CREATIVITY WEEKEND at Abode of the Message
Exploring Personal, Professional and Organizational Creativity
Friday to Sunday 5-7 November, 2004

You are invited to attend THE NEXT IDEA Creativity Weekend held at The Abode of the Message, a Sufi retreat center in the Berkshires (New Lebanon N.Y.). Our philosophy is that creativity is shared by all and helps us to be all that we can be, to grow, to learn and transform to our highest self. The weekend will be a place to share and connect with others kindred spirits and share the excitement and wonder of creativity.

The weekend will be structured as a "Micro-University" with 3 concurrent sessions every hour and a half. You can select from a wide range of topics in business, personal and professional creativity. To see the sessions and leaders of the last NEXT IDEA conference at Harper's Ferry WV, click here.

Here is a sample of those sessions:

Team Building • Creative Spirituality • The Idea Fountain • Creative Journaling • The Language of Perception • The Art of Thinking • Thinking Styles - KAI • The Tao of Creativity • The Creative Side Of Conflict • Creative Metaphors • Humor and Creativity • Anti-Career • The Voice of the Drum • Facilitating Professional and Organizational Creativity • Quantum Cartography • TRIZ - Inventive Thinking • Creating Optimal Learning • Energizing Your Creative Flow

There will also be opportunities each evening for anybody to present a session ("Nite-Flights"), along with music, dancing and socializing. The weekend is a time of joy and learning in the Spirit of Creativity.

LEADERS: We invite leaders to submit a write-up for a 1.5 hour session on Personal, Professional or Organizational Creativity. Please submit via e-mail (creativityinstitute@juno.com) -- in text only, no attachments. They should be experiential in nature, in which the participants will actually have a "Creative Experience" and come away with a tangible result (please include details of what they will get from the session). The conference is not a place for selling or marketing one's services but for learning and sharing. We will need your write-ups and brief bio's (background, name, address, phone, e-mail) as soon as possible and no later than mid August. Leaders will come FREE of charge and only have to pay for their individual room and board. Leaders companion can come at half price ($75 registration).

REGISTRATION: Participant registration for the weekend is $150 (or $75 for one day). Couples get a 20% discount, $120 each or $240 for two. Please make checks payable to DEZANGER and send to:

André & Judy de Zanger
1664 3rd Ave.
New York, NY, 10128
(212) 289-8856
e-mail: creativityinstitute@juno.com

Please include your e-mail so you can receive a full program schedule via e-mail.