BLACK FRIDAY: Register before December 8th, 2025, and get a 200€ discount (valid only for Individual Registration)
At CREA 2027, we are offering two tracks for participants to choose from each morning.
Core Programs run for 3 consecutive mornings, enabling participants to go deep into the subject matter and stay in the same group.
Immersions (NEW) are 4-hour sessions that change daily, allowing participants to curate their own learning experience.
Participants need to pre-register to 1 core program or 3 immersions, one per day.
These programs offer participants a rich experience in learning how to think and act more creatively.
Programs are targeted at skill development and specially designed.
Delivered over 3 days
6 Core Programs (4 in English and 2 in French)
Pre-registration
required
*If you have never attended, experienced or practiced Creativity Courses and/or Creative Problem Solving before, we suggest choosing Applied Creativity as your Core Program.
Delivered over 3 days
7 Core Programs (5 in English and 2 in French)
Pre-registration
required
*If you have never attended, experienced or practiced Creativity Courses and/or Creative Problem Solving before, we suggest choosing Applied Creativity as your Core Program.
Learn the fundamentals of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) to Unleash Your Creative Thinking.
Are you curious as to how to use your innate creative capabilities and how to unleash your creative thinking in solving problems? Then this program is for you!
Applied Creativity is recommended for those who are unfamiliar with the deliberate practice of creativity and CPS.
In this program, you will have an opportunity to explore and enhance your own creativity and learn the fundamentals of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) and the dynamic balance of divergent and convergent thinking that supports it. You will have opportunities to learn and practice fundamental tools and techniques that can be applied to find creative ideas and develop innovative solutions to real challenges.
Facilitators Patricia Flanagan and Anna Packham
Language: English
Explore Creative Thinking Tools to Prototype Your Future.
This year, our focus is on sharing tools that help you blend creativity and problem-solving, stretch imagination, increase resilience, and support you to drive change. Prototype your future and create extraordinary experiences for your workshops, meetings, students, family, and community.
This program is recommended for Skilled Facilitators, Consultants, Advanced Level Educators, Innovation Managers, HR & Chief Learning Officers.
Hosted by two experienced facilitators who will lead you throughout your journey, this program features a cast of CREA guest facilitators, who will give you an intimate look at the most productive tools in their creativity kits and show you how you can apply them in your daily practice. You will have the opportunity to harvest from these tools and build a prototype relevant for your work. We will present a broad range of creativity tools from an array of proven methodologies, and you will have the opportunity to experiment with these tools in a highly experiential way.
Take note that the Creative Thinking Power Tools program changes every year. Join us to enhance your personal creative thinking toolbox.
Learn the fundamentals of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) to Unleash Your Creative Thinking.
Are you curious as to how to use your innate creative capabilities and how to unleash your creative thinking in solving problems? Then this program is for you!
Applied Creativity is recommended for those who are unfamiliar with the deliberate practice of creativity and CPS.
In this program, you will have an opportunity to explore and enhance your own creativity and learn the fundamentals of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) and the dynamic balance of divergent and convergent thinking that supports it. You will have opportunities to learn and practice fundamental tools and techniques that can be applied to find creative ideas and develop innovative solutions to real challenges.
Facilitators Dorte Nielsen and Patricia Flanagan
Language: English
Explore Visual and Graphic Creative Thinking Tools to support creative thinking.
This year, our focus is on visual creative thinking tools that help you unlock imagination, curiosity, and communication in powerful new ways. You’ll explore tools inspired by Design Thinking, the Arts, graphic techniques, and creative communication.
This program is recommended for Skilled Facilitators, Consultants, Advanced Level Educators, Innovation Managers, HR & Chief Learning Officers.
No drawing or artistic skills are required. We will present a broad range of creativity tools: from cognitive to digital and intuitive tools from an array of methodologies including Design Thinking, Creative Problem Solving and other proven methods.
Hosted by two experienced facilitators who will lead you throughout your journey, this program features an all-star cast of CREA guest facilitators, who will give you an intimate look at the most productive tools in their creativity kits and show you how you can apply them on the job, in your community, and in your personal life.
