Posts Tagged ‘Alyea Sandovar’
Playful Creative Summit – wretched news
Playful Creative Summits will be no more, fabulous though they were. David Chislett and Alyea Sandovar, the mad genius innovators and motivators behind the Summits, had to admit their efforts were exhilarating, electrifying and exhausting. I will miss the magic: woefully, I didn’t manage to transcribe all the presentations. I passionately believe I gleaned all…
Read MoreTrickster Mindset: Designing a Playful Life and Business – Alyea Sandovar – Playful Creative Summit 2020
“Trickster Mindset: Designing a Playful Life and Business” – Alyea Sandovar – Playful Creative Summit 2020. Sandovar interviews David Chislett during the Summits; Chislett interviews Sandovar. Sandovar believes, fervently, that intuition sustains creativity. But intuition isn’t entirely spontaneous and creativity can be mindfully cultivated. She has a morning ritual to tap into both: she exercises,…
Read MoreDavid Chislett – Humans are Weapons of Mass Creation – Playful Creative Summit 2020
There was a 2020 Playful Creative Summit. I’m savoring all of those recordings just as I prized the 2022 offerings. A client cancelled. Despite aquamarine skies, it’s cold and I want to hide under blankets with a hot chocolate. Perfect for catching a bunch. So I’m going to post my impressions, a haphazard few at…
Read MoreAnne Vries – How does one dare to birth an idea into the world?
Anne Vries, Idéfix, asked “How does one dare to birth an idea into the world?” for her conversation with Alyea Sandovar during the 2020 Playful Creative Summit (I’m linking to 2021; 2020 is now private.). Start simply, start by making the smallest possible version of your thought as you can. Find community for support and…
Read MoreJenn Sandercock – Using Constraints to Innovate
Jenn Sandercock – Using Constraints to Innovate – collaborated in the 47th of 52 conversations of the 2021 Playful Creative Summit, chatting with Alyea Sandovar. She suggests that setting constraints on your creativity can be freeing, because it can eliminate the overwhelm someone might otherwise feel if s/he/they try to tackle everything in a project all…
Read MoreMario Izquierdo Boosting Creativity by Reducing TTP – TTP means how quickly a troll invades a virtual space
Mario Izquierdo, in his 2021 Playful Creative Summit Boosting Creativity by Reducing TTP conversation with Alyea Sandovar spoke about the value of learning the hard, boring, repetitive stuff as a foundation for creativity. He is an engineer by training, which he compared to learning how to bounce a basketball before you can play. His training provided…
Read MoreKenn Munk and Annabelle Nielsen – The Introvert Playground
Kenn Munk and Annabelle Nielsen launched The Introvert Playground because they recognize that introverts and extroverts play differently. That is not right or wrong, good or bad, it is simply a fact of different minds working differently and having different needs. Most playgrounds are designed for extroverts – large, open areas, offering highly physical activities…
Read MoreJedidjah Julia Noomen – Improvise Your Storytelling: How To Use Improv Techniques For Writing
Jedidjah Julia Noomen in Improvise Your Storytelling: How To Use Improv Techniques For Writing, the next 2021 Playful Creative Summit presentation I’ll highlight, focused on a conversation about improvised story-telling in written form with Alyea Sandovar. Sandovar began by asking “How do you, Noomen, define improvisation?” Noomen related her introduction to improv, as a professional…
Read More52 2021 Creative Playful Summit conversations analyzed and on line!
All of them, all 52 2021 Creative Playful Summit conversations listened to, thought about, summarized and the summaries on line. Parcelled out once a week on Wednesdays through March 15, 2023. And now on to the 47 2020 recordings, 45 of them DIFFERENT PEOPLE. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Read MoreKara Stewart Fortier- In Play We Trust – The Intersection of Spirituality and Play –
Kara Stewart Fortier is the founder of PlayGrounding, and will absolutely stand out in my mind as the most bravely-vulnerable and brave speaker of the entire 2021 conference. She spoke about an upbringing in an unspecified, very restrictive religion, one which discouraged free-thinking, intuition, questions, and individuality and her wrenching struggles to find different mindsets and…
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