Creativity Seminar: The Benefits of Structure and Constraints

"You can't improvise on nothing, man.

You got to improvise on something."

— Charles Mingus

About

The Creativity Seminar teaches individuals, teams and companies new ways to develop ideas and solve problems.

It offers techniques and tools that make the creative process easier and more productive. Creativity is a skill — which can be developed, practiced and improved.

Through these interactive presentations, Sean Kelly examines famous ideas and inventions by others, and shares examples from 35 years of his own creative work to show how to generate breakthrough solutions to challenging assignments.

Corporations, media companies, universities and arts organizations have benefited from these inspiring lectures and workshops that stimulate the imagination and spark innovation.

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Sean Kelly's Seminar Topics Include:

WHAT ARE VISUAL THINKING AND DESIGN THINKING?

BLOCKING THOSE

CREATIVE BLOCKS

ARISTOTLE’S CATEGORIES

USES OF IMPROV

THEATER EXERCISES

EDISON’S NAPS

THE NEUROBIOLOGY

OF CREATIVITY

WHAT BUSINESS

LEADERS CAN LEARN

FROM ARTISTS

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

AND OPTIMUM SOLUTIONS

DEDUCTIVE LOGIC

HOW THE BRAIN

PROCESSES VISUAL

INFORMATION

EDWARD DE BONO AND

LATERAL THINKING

DEADLINES, PRESSURE

AND CREATIVITY

DECIDING TO MAKE

A DECISION

DISRUPTIVE THINKING

THE BENEFITS OF FAILURE

GAME THEORY AND

PROBLEM SOLVING

HOW CREATIVITY AND

INNOVATION DIFFER

CONNOTATIONS AND

DENOTATIONS OF IMAGES

NATURE, NURTURE

OR NOT SURE?

INDIVIDUAL VS.

TEAM CREATIVITY

PLACES FOR INVENTING

SERIOUS USES

OF HUMOR

THAT “EUREKA” MOMENT

For more information on topics in Sean Kelly's Creativity Seminar: email.

CLIENTS

CORPORATE CLIENTS INCLUDE:

Aetna

American Express

AT&T

Cisco

Georgia-Pacific

Humana

IBM

Macy's

McGraw-Hill

NBC Universal

Nickelodeon

Nielsen Media Research

Omnicom Group

Razorfish

Scholastic Inc.

Time Warner

The Smithsonian Institution

Vera Wang

Viacom

NEWSPAPERS

The Boston Globe

The Chicago Tribune

The Christian Science
Monitor

The Hartford Courant

The Los Angeles Times

The Miami Herald

The New York Times

The Wall Street Journal

The Washington Post

MAGAZINES

The Atlantic

Billboard

Businessweek

Congressional Quarterly

Entertainment Weekly

Esquire

Forbes

Fortune

Harvard Business Review

Huffington Post

Kiplinger's

Newsweek

New York

Premiere

Rolling Stone

Saveur

Smithsonian

This Old House

U.S. News & World Report

Variety

The Washingtonian

Wired

Worth

TWEETS

"Eureka" moments are a myth. http://ow.ly/qAgOZ How the world's most creative people
get their ideas.

Great ideas are right in front of us. We just have to learn to see them. http://ow.ly/cCM2C

Scientists and artists are both innovative – how they work just looks different. http://risd.cc/NnVToV

Why Great Ideas Get Rejected: http://bit.ly/Q3KACg Departing from status quo makes people uncomfortable.

Know what options D, E and F look like. http://risd.cc/NFnROE Making Ideas Happen Fast

Right brain vs. left. Creative thinking vs. critical. And intuition vs. intellect http://j.mp/PCxlbk by Henri Bergson

Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking: http://bit.ly/TPYQEa

Curiosity --> Imagination --> Innovation. http://trib.al/gygiVhG But why is curiosity unwelcome in corporations?

Don't be 1st, be 3rd. http://ow.ly/5mhzd It's not the innovators — but the tweakers — who improve things.

Science and math won't improve U.S. job prospects. But creativity will. http://ow.ly/jfs7x @SciAm

Recognize & embrace contradictions. RT @TeresaAmabile Paradoxes Stimulate Creativity: http://bit.ly/mwFuHA

What makes a place creative? "..optimism, contagious inspiration and a culture of curiosity.." http://bit.ly/RiuOcq @NEAarts #placemaking

The Influencer Virus. http://www.influencersfilm.com How Trends & Creativity Become Contagious.

"Creativity is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status." ~ @SirKenRobinson

What It Takes To Innovate: Wrong-Thinking, Tinkering and Intuiting: http://bit.ly/Hic2Nm

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."— John Cage

Intuitive, interdisciplinary innovators. RT @johnmaeda What entrepreneurs can
learn from artists. http://risd.cc/106S2Xx

Connecting All The Dots: To understand is to
perceive patterns http://ow.ly/5U4xD

Principles of Innovation: Think big, start small, fail quickly, scale fast. http://bit.ly/g6EdMr

It's all about the "why," not the "how" or "what." http://ow.ly/alPPc

Studies have shown that creativity is close to 80% learned and acquired. http://ow.ly/JHjL

Content, Context, Conduit: It’s Not Who You Know, But Where You Know http://sto.ly/gWi04c

Brain plasticity: Helps us adapt to environment, aiding creativity: http://ow.ly/fOivi