Sponsored by Stanford University's Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing (AIM)
June 13-16, 2000
Location: Stanford University campus, Stanford, CA
This hands-on workshop will use personal exercises, projects and group process
techniques to give the participants new insights into techniques aimed at
fostering creativity and effectiveness in individuals and groups. The
workshop will emphasize experiential tools and techniques to help
participants continually evolve by upgrading their problem solving and
communication abilities.
The objective is for participants to view their job as a dynamic problem
solving activity, and not as rigidly defined by their habitual practices.
This workshop provides a set of experiences which make the participants
aware of their untapped potential for creativity in regard to their work
and their lives. It will provide an environment in which barriers to
participants' successful professional growth can be directly confronted and
removed.
The workshop's aim is for each participant to develop lasting new
attitudes of personal responsibility and the intention to be a highly
successful professional. The tools learned in the workshop provide for
continued growth and problem solving after the participants have returned
to their companies.
The workshop is suitable for anyone interested and willing to take
time-out of their work life to gain insights into the greater creative
potential they can bring to their job and life. It is equally suitable for
beginners through seasoned veterans.
e-mail to: roth@robotics.stanford.edu;
or fax: (650) 723-3521 to the attention of the Creativity Workshop.
Registration cut off date: Workshop size is limited, places will be
allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
Fee: The tuition is $2,100 (the tuition is waived for AIM partner
attendees). Applications with $100* deposit are required by April 15,
2000. Balance of tuition is due by May 15, 2000*.
Agenda: Dates: June 13-June 16, 2000. (The workshop starts at 5:30 PM
on June 13 and ends at noon on June 16.)
Free transportation is available between the hotel and the workshop site.
Meals can be purchased at several convenient locations on the Stanford campus.
Dinner on June 13 is included free of charge to all participants.
*AIM partner attendees must register but do not need to pay the deposit or tuition fee.
All others should send their payments made out to the "Creativity
Workshop" to the following address:
Description:
The workshop is organized and led by Professors
Rolf Faste
and
Bernard
Roth.
Rolf Faste is the Director of the Product Design Program at Stanford
University. He has several patents in the medical arena and his primary
academic concern is invention and innovation, especially regarding
needfinding. For the past ten years he has exploring the role of the
body/mind in technical and aesthetic creativity. Bernard Roth has published
over 150 research papers in the areas of design, kinematics and robotics,
and has received many awards for both his teaching and research. He serves
as an industrial and government consultant, is a director of several
corporations, and has held top leadership positions in several international
professional societies. He is the organizer of workshops on personal
effectiveness.
Together, Faste and Roth have taught creativity workshops to over 200
individuals during the past dozen years.
Who should attend:
To Register:
Participants are required to
commit to attend full-time according to the following schedule:
Tuesday, June 13, 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Wednesday, June 14, 9 AM - noon, 1:30 PM -6 PM, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Thursday, June 15, 9 AM - noon, 1:30 PM - 6 PM, 7:30 PM - 11 PM
Friday, June 16, 9 AM - noon.
A block of rooms has been reserved for the participants at the Sheraton
Palo Alto Hotel located at 625 El Camino Real, directly opposite the
Stanford University campus, they will be held until May 13, 2000.
Participants should make their own arrangement with the hotel. The special
workshop rate is $189/night. To reserve phone: (800) 874-3516 (from California)
or (650) 328-2800, and say you are with the "Creativity and problem
solving" conference.
Creativity Workshop
Design Division
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4021