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Date: Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Time: 7:00PM
Location: Caffe Capri (website)

Kelsey Ruger, of PopLabs, will be presenting “Rewinding the Clock: reawakening your childhood creativity”. Here’s a brief run-down:

Has your clock stopped? That’s a question we all ought to be asking ourselves – because sometimes the clock has stopped and we don’t know it. Most of us don’t remember the moment when as a child we discovered passion. This passion is about discovery – and discovery with all it’s freshness and excitement is the foundation of creativity.

Children have a natural tendency for discovery. They don’t have to be taught to ask questions, be creative, or think unconventionally. It just happens that way. It takes a lifetime of experience and education to take away what was given to us at birth. We race through our careers often never recognizing that creativity is as important to business as DNA is to evolution.

Explore how professional in all fields can apply creative and visual thinking skills to their work as well as why people ignore the talents that made them naturally creative as children. He will discuss the myths that people hold about creativity, why they exist and how you can overcome them.

Kelsey was recently involved with the “Got Social Media?” conference in Houston and will be presenting at South by Southwest in just a couple of weeks. You may have met him at BarCampTexas, which was hosted just across the street from Caffe Capri in Downtown Bryan.

Games and resources

Game – Befudium
Game – Pictionary
Game – Taboo
Game – Buzzwords
Game – Cranium
Game – Pop 5
Game – ThinkCube
Game – Visual Eyes
Game – Stare
Get Unstuck and Get Going
The Inner Vision Deck
KnowBrainer Toolkit
Ideo Card Deck
Think Pak
Free The Genie
Creative Whack Pack

Books

Thinking Visually: Business Applications of 14 Core Diagrams
ThinkerToy
Innovative Whackpack
Cracking Creativity
Creative Ball of Whacks
A Whack on the Side of the head
Beyond Words
Visual Thinking: Tools for mapping ideas
A Picture’s Worth 1,000 Words: A Workbook for Visual Communications
Mapping Inner Space: Learning and Teaching Visual Mapping
The Story Factor
The Art of Storytelling: Easy Steps to Presenting an Unforgettable Story
Cambridge Idioms Dictionary
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms
Webster’s New World American Idioms Handbook
Personal Brilliance

Web Sites

Visual Thinking Tools
The Doodle Association Game
Visual Thinking Art
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
The Power of Visual Thinking
Visual Thinking on Answers.com
Visual Language on Answers.com
Visual Thesaurus
Global Ideas Bank
Innovation Tools
Creative Thinking

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