The Creative Thinking Power Tools program changes every year. Join us this year to enhance your personal, visual, creative thinking toolbox.
Facilitators
Ingrid De Clercq and Branko Broekman
Language: English
Across the world, people sense that things are radically changing, and that we need a different mindset to deal effectively with the multifaceted questions we now face. As an organization you are responsible for creating the conditions to navigate this complexity, both to tackle the novelty ahead as to attract and retain the talent you need. And you can do so by building a resilient, entrepreneurial culture.
This program is recommended for leaders, educators, facilitators, consultants, project leaders, innovation managers and anyone preparing their organization, school or community to cope with our world in transition.
We will take you on a culture transition journey from A to Z. We’ll explore the shift skills that build a real growth mindset – also called Inner Development Goals, or IDGs. We’ll define the behaviors associated with it, and gradually shape the organizational culture, by aligning inner capacities, and weaving them into your processes.
In our program we’ll offer an overview of the entire change journey, and then go deep in three sessions where participants experience a part of that journey firsthand, viewing it through the personal, organisational and facilitator lens.
Facilitators Gerard J. Puccio and Dorte Nielsen
Language: English
Improving Creative Self-Awareness and Fostering Creative Collaboration
How do you naturally approach creative challenges—and what happens when life and work challenges require you to think differently? FourSight Certification offers a research-based exploration of the thinking preferences that influence how we clarify challenges, generate ideas, develop solutions, and implement change.
This program is recommended for leaders, educators, facilitators, consultants, coaches, project managers, innovation professionals, and others who help individuals and teams solve problems, navigate change, and foster creativity and innovation.
Through your own FourSight Thinking Profile, you will deepen your self-awareness and metacognition, gaining insight into why some parts of the creative process energize you while others require greater effort. This heightened awareness can help you more intentionally navigate the creative process, stretch beyond your preferences, and strengthen confidence in your own creative capabilities.
Certification transforms these personal insights into professional practice. You will learn to interpret and debrief FourSight profiles, recognize and leverage cognitive diversity, and use the FourSight framework and tools to help individuals and teams collaborate more effectively and solve complex challenges. Leave CREA not only certified to use FourSight, but with a deeper understanding of yourself as a creative thinker.
Facilitators Gerard J. Puccio and Branko Broekman
Language: English
In a rapidly changing world filled with multifaceted, ambiguous challenges, creativity has emerged as the most essential leadership skill. Going beyond just having good ideas, creative leadership is a dynamic process of personal development that in turn uplifts the creative capacities of others. This dynamic process drives innovation, and fosters resilient, flexible systems that know how to adapt.
This program takes you on a transformative learning journey into the essence of Creative Leadership, grounded in decades of research and honed through professional practice. You’ll experience a powerful developmental framework that progresses through three stages:
Together, we will explore how creative leaders navigate uncertainty to guide groups toward novel and valuable outcomes. We’ll dive into how to build inclusive climates for innovation, and how to deliberately engage imagination with your team. This hands-on program integrates cutting-edge theory with applied methods.
Facilitators Anna Packham and Juliana Sanchez Trujillo
Language: English
Develop the Skills for Guiding Groups Effectively
Facilitation has grown as a popular practice for conducting workshops, meetings, ideation sessions and other group sessions to achieve desired objectives. When facilitation is done well, it looks easy. Yet it is based on some key practices that include: clarifying session goals, formulating clear objectives, creating a design, preparing materials and the environment, conducting the session and ensuring effective results. In particular, the skilled facilitator understands when to provide direction and structure and when to encourage the group to practice its own leadership.
This program is designed for consultants, educators, coaches, trainers, managers and those in positions of leadership at any level.
This program will explore these elements that come together to have a positive impact. Participants will have an opportunity to develop their own facilitation designs and to practice their facilitation skills. We will also explore tools and techniques that can be used in-person, on-line or as a hybrid approach to facilitate productive and highly engaging sessions.
