Posts Tagged With: experience
The Half-Remembered Face
There’s that moment — sometime near the beginning of the conference, you are walking past a group of people you don’t know, and a face catches your eye. Or perhaps you are sitting in the lobby and a stranger comes toward you, but the face is a little familiar. And there is that moment when &hellip Continue reading
“Brutti ma Buoni”
Just before CREA, I came across a cafe that offered an assortment of baked goods in a glass case. I noted that one little pile of meringues of utterly undistinguished appearance had an intriguing name: BRUTTI MA BUONI, i.e., “ugly but good”. Intrigued, I bought half a dozen — and they were in fact very &hellip Continue reading
CREA Tip: Unplug Your Brain
It may seem counterintuitive, but even if your objective here is to feed your brain with new ideas, techniques, perspectives, and even friends, you need to unplug it for a while every day. At CREA our brains can be like little children in a candy store: More! More! More! The results of complete indulgence are not good. Continue reading
CREA Tip: The Long, Beautiful Walk
If you go to a program in Convento, Hotel Due Mari, or Cambiaso, you are so lucky! These locations are about 15 minutes away from Villa Balbi. In other words, you get to prepare for your session with a walk along the Viale Remembranze, through the church square and along Baia del Silenzio. What better preparation? Plus you get to integrate your session experience with the reverse walk back to lunch, bed, the bar, or wherever you’re headed. Continue reading
Crea Tip: Room Power
At CREA, our room keys must be inserted into a slot beside the door in order to activate the electrical power. When we take the key out to leave, the power goes off (after a brief grace period), ensuring that vacant rooms aren’t wastefully illuminated. The problem is, we may need to charge our computers/tablets/phones while we are out… Continue reading
The CREA Language Experience
It began as a whim. The first year I came to CREA, I thought it might be nice to learn a little Italian, a language in which I had no experience at all. Why not? I was going to a new country, to spend four days with a group of people I had never met. &hellip Continue reading
Se plonger dans l’ambiance
J’arrive toujours un peu avance à CREA Conference mais cela faisait longtemps que je n’étais pas arrivée à Sestri Levante un lundi… J’aime particulièrement cette atmosphère feutrée où la frénésie de la Conférence n’est pas encore palpable, où la pression monte doucement. Le labyrinthe se construit, la déco se met en place et cette année &hellip Continue reading
Pourquoi aller à CREA Conference ?
Plusieurs participants français à CREA Conference 2011 ont été interrogés sur leurs motivations et leurs attentes ainsi que sur le bilan qu’ils ont fait après coup de leur expérience à Sestri Levante. Pour ceux qui hésiteraient encore, regardez et écoutez : Merci à Edouard Le Maréchal pour ces images !
CREA at Work in Ireland
“Being a part of CREA has helped me get under the skin of creativity. It’s given me insight into each individual’s creative style and how to leverage that style for the organization. It’s helped me understand the creative process and I use the tools and techniques that I learned at CREA daily to help instill &hellip Continue reading