Creativity Expert Exchange 2022

Center for Applied Imagination

<h1>A Word About CEE </h1>More than 2 decades ago the department formerly known as the International Center for Studies in Creativity (now the Center for Applied Imagination) began hosting an annual conference that came to be known as CEE (Creativity Expert Exchange). In 2021 we shifted our annual conference to a virtual format and, as a consequence, we set an all-time record for attendance (more than 170 participants from around the world). Through CEE we celebrate the creativity community, engage in continuous learning, and explore and test new ideas. Our 2022 CEE features two keynote speakers and more than a dozen concurrent sessions from which to select. To encourage participation, admission is free. Though we are encouraging and accepting donations. A Zoom link will be provided to you after you register (special registrations instructions below). <h2>CEE Program (Delivered via Zoom) </h2><h1>DAY ONE: March 10, 2022 </h1>- All Times based on New York Time Zone SCROLL DOWN TO SEE SESSION DESCRIPTIONS9:30 Virtual Coffee Hour10:00 Welcome and Orientation10:15 Keynote:Creativity and the possible: On the cusp of a new paradigmDr. Vlad Glăveanu, Webster University11:30-12:15 Virtual Meal Break &amp; Optional Chat with Dr. Yudess &amp; Dr. Puccio regarding graduate studies12:15-1:00 Concurrent sessions (select session when you register):•	Biology as a Source of Creative Energy•	What you Think is the Problem is not the Problem•	Ways of an Innovation Culture Designer AND Arg, Using Creativity to Negotiate Ambiguity1:00-1:15 break1:15-2:00 Concurrent sessions (select session when you register):•	How Employees can Gain Commitment for their Ideas•	Understanding the Relationship between Creative Preference and Social Style Behavior•	Organizational Creativity: From Organizational-Oriented to Human-Centered Outcomes•	Playstorming(TM): The Future of Brainstorming2:00-2:15 Wrap-up &amp; Preview Day 2<h1>DAY TWO: March 11, 2022</h1> - All Times based on New York Time Zone SCROLL DOWN TO SEE SESSION DESCRIPTIONS9:30 Virtual Coffee Hour10:00 Welcome and Orientation10:15 Keynote: The Neuroscience of CreativityDr. Evangelia Chrysikou, Drexel University11:30-12:15 Virtual Meal Break &amp; Optional Chat with Dr. Yudess &amp; Dr. Puccio regarding graduate studies12:15-1:00 Concurrent sessions (select session when you register):•	Creativity Education in the American &amp; East Asian Contexts•	Mindful Agility - Finding Balance•	Imagination &amp; Creativity: Connections, Strategies, and Tools of Innovation AND How to Use Creativity to Promote Well-Being in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods1:00-1:15 break1:15-2:00 Concurrent sessions (select session when you register):•	A Mindset Shift: Igniting Organizational Creativity through the Pandemic and Beyond•	Fueling Creativity in Education: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice•	Micro-moments: Innovative Creativity, Health and Well-Being Applications in the Classroom•	Play Forward: The Improvisational Mindset2:00-2:15 Close Conference<h3>After Hours (Post Conference Session)</h3>2:30-3:30 Department &amp; Center Updates with the FacultyNote: We plan to record all concurrent sessions which will be made available to the community in the future. <h1>Registration Instructions </h1>We wish to involve as many community members as possible in the virtual CEE event. With that goal in mind, there is no admission fee; however, the Department is accepting donations. Due to the negative impact of COVID-19 on our institutional budget, all Departments have had their operating budgets frozen (with only essential expenses being approved). All donations will go directly to the Creativity and Change Leadership Department and will be used to offset expenses associated with hosting the conference and for activities related to the academic mission of the Department. Donations are not refundable. {Note: if donors prefer, they can select to have their donation go to support students through scholarships}When you click the Green “Register” button you will be brought to the ticket page. There you can select General Admission Free Participation, indicating the number of tickets you need (1 ticket) or you can choose, if you are in a position to do so, to make a donation. Do not choose both, choose one or the other (General Admission Free Participation or Donation). If you can donate, we thank you. All donors will receive an acknowledgement from Buffalo State of their donation for tax purposes (Note: Eventbrite has a 2.5% service fee that will be deducted from the amount you give). After you select your ticket, you will be asked a series of questions related to the breakout sessions. Please complete all information as it will help us prepare the Zoom breakouts. If you want to want to make a donation, please use the website link rather than the Eventbrite app on your iPhone or iPad. Donation tickets will not appear on your iPhone or iPad.

