Events

Beautiful Oops! For Adults

Audience: All

Invest in Yourself: $25

Get Tickets for March 6th

Is the fear of failure holding you back from trying something new? What if you could reframe your missed-takes into an opportunity? What might that shift in perspective add to your life?

Our session will reconnect with your ability to play, get comfortable with the idea of taking risks, and find the opportunity that is hidden within your oops! In this interactive workshop, we will share the story of Beautiful Oops! and why we think it is an important message for adults and children alike.

We will share tools and strategies for turning your Oops! into opportunities and help you to bring this message back to your homes, classrooms, and workplaces.

Thriving After 2020: Creating a New Normal on Your Terms

Audience: All

Invest in Yourself: $25

 Get your ticket to thrive in 2021 here!

2020 was a year that few of us were prepared for. We found ourselves struggling to make decisions because so much was out of our control, and no one can predict reliably what the immediate future holds. The old normal is unlikely to return, and until the new normal emerges, we have to keep our heads above water. In this workshop, we will share simple tools and approaches to channel your resilience into finding some solid ground and navigate emotional challenges during these crazy times and beyond.

This interactive session will require you to roll your sleeves up and grapple with the gnarly challenges that 2020 has presented us with. You will learn how to:

• Plan when the future is uncertain and volatile.

• Adapt and pivot in response to a rapidly shifting situation.

• Navigate the emotions that might be hijacking you.

• Find help where you might least expect to.

Creating Space

Audience: All

Invest in Yourself: $25

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Do you wish you could plant seeds of joy and find a little breathing room while welcoming spring? Our 90-minute workshop will help you find ways to conserve your resources and grow your resilience.

Make a commitment to make space.

Join expressive arts facilitator, Melinda Ferraraccio, MA, RYT for a fun and healing micro-retreat on zoom.

Weaving Creativity into Every Strand of your Curriculum

Audience: All

Invest in Yourself: $25

Get your tickets for this event here!

Teachers frequently approach us eager and excited to bring creativity into their classrooms and homes, but they often have two pressing questions.

How do I actually do it?

How do I do it when I am already pressed for time?

Fortunately, we have numerous ideas and strategies to help you weave creative thinking into the classroom and home without adding more hours to the school day! And even better, you are likely implementing some of these in your classroom.

As a result of this interactive workshop, you will:

• Explore a creative thinking skill set to use in your classroom
• Work with your own content to integrate creativity into your classroom
• Walk away with simple strategies you can employ immediately in your classroom or home.

****All participants will receive a pdf copy of Weaving Creativity into Every Strand of Your Curriculum.

Tools, Tips, & Tricks for teaching Creative Problem Solving Virtually

Cost: $25

This workshop will be highly interactive as attendees participate in a virtual creative problem-solving facilitation session using Zoom, Mural, and Google. We will demonstrate the best practices for using those technologies and provide participants with resources they can use in their own teaching. We will also model the power of collaborating with colleagues. Educators will learn how to enhance the interactivity of their classes regardless of discipline. All of the virtual teaching strategies we will share can also be used in traditional face-to-face classrooms.

Prerequisites for Participating

• Zoom account (free version)
• Mural.co account (free educator’s version)
• Watch a short video about how we will be using Mural
• Google account (free version)
• Complete a pre-workshop questionnaire
• A reasonably fast Internet connection
• One large monitor (16 or more inches) connected to a computer with a mouse, or two separate devices with the faster & larger one connected to Mural.co

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Creating Space

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Do you wish you could find some light and a little breathing room as we head into the darkest part of 2020? Our 90-minute workshop will help you find ways to conserve resources and build resilience in times of crisis.

Join expressive arts facilitator, Melinda Ferraraccio, MA, RYT for a healing micro-retreat on zoom.

Finding Balance with Polarity Thinking

As a parent or educator, have you ever felt like you were being pulled in two different directions? It might have been a situation where you had to choose between family and friends, or perhaps between work and home, or even between time for yourself and time for others.

The dilemmas you experience are created by polarities and arise when we have to choose between two options that are equally valued and yet cannot co-exist. Polarity thinking is a method by which we can learn to find balance, and navigate the polarities that we cannot escape in our lives. By recognizing these polarities and then learning to map them out, and chart your course to find the right balance you will find yourself on the path to a more mindful and satisfying life.

In this interactive webinar, we shall use the polarity thinking approach to understand, map, and navigate polarities that include:

• Activity and Rest
• Care for self and Care for Others
• Stability and Change
• Work and Home
• Planned and Spontaneous
• Individual and Community

World Read Aloud Day

For World Read Aloud Day, February 5th, 2020, Creativity and Education presented children’s book author, Barney Saltzberg.  Barney launched his latest book, One of These is Not Like the Other to over sixty classrooms around the world using Zoom technology!

Visit our Youtube Channel to watch the video recording of the event.