Creative Aging, Retirement, Transitions and Purpose Among Topics at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) 2005
From a weeklong, in-depth program on “Creativity in the Third Age” to keynote and featured presenters on creativity and learning in transitions and retirement, the 51st Annual Creative Problem Solving Institute will explore aspects of aging and creativity in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 26-July 1. Produced by the Creative Education Foundation (CEF), CPSI is the longest-running creativity event in the world, focused on applied imagination and creativity. Details are available at www.cpsiconference.com.
(PRWEB) April 4, 2005 -- World’s longest-running creativity conference
explores why “Creativity Matters” in St. Paul, Minnesota, from June 26 to July
1, 2005.
From a weeklong, in-depth program on “Creativity in the Third
Age” to keynote and featured presenters on creativity and learning in
transitions and retirement, the 51st Annual Creative Problem Solving Institute
will explore aspects of aging and creativity in St. Paul, Minnesota, June
26-July 1. Produced by the Creative Education Foundation (CEF), CPSI is the
longest-running creativity event in the world, focused on applied imagination
and creativity. Details are available at www.cpsiconference.com.
“It’s no
secret that people are living longer and working longer,” says CEF General
Manager Steven Dahlberg. “77 million aging baby boomers present both a need for
creativity, as well as new opportunities for applying creativity to later-life
transitions. ‘Creative aging’ deals with topics such as engagement in meaningful
activity, flourishing, well-being, longevity, mental fitness and positive
aging.
“CPSI 2005 will provide a variety of ways to
explore how creativity can be personally applied to your own life as you face
retirement from your career, as well as how to professionally approach ideas of
creative aging with older communities in which you work and
live.”
CPSI 2005 provides participants with several
opportunities to learn and explore issues around creative aging and
retirement:
- Keynoter Mary Catherine Bateson on being “Willing to Learn:
Living Curious, Ambiguous and Imaginative Lives.” Bateson is an anthropologist,
educator and author of “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and
Gregory Bateson” and “Composing a Life.” She will expand on her ideas about life
as an improvisatory art and share why a lifelong willingness to learn can lead
to a creative, flourishing life - at any age.
- Featured presenter Richard
Leider on “Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Creating the Second Half of Your
Life on Purpose.” Leider, author of “The Power of Purpose,” looks at who the
“new elders” are and how they are crafting the second half of their life on
purpose. Leider will help participants explore questions and answers to: Who am
I? Where do I belong? What do I care about? What is my purpose?
- Featured
presenter Judith Salerno on “Vital Visionaries: Creativity, Aging and Health.”
Salerno is deputy director at the National Institute on Aging. She has supported
NIA-funded research into overcoming stereotypes about aging, including looking
at how late life can be a period of great fulfillment and creativity. Salerno
will share details about one such study in which first-year medical students and
healthy older people successfully participated in a four-part art journey
together to improve communication and understanding.
- The “Creativity in the
Third Age: Finding Purpose in Transition, Retirement and Aging” program provides
a weeklong excursion into creating a frame for aging and integrating creativity
and purpose into life transitions. This program is led by the Center for Third
Age Leadership’s William Idol, Nancy Cosgriff and Ronn Williamson, and Nancy
Wilson of Northern Power Systems.
- Additional session topics on creative
aging include cognitive fitness for seniors, creative expression in the golden
years, coaching for creative third agers, and finding grace at the center in the
mature years.
In support of creative aging
programming, CPSI 2005 is pleased to have the partnership of the Vital Aging
Network, Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality, and the Center for Third Age
Leadership.
CPSI 2005 offers additional programs
covering creative thinking and problem solving in a diversity of topics.
Additional featured presenters include economist and author Richard Florida,
Minneapolis City Council Member Don Samuels, the Guthrie Theater’s Joe Dowling,
retired FBI agent Coleen Rowley, Toyota's head of training Mike Morrison, Intel
anthropologist Genevieve Bell, and author Efiong Etuk. Complete information
about the conference can be found online at www.cpsiconference.com or
by phoning 800-447-2774 or 413-559-6614.
As the centre
for Applied Imagination, CEF helps individuals, organizations and communities
transform themselves as they confront real-world challenges. Publisher of the
Journal of Creative Behavior, CEF is a membership organization of practitioners
in the field of creativity theory and practice. CEF is an independent, nonprofit
organization supported primarily by grants and contributions from foundations,
corporations and individuals. CEF is strictly nonpartisan and takes no
institutional positions on pending legislation. For information about the
Creative Education Foundation, visit www.creativeeducationfoundation.org.
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