<h1>CEE Keynote, March 10, 2022</h1><h2>Creativity and the Possible: On the Cusp of a New Paradigm</h2><h2>Dr. Vlad Glăveanu, Webster University</h2>Vlad Glăveanu, PhD, is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology and Counselling at Webster University Geneva, Associate Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology (SLATE), University of Bergen, Norway, Director of the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation (WCCI) and President of the Possibility Studies Network (PSN). His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, and human possibility. He edited the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture (2016) and the Oxford Creativity Reader (2018), co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017), authored The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Wonder: The Extraordinary Power of an Ordinary Experience (Bloomsbury, 2020), as well as more than 200 articles and book chapters in these areas. He is the editor of an upcoming Sage journal, 'Possibility Studies and Society', and of a book series, the 'Cambridge Series in Possibility Studies’.

<h1>CEE Keynote, March 11, 2022</h1><h2>Creativity In and Out of (Cognitive) Control</h2><h2>Dr. Evangelia Chrysikou, Drexel University</h2>Dr. Evangelia G. Chrysikou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University, the Director of the Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences PhD Program, and the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from Temple University, where she also completed a year-long postdoctoral appointment in cognitive neuropsychology, followed by postdoctoral training at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Chrysikou uses cognitive neuroscience methods, especially functional brain imaging and noninvasive electric brain stimulation, to study cognitive flexibility and creative thinking and problem solving, as well as the implications of such flexibility for theories of creativity, semantic knowledge organization, and cognitive control.

<h1>CEE Breakout Session Descriptions for March 10, 2022</h1>Carol Thaler and Trisha Brown 12:15-1pm, March 10, 2022Biology as a Source of Creative Energy Through the lens of biomimicry or, innovation inspired by nature, this session will reveal biology as a source to find unique, creative ideas for any design challenge. The session will describe what biomimicry is, provide examples of where it has been used, allow participants to experience the thought processes involved and show how innovation through biomimicry can be practiced. Participants in this session are asked to bring something from nature for use in a warm-up activity.Roger Firestien 12:15-1pm, March 10, 2022What you think is the problem is NOT the problem You know the feeling.  You are facing down a tough problem. You think you know what the problem is. You go to work. You come up with some good solutions.  But after hours of work and money spent, it hits you.  Right in your gut! You solved the wrong problem.  Don’t be too hard on yourself.  We have all done this.  In fact, ninety nine percent of the time what we THINK is the problem is actually NOT the problem.  This session is based on Dr. Firestien’s new book, What you think is the problem is NOT the problem, scheduled to be released in early 2023. Using case studies from the book, personal experience from 40 years in the creativity field, and research on problem clarification and the first instinct fallacy, you will experience how to use the language of creativity to reveal the real problem. Randah Taher 12:15-1pm, March 10, 2022Ways of an Innovation Culture Designer A look into the anatomy of organizations and the role of mavericks and intrapreneurs in shaping and nurturing a culture of innovation. andBeth Slazak &amp; Missy Carvin 12:15-1pm, March 10, 2022ARG! Using Creativity to Negotiate Ambiguity It’s been quite a time lately. Even though Tolerance of Ambiguity is a trademark of the creative mindset, there is a tipping point for many people. This session is an interactive session that provides attendees with tools that help them move through all this uncertainty. The anxiety-provoking part of ambiguity is that it can trigger our fight or flight or freeze response. We get stuck and overwhelmed. What this session can do is help people regain control and confidence by identifying that they are experiencing ambiguity or uncertainty, and then equipping them with a tool that gives them a process for moving through that uncertainty. They come out the other side with a plan to move forward with comfort and confidence -- that they can deploy when faced with uncertainty again. Christine Boyko-Head &amp; Carine Chisu 12:15-1pm, March 10, 2022Whether you are a learner, educator, facilitator, or administrator, risk and ritual has taken on new dimensions in our lives. Everyone has had to adapt to a new learning &amp; teaching environment, be it online or face2face. This workshop uses entrepreneurial thinking and 3D-Briefing to ritualize learning in order to minimize the familiar, maximize the diverse and re-position risk as opportunity. Through creative, experiential participation, you will discover how to leap toward ritualized learning in a way that makes any challenge worth the risk and any activity a deep learning experience. At the end of the session participants will be able to - identify the levels of risk and liminal play in their environment - explore the interfacing of risk, play, and ritual to opportunity- apply a ritualized learning framework to any situationJosh Mahaney 1:15-2pm, March 10, 2022How Employees Can Gain Commitment for Their Ideas Sometimes champions are needed in organizations to push ideas toward the new product development process. My paper and presentation draw from the issue-selling literature and posit that champions, who look for commitment for their ideas, can gain their colleagues’ support by asking them to contribute to the ideas. Using lab experiments, I show that colleagues who contribute to champions’ ideas develop psychological ownership for them and are more likely to commit to them. While it may be helpful for champions to gain commitment in this way, I also show some evidence incongruent with prior research findings that colleagues who contribute to idea champions’ narrative ideas are paradoxically less committed to them compared to non-narrative ones. Michael Ackerbauer, 1:15-2pm, March 10, 2022Understanding the Relationship between Creative Preference and Social Style BehaviorAn overview of a study that examined the relationship between the creative problem-solving preferences of clarification, ideation, development, and implementation, and the social style behaviors of assertiveness, responsiveness, and versatility. Analysis was conducted by administering the FourSight Thinking Profile and Social Style Self-Perception Profile instruments to 199 participants across a variety of social networks. Relationships were examined between the Assertiveness and Responsiveness scales from the Social Styles instrument and the Clarification, Ideation, Development, and Implementation scales) from the FourSight instrument. Positive relationships exist between Ideation and Responsiveness, as well as Implementation and Assertiveness. Negative relationships were found to exist between Clarification and both Assertiveness and Responsiveness, and between Development preference and Responsiveness. Analyses controlling for Social Desirability bias found that all four FourSight scales are positively related to Versatility. Results will be discussed in terms of implications for research and the practice of teamwork. Gerard Puccio &amp; Matei Schwartz 1:15-2pm, March 10, 2022Organizational CreativityInterest in organizational creativity has boomed in recent years. Initially organizational creativity was linked to innovation. More recently, research has examined the various ways in which organizational creativity promotes employee benefits. Of particular interest has been employee well-being. The purpose of this presentation is to examine the recent shift in organizational creativity from organization-oriented outcomes to human-centered outcomes. Will Fogarty &amp; Daniela Plattner 1:15-2pm, March 10, 2022Playstorming™: The Future of BrainstormingCome test the most recent prototype of the Playstorming™ technology, a next-generation productivity tool for idea development. Playstorming v1 is designed to maximize asynchronous collaboration before and after meetings through guided audio journeys and transcription. Built upon the architecture of Creative Problem Solving as well as Play-Based Learning, Playstorming™ goes beyond traditional cognitive problem-solving models by utilizing the science of flow, movement, and music. Workshop presenters will require that all attendees sign a non-disclosure agreement prior to attending this session. During the workshop, attendees will move through a series of fun interactive activities and provide feedback regarding its efficacy and usability.

