| “There is no question that you were the hit of the conference and we have hundreds of harmonica converts to prove it.” — F. William Steere, Education Chair, YPO Area Conference . |
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| The Creative Manager and the Creative Team | |||||||||
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In this workshop, the group breaks up into units of six (table seating rather than theatre seating will facilitate this), and David introduces — musically — a variety of creativity enhancing strategies and techniques. Some of these are based on traditional models (such as the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving methodology). Others are influenced by more recent work in the field (such as Gardner’s “Types of Intelligence,” Torrance and Garfield’s “Vision” work, Kao’s concept of “Jamming,” and the Swedish studies on the “Creative Climate”). David is happy to study any other creative methodology of your choice, and integrate it into the program!
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| Naturally, these strategies and techniques aren’t talked about — they’re experientially demonstrated by the participants for themselves, using the harmonica to play a wide variety of music, from Beethoven to Rock and Roll! And that most creative form of American music — Blues Improvisation —is heavily featured. Thus techniques for enhancing creativity and team process are built in: painlessly! Often, each group will perform, on stage, for the others (with David’s help, as shown)... |
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