Facilitators Maggie Dugan and Sophie Tversky
Language: English
Bridging barriers in a fragmented world
The world feels more divided than ever, separated by silos, distance, disinformation and polarisation. But what if we could work across those divides, not just to get along, but to create something extraordinary? That’s the promise of driving cutting-edge, meaningful collaboration.
We will explore what it takes to truly leverage diversity of thinking, create a culture of participative safety and navigate conflicts. Now more than ever, we need to tap into our differences and foster creative friction and debate to go beyond the status quo. This is what authentic collaboration requires in an age of fragmentation.
This program is intended for those in leadership positions at any level (executives, managers, community leaders) or those driving change initiatives (facilitators, consultants). It is recommended that you have a baseline knowledge of Creative Problem Solving.
In this program we’ll share experiences, test practical tools, and tap into the collective intelligence of the group. We’ll look honestly at the tensions, opportunities, and paradoxes that sit at the heart of working together and learn how to turn them into fuel for authentic creativity and progress. We’ll do this by drawing upon interdisciplinary approaches and frameworks including Co-design, Creative Problem Solving, Polarity Thinking™ and Collective Intelligence.
You’ll leave with fresh and deeper perspectives, a collaboration tool kit, and the confidence to spark and sustain collaboration in your organisation, community, and beyond.
Facilitateurs Christine Bout de l’An et Patrice Henry
Langue: Français
Dépassez vos habitudes et oser créer autrement.
Vous connaissez bien le processus créatif et pourtant vous constatez que vous utilisez trop souvent les mêmes techniques créatives. Vous souhaitez dépasser ces routines pour retrouver un nouveau souffle dans votre pratique de la créativité.
Venez expérimenter la créativité dans tous ses états afin d’explorer ces 3 questions clés :
Ce programme vous permettra d’explorer d’autres manières de faire grâce à de nouvelles techniques et de retrouver cette énergie créative. Grâce au partage avec les animateurs et avec le groupe, vous prendrez le temps de requestionner vos cas pratiques et de réinventer vos pratiques créatives.
Objectifs du programme – Vous pourrez :
Facilitator Allison Fleetwood
Language: English
Creativity isn’t just something we think, it’s something we do, together, with our whole bodies. In this experiential session, participants engage in movement-based exercises and team-building activities drawn from contemporary theatre practice to build observation, adaptability, problem-solving, and collaboration. Through physical challenges and structured reflection, participants discover how these artistic processes translate directly into classrooms, workplaces, and leadership settings. No performance experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to move. Participants leave with practical tools they can adapt to their own contexts for building creativity and collaboration.
Facilitator Marjolein Hutting
Language: English
What does your group need right now and what can you do to get them there? Great facilitation is not just about choosing the right activity. It is about getting people into the right mindset to connect, explore, create, focus or act. This fast-paced, hands-on workshop lets you experience fresh facilitation activities, playful interventions and techniques inspired by applied improvisation. We’ll explore what they do to a group, when to use them and why they work. Come ready to play and experiment and leave with a backpack full of fresh ideas for your next session.
Facilitator Andrea Edmondson
Language: English
Most leaders and facilitators have learned to perform steadiness they don’t feel: holding a room, absorbing tension, while their nervous system quietly pays the cost. This immersion is grounded in polyvagal theory: creativity and change leadership are not purely cognitive skills; they are biological states. Participants will learn to read their own autonomic states, and tell the difference between shifting state in the moment and building deeper capacity over time. Through guided practice and real-time somatic exercises, they’ll leave with a transferable way to read their own nervous system and the systems of people they lead, teach, or coach.
Facilitator Allison Fleetwood
Language: English
Creativity isn’t just something we think, it’s something we do, together, with our whole bodies. In this experiential session, participants engage in movement-based exercises and team-building activities drawn from contemporary theatre practice to build observation, adaptability, problem-solving, and collaboration. Through physical challenges and structured reflection, participants discover how these artistic processes translate directly into classrooms, workplaces, and leadership settings. No performance experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to move. Participants leave with practical tools they can adapt to their own contexts for building creativity and collaboration.
