people at a castle in Holland, traveled to Finland and Sweden and then presented in Singapore, Turkey, Italy, and traveled in Germany, Japan (Cherry Festivals), and Taiwan and traveled to South Africa in September and October. In December I went on an 11 day trip again to Singapore where I also did a two-day workshop Singapore for the Singapore Institute for Business. During that short trip I also took a boat over to Batam, Indonesia and on my return trip I had to change planes in Hong Kong.

2006 - Singapore trip in August scheduled but cancelled due to low registration of workshop. Rescheduled to November.  September a trip to a Y-Camp to the west of Toronto to present at and attend MIND CAMP, a fun and creative Creativity Weekend Workshop. Also in September another annual trip to South Africa to once again present and participate in the South African Creativity Conference (A.C.R.E.) and to present in the first Educators Conference held outside Cape Town at a beautiful resort, Goudini Spa.  In 2004 I presented at a South Africa-wide Educators Creativity Conference at Alpine Heath in the Drakkenberg Mountains in the southeastern part of SA. November off to a resort near Brisbane, Australia to present at and be part of a symposium about creativity in ALL Animals. I also spent a few days in Sydney before the Symposium and a couple in Templestowe, a suburb of Melbourne with friends and to present at the Templestowe Rotary meeting.

2007 - Plans for this year include.... January - El Salvador, San Salvador. April - Dublin Ireland. September - Toronto, Canada. September/October South Africa.

South Africa / Japan

Denmark / Sweden / Finland

Mexico / Poland