[Neurons] AINS and the Creativity Workshop

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From: L. Michael Hall

re: The first Creativity and Innovation Workshop

And the Launching of the Australian Institute of Neuro-Semantics

June 4, 2008



The Occasion 

This past weekend the pioneering trainers of the AINS (Australian Institute of Neuro-Semantics) - Steve Hodgson, Rosie Davoli, and Martin Urban hosted the first workshop on Creativity and Innovation. And they did it as a fund-raiser for the Institute which they launched in Australia with this event. So, a big thanks to Rosie, Steve, and Martin for their vision, their commitment, their team spirit, and their courage in this successful launch of the AINS.

The Event 

This workshop, the second in a series of Self-Actualization Workshops, differs significantly from the first one. The Ultimate Self-Actualization Workshop, the first self-actualization workshop, focuses on the individual and personal development, the second one focuses a creative product what we actualize. 

The first is about unleashing potentials. It is about the process of how unleashing works, and how to facilitate it through our mental construct where we create meaning, the crucible as a holistic change model for unleashing old meanings, and the zone for synergizing our meanings with our performances. That's the content of the first Self-Actualization Workshop (which other Neuro-Semantic Trainers are now running around the world).

This second workshop isn't so much about the personal development as it is about creativity and business. In it we first focus on being and becoming creative -and increasing that creativity within ourselves. The design is to identify and unleash more of our creative potential and then conduct the kind of conversations that will unleash creative solutions. How do we do that? W do that through three conversations. We do that through the dance between a well-formed problem, a well-formed outcome, and a well-formed solution.

The focus in this is on the skills and competencies for facilitating high quality solutions and understanding how to embrace and enter into a problem. In the process problems dissolve, problems explode, and problems transform. And, given that the job of leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, business owners, consultants, coaches, etc. involves finding, defining, and solving problems- creative problem-solving is a core business competence. And all of that leads up to the final conversation- the innovation conversation that takes creativity to market.

The People

At the AINS launch we had an exceptionally talented and wonderful group of people who came from Australia, New Zealand, Mayalasia, and Indonesia. We had a highly creative group who brought so many skills and competencies and who are truly passionate in actualizing their own creativity and those of others. As a first training, I learned a lot from the feedback and have been using and integrating that feedback as I refine the training manual.

What is Creativity and Innovation Workshop about? Several told me that Day 2 gave them new models for a problem-solving coaching conversation. Other told me that it all felt like leadership development; and yet others said that it was a sales model! Several Meta-Coaches recognized the internal structure of Challenger and Awakener and that it fleshed out in much more detail the axis of motivation.

The Title and Theme

I'm not sure if the title, Creativity and Innovation Workshop will continue to be used for this training. Joe Scott suggested, "The Real Problem of Business" since the heart of the training is about the problem of identifying, addressing, and creatively solving problems. Regardless of that, various trainers will be using the material and repackaging it in a variety of ways. Colin Cox and Lena Gray will be doing so this week in a Corporate context. And others already have sold the Creativity and Innovation Workshop and will be presenting it within the next month or two.

Discoveries and Reflections

With Creativity and Innovation I have a vision that it will give Neuro-Semantics and Neuro-Semanticists a more focused strategy for creating new things and bringing them to market. Martin Urban discovered that by sharing the developments he has been working on regarding "Values" with businesses and leaders, his creativity and the Values model he's been innovating grew and expanded. I also found out something I didn't know- that he was working on that! And I can now (as I am here) spread the word about what he's doing. And that encourages collaboration and a more cooperative spirit.

In Neuro-Semantics, there's no need to hold our creative ideas close to our chest, or protect our "IP" (intellectual property) as if it is exists in the same dimensions as Coke's secret recipe. It doesn't. That's tangible; it is a limited resource and so scarce. Ideas are not. When you share your idea, it grows. It's the way healthy creativity works, you grow your creative idea by sharing and using it with others. After all, an idea cannot be protected, copyrighted, or patented anyway-we can only do that with products. So let there be ideas-lots of ideas, creative ideas, silly ideas, a riotous play of ideas that enable us to solve new and wonderful problems.









L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Ltd., Executive Director
ISNS - International Society of Neuro-Semantics
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