Learning & connecting opportunities for business and change leaders, educators, practioners, innovators and learners.

It’s all happening at the Creative Problem Solving Institute: June 20 – 23, 2013.

A conference like no other, CPSI returns to Buffalo this year, the birthplace of brainstorming. Come for a rewarding experience to learn new techniques in creativity and innovation. The conference will take place on the University at Buffalo Campus in its newly built Greiner Hall.

This hands-on learning experience inspires you to think differently and stretch your ideas about what is possible, so you return to your professional arena armed with tools for leading creative change. Network with the world’s premier creativity leaders and innovation professionals. Share experiences with colleagues from around the world and forge friendships that will broaden your horizons.

Register today and save. The faster you act the more you’ll save! Because the first 60 people to register for the conference can save 40%.

So act now because once these discounts are taken, they’re gone! Click here to save up to $600. That’s it, it is really that easy. No coupons, no codes, no standing in line in the rain to get the deal you want.  

Check out www.cpsiconference.com for more information.

See you at CPSI 2013: Unleash the Possible.

CPSI 2013 Program Team
Kristen Peterson, Suzanne Chamberlain, Clare Dus, John Frederick, Lisa Karlin, Suzie Nussel, Steve Shama, Nathan Schwagler  

e. cpsi@cpsiconference.com
t.  508-960-0000 option 1

CEF is about to embark upon a very exciting new chapter in it’s evolving history. The 21st Century requires the next generation to think and act differently than any other generation before them. And CEF is hoping that the many people who have benefited from the use of CPS in their work are ready for the opportunity this reality provides.

What does this mean?

• To better streamline our operations and respond to the expanding needs and gaps in the creative thinking field, CEF will continue to do what it does best – training others in the fundamentals of creative thinking skills and problem solving methodology - but with a more focused strategy in the education community.
• The ‘Next Generation’ refers to young people from school age through young adulthood.
• Our focus will be on three main targets – partnering with higher education to conduct research in the creativity/innovation field, training educators who work with K–12 students, and expanding our YouthWise mission program.

• There is an increasing interest around the world in creative thinking, problem solving, and innovation as competencies that will be of crucial importance in the future. Industrial, economic ,and cultural influences all play into this.
• Educators (formal and informal) have little training and experience in addressing this need.
• Creativity is often restricted to being taught in the arts. The need to understand creative thinking and problem solving as relevant throughout the curriculum is largely unmet.

The editorial team of the Journal of Creative Behavior is delighted to welcome all readers and potential contributors to the newest venture for the journal. JCB is the original and longest-standing journal devoted specifically to work that advances our understanding of the phenomenon of creativity in the broadest sense. Since 1967 JCB has been published by the Creative Education Foundation, and the 44 issues to date contain an impressive and extensive body of knowledge about the topic. Beginning in 2012, JCB will be published by Wiley-Blackwell, bringing its wealth of experience and breath of reach in the publishing world to advance our mission.

Although JCB’s reach will greatly expand with our new Wiley-Blackwell partnership, the core mission of the journal will not change. We still aim to be the prime outlet for the highest quality and most innovative scholarship on the topic of creativity. The field of Creativity mirrors the very topic it studies. Just as creativity is complex and multifaceted, so too are the approaches to its study. There are case study, historiometric, laboratory, statistical, meta-analytic, and philosophical approaches. There are studies concerned with social, cultural, personality, developmental, motivational, emotional, cognitive, and neurophysiological factors. There are emphases on extraordinary creativity, as might be shown by noted artists, composers, scientists or inventors, and on more normative aspects of creativity inherent in how ordinary people solve the problems of everyday life, form, modify, combine and manipulate their concepts, use language in creative ways, and innovate for its own sake. There are basic research approaches directed at increasing our theoretical understanding of the phenomena, and more applied approaches examining the manifestation and enhancement of creativity in business, educational, scientific, social policy and decision-making settings in the real world. This is not an exhaustive list, but does signify the richness of the field.

Our intent is to have JCB continue to serve as a mirror of creativity and of the field itself. All approaches are welcome. Outside of relevance to the topic of creativity, the sole criterion for publication in the journal is and should be the quality of the work. We encourage and look forward to you submitting your very best and innovative work, and to sharing with you issue after issue the rich tapestry of research on creativity.

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