<h1>CEE Breakout Session Descriptions for March 11, 2022</h1>Trevor Tomion, 12:15-1pm, March 11, 2022A Call for Access &amp; FulfillmentThis presentation will focus on the topic of access. Most of the success I’ve experienced has been reliant on having access to knowledge, skills and experience, and I believe that is true for many others. As access and inclusion are core values at my new company, Common Leaders, I’d like to present what I’ve found, what I’m doing and some things for participants to try or implement. The information presented will include academic and practical definitions of access; brief probing into the concept of fulfilment; statistics to provide an understanding of gaps in access; experience I’ve had translating academic topics to relatively uneducated groups of people; tools &amp; methods that I’ve found successful for improving access; and engagement with participants at several reflection points throughout the presentation. The presentation will cover some keywords &amp; topics that include access; inclusion; leadership; creativity; family; community; career; education; race; income; equality; equity; social media; digital media; podcasting; online trainings; live online events; popular culture; adult learning; learner engagement; start-ups; small businesses.Mary Pei, Richard Weisenhoff, Veronique Gugliucciello, &amp; Jonathan Plucker, 12:15-1pm, March 11, 2022Creativity Education in the American and East Asian Contexts Dr. Jonathan Plucker created a rigorous creativity seminar for graduate students that increases self-awareness of their creativity, nurtures sensitivity to others’ creative cognition and expression, and targets often under-developed skills such as time management and creative articulation. Originally taught to students in the Gifted Education program, Dr. Plucker and Ms. Mary Pei modified the course to serve the Creative and Innovation track of the International Teaching and Global Leadership (ITGL) program at the Johns Hopkins School of Education. Headed by Dr. Richard Weisenhoff and Ms. Veronique Gugliucellio, ITGL is a recently created master’s program that uses courses in creativity, innovation, leadership, and entrepreneurship - coupled with experiential learning and mentoring - to nurture the next generation of creative and innovative leaders. This presentation includes key points about creativity education, practice exercises and practical examples that practitioners and leaders can bring to their workplaces, and nuggets of advice about translating these practices across contexts. The presenters will also discuss modifications made during the COVID-19 pandemic when the course was moved to a virtual format. This presentation involves audience response and takes them on a journey, similar to the one the graduate students experience, to understanding and exploring their creativity. Michael Ackerbauer, 12:15-1pm, March 11, 2022Mindful Agility -Finding Balance Two recent themes in professional development are agility and mindfulness. One is about understanding the dynamic nature of client service in turbulent times. The other speaks to our individual well-being and proactive approach to helping others thrive in uncertainty as they deal with change. This highly interactive session explores the complementary relationship between agility and mindfulness that move teams from collaboration to co-creation. During this session we will explore the role of complexity in knowledge work and discover how the creative problem-solving process facilitates agile and design thinking practices to foster creative thinking. Bernie Murray, 12:15-1pm, March 11, 2022Imagination and Creativity: Connections, Strategies and Tools for Innovation Do you know how to foster imagination? This presentation focuses on strategies and tools that nurture the imagination and how that influences creativity. Conceptual ideas represent imaginary products, designs, or services that are developed later in time. The concepts do not use our sensory skills. They are mental ideas and images, analogies, or narratives that do not exist. Imagination is the starting point for our creativity that is developed through the products or services. Imagination assessment tools and drawings will be discussed. ANDDiego Rey Sun Han, 12:15-1pm, March 11, 2022How to use creativity to promote well-being in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Latin America 1. Meditation where we imagine together with the participants about the environment of violence, drugs, gangs and lack of opportunities in which millions of children and young people live in Latam. 