Facilitator Marjolein Hutting
Language: English
What does your group need right now and what can you do to get them there? Great facilitation is not just about choosing the right activity. It is about getting people into the right mindset to connect, explore, create, focus or act. This fast-paced, hands-on workshop lets you experience fresh facilitation activities, playful interventions and techniques inspired by applied improvisation. We’ll explore what they do to a group, when to use them and why they work. Come ready to play and experiment and leave with a backpack full of fresh ideas for your next session.
Facilitator Andrea Edmondson
Language: English
Most leaders and facilitators have learned to perform steadiness they don’t feel: holding a room, absorbing tension, while their nervous system quietly pays the cost. This immersion is grounded in polyvagal theory: creativity and change leadership are not purely cognitive skills; they are biological states. Participants will learn to read their own autonomic states, and tell the difference between shifting state in the moment and building deeper capacity over time. Through guided practice and real-time somatic exercises, they’ll leave with a transferable way to read their own nervous system and the systems of people they lead, teach, or coach.
Facilitator Anthony Hyatt
Language: English
Creativity and intelligence do not only reside in our brains. Our bodies also have things to say. In this session we will activate our embodied intelligence to assist us in understanding and addressing challenges and opportunities from our lives.
We will choreograph metaphoric representations of them in our “studio space” so that we can learn as we make movement explorations of the options they present to us. This will allow for the emergence of new insights, information and possible solutions. No dance experience is required for this session. All that is needed is curiosity and an interest in choosing to experience problems differently.
Facilitators Maggie Dugan and Ismet Mamnoon
Language: English
True collaboration doesn’t happen by chance. It’s built, deliberately, through the design choices a facilitator makes before anyone walks into the room.
This session treats climate – the atmosphere and energy of a group – as architecture, something you can design on purpose, not leave to luck. Participants will explore what shapes whether people listen, contribute, and build on each other’s ideas, including how cultural and professional context affects willingness to engage. You’ll leave with techniques for designing climate deliberately, so collaboration and inclusion become the result of good design, not just by chance.
Facilitator Joe Gammal
Language: English
Facilitator Allison Fleetwood
Language: English
Creativity isn’t just something we think, it’s something we do, together, with our whole bodies. In this experiential session, participants engage in movement-based exercises and team-building activities drawn from contemporary theatre practice to build observation, adaptability, problem-solving, and collaboration. Through physical challenges and structured reflection, participants discover how these artistic processes translate directly into classrooms, workplaces, and leadership settings. No performance experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to move. Participants leave with practical tools they can adapt to their own contexts for building creativity and collaboration.
Facilitator Marjolein Hutting
Language: English
What does your group need right now and what can you do to get them there? Great facilitation is not just about choosing the right activity. It is about getting people into the right mindset to connect, explore, create, focus or act. This fast-paced, hands-on workshop lets you experience fresh facilitation activities, playful interventions and techniques inspired by applied improvisation. We’ll explore what they do to a group, when to use them and why they work. Come ready to play and experiment and leave with a backpack full of fresh ideas for your next session.
Facilitator Andrea Edmondson
Language: English
Most leaders and facilitators have learned to perform steadiness they don’t feel: holding a room, absorbing tension, while their nervous system quietly pays the cost. This immersion is grounded in polyvagal theory: creativity and change leadership are not purely cognitive skills; they are biological states. Participants will learn to read their own autonomic states, and tell the difference between shifting state in the moment and building deeper capacity over time. Through guided practice and real-time somatic exercises, they’ll leave with a transferable way to read their own nervous system and the systems of people they lead, teach, or coach.
Facilitators Tim Dunne and Andrea Montuschi
Language: English
This immersion fuses writing and applied improvisation into one fast arc. Participants begin by writing a short “two-hander” dialogue – playful, invented, and drawn from everyday exchanges rather than personal difficulty – giving everyone a low-pressure, non-performance entry point.
Improv games and warm-ups follow, building listening, presence, and co-creation skills through “Yes, And” rather than “Yes, but.” Their own words then become the shared material the group brings to life together, turning a page written earlier that morning into a moment played out on its feet.
Facilitator Judith de Jong
Language: English
Are you aware of the richness of a place when you facilitate, coach or teach? We go to beautiful places, yet often only use a fraction of what these places have to offer. Objects, views, people, history, sounds, tastes, sensations and spaces can all become creative resources. What else could you do with a staircase? How might we use a city map differently? Imagine the possibilities hidden in the story on a historical sign. We will use Sestri Levante as our playground to explore how your surroundings can spark new ideas and transform familiar methods.
Facilitator Michelle Dolan
Language: English
An experiential immersion, designed to transform a group of individual thinkers into a cohesive co-design team, this four-hour session dives deep into the mindsets, tools, and methods that foster genuine collaboration in working groups. Through playful exercises, participants will explore new ways to build psychological safety and trust, cultivate deep empathy, and create space for all voices to be heard. Join us to experience how perspective-shifting sets the ultimate foundation for collective breakthrough innovation.
Facilitator Allison Fleetwood
Language: English
Creativity isn’t just something we think, it’s something we do, together, with our whole bodies. In this experiential session, participants engage in movement-based exercises and team-building activities drawn from contemporary theatre practice to build observation, adaptability, problem-solving, and collaboration. Through physical challenges and structured reflection, participants discover how these artistic processes translate directly into classrooms, workplaces, and leadership settings. No performance experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to move. Participants leave with practical tools they can adapt to their own contexts for building creativity and collaboration.
Facilitator Marjolein Hutting
Language: English
What does your group need right now and what can you do to get them there? Great facilitation is not just about choosing the right activity. It is about getting people into the right mindset to connect, explore, create, focus or act. This fast-paced, hands-on workshop lets you experience fresh facilitation activities, playful interventions and techniques inspired by applied improvisation. We’ll explore what they do to a group, when to use them and why they work. Come ready to play and experiment and leave with a backpack full of fresh ideas for your next session.
Facilitator Andrea Edmondson
Language: English
Most leaders and facilitators have learned to perform steadiness they don’t feel: holding a room, absorbing tension, while their nervous system quietly pays the cost. This immersion is grounded in polyvagal theory: creativity and change leadership are not purely cognitive skills; they are biological states. Participants will learn to read their own autonomic states, and tell the difference between shifting state in the moment and building deeper capacity over time. Through guided practice and real-time somatic exercises, they’ll leave with a transferable way to read their own nervous system and the systems of people they lead, teach, or coach.
Facilitateurs Guillemette Goglio et Yves Chambert-Loir
Langue: Français
Renforcez votre posture créative pour créer un climat et une culture propices à l’innovation
Avant d’aller plus loin, posez-vous cette question : Quel est le leader qui vous inspire ? et quelles sont ses qualités ?
Ce programme est recommandé pour tous les acteurs du changement: dirigeants, enseignants, animateurs, consultants, chefs de projet, responsables de l’innovation et toute personne qui souhaite développer son leadership créatif et donner aux autres les moyens d’en faire autant.
Que ce soit un artiste, une sportive, une femme d’affaire ou un bienfaiteur, les qualités du leader choisi par les répondants sont toutes des qualités humaines. En effet, plus que développer ses compétences techniques et stratégiques en leadership, oser travailler son savoir être et sa posture créative permet d’inspirer et d’avoir un impact.
Pour s’adapter en permanence, le leader doit apprendre à se connaître, et à questionner ses propres convictions avant d’agir. Cela lui permettra de provoquer, d’anticiper et même de créer le changement.
Le leader créatif transforme les idées ambitieuses en résultat concret. Mais il ne le fait pas seul, il sait que renforcer la créativité des équipes est une réponse clé à l’engagement. Les leaders créatifs ne sont pas seulement innovants, ils permettent aux autres d’oser l’être.
Grâce à ce programme, vous renforcerez votre propre leadership créatif et incarnerez le leader de demain.