2. Show the context in which the young people we work with life. 3. Present the methodology and pillars that we work in the grassroots NGO Alto Peru to promote well-being in children and young people living in vulnerable situations. Our methodology combines play, contact with nature and sport to enhance socio-emotional skills such as stress management, collaboration and healthy conflict management —our methodology is supported in two pillars: adult caregivers and safe spaces. 4. Space for reflection and learning. I will play a lot with trigger questions that promote reflection and questioning during the presentation. https://www.altoperu.org/ Kim Hawkins and Bernie Murray, 1:15-2pm, March 11, 2022Crisis Creativity Shifts Popular CultureRecently, the pandemic crisis changed daily routines, work schedules and locations, and how people interacted with each other. We navigated through this global crisis by changing our ideas, perspectives, and attitudes in order to survive and have some degree of safety and normalcy. 
Creative ideas and attitudes emerged in all industries that modified the way that products were developed, maintained, and consumed. New and innovative products or services were accepted in the marketplace. This presentation examines cultural processes, products, and creative ways of thinking in music, education, dance, film, fashion, and other artistic platforms. 
Laura Barbero Switalski &amp; Marysia Czarski, 1:15-2pm, March 11, 2022A Mindset Shift. Igniting Organizational Creativity Through the Pandemic and BeyondThe initial fuel for creativity during the pandemic was led by necessity. The old adage “necessity is the mother of invention” was true. However, as we complete the second year of the rollercoaster of COVID, we have found that when fully embraced, there are many aspects of the pandemic’s impact that have continued to fuel the possibility of enhanced organizational creativity. Our session will expand upon the research we conducted in 2020 and the impact of the pandemic on organizational creativity (a 2021 CEE Session) and share the insights and themes that have emerged from our client work, and how we’ve seen a significant mindset shift occur within the ranks of mid-level leadership. We define mindset as an established set of attitudes and beliefs, which are rooted in our experience, education and culture, that have an impact on how we feel, what we think, and what we do. As such, a mindset encompasses both cognitive and affective dimensions. Specifically, we will share how the use of the FourSight profile and Polaritiy Thinking within the Creative Change Model built an energizing platform for leaders to have authentic conversations about empathy for their teams, their customers and their organization. Through small team discussions we will share the insights that emerged in our work about mindset shift, the implications for organizational creativity and identify the lessons learned to take it forward. Matthew Worwood &amp; Cyndi Burnett, 1:15-2pm, March 11, 2022Fueling Creativity in Education: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice Dr. Matthew Worwood and Dr. Cyndi Burnett launched the Fueling Creativity podcast to bridge the gap between research and practice. As co-hosts, Cyndi and Matthew have conducted over 30 interviews with leading creativity researchers, educational administrators, industry practitioners, and award-winning teachers. This interactive presentation will showcase prominent themes from the show, including notable soundbites to facilitate short discussions on creativity tips for teaching and learning. William Fogarty &amp; Jeremy Brewster, 1:15-2pm, March 11, 2022Micro-moments: Innovative Creativity, Health and Well-Being Applications in the Classroom Explore the science of applied creativity and wellness facilitation in the context of a personal narrative unit developed and delivered for 6th graders at Eagle Hill Middle School in Syracuse New York. This will be an experiential session combining research, thought leadership, and expressive art creation. Bring a pen and paper and get ready to dive into Micro-moments: A facilitative Creativity, Health, and Well-Being experience, brought to you by William Fogarty and Jeremy Brewster of the Institute for Myanmar United. Jane Fischer, 1:15-2pm, March 11, 2022Play Forward: The Improvisational Mindset The concept and practice of “Yes, And” is often used with divergent thinking principles. “Yes, And” is also a guiding mantra of improvisation (“improv”). How might you boost an improvisational mindset that embraces “Yes, And” as well as other playful, imaginative, and collaborative improv tenets in your creative practices? In this highly interactive (and fun) session, participants will understand the value of an improvisational mindset approach and how it connects to creative thinking and problem solving.

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