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Call to Action for World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 and Week, April 15-21, 2020 and beyond

WCID and WCIW experienced tremendous growth and success worldwide. Fabulous celebrations, moving toward achieving the global goals, were held. Check out the reach and breadth of global celebrations at #wciw, #wcid, #wcid2019 #wciw2019, #worldcreativityday, #worldcreativityandinnovationday. Future Celebrations People representing a variety of nations contributed to help people celebrate in the future and to keep the …

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What if we have creativity all wrong?

What if creativity isn’t about novelty or usefulness? What if creativity didn’t connect in people’s minds immediately to art, or special skill, or talent? What if, instead, creativity describes freedom? What if, instead of promoting creativity, we encouraged people to express their creativeness; their ability to create, to make new, to make a change?  

Our Creativeness is Needed. Ten Billion people predicted to be alive on our planet in 2050.

Greetings all. This TED talk appeared in my feed the other day and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Please watch it. Pay attention to the phrase petrie dish and outbreak. Why? Because I feel a broader scope to life on our planet is provided here. The 15 minutes you invest may provide profound insights …

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What Mother’s Day Can Teach Us about WCID

Today, where I live, it is Mother’s Day*. I could not not make a relationship** between this day and World Creativity and Innovation Day, wondering, what can be learned and applied from Mother’s Day that would help in WCID celebrations. Mothers perform an ulitimate creative act – they bring new life into the world.   …

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Feel satisfied, you made (and make) a difference.

Friends, Hope you are well, and feeling the inspired elation you released worldwide for World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 and Week, April 15-21. People have hope where they didn’t before; they feel they can in some way, make a difference through their disciplines. No one can do everything, everyone can something. That message …

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Happy World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21, 2018

World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21, is only one time in the year  during which you are invited to welcome and generate new ideas,  make new decisions, take new actions and achieve new outcomes that make the world a better place and make people’s place in the world better too. Like newly planted seeds, …

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World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21, 2018

Greetings all Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday, April 15, opens a time portal for each and every one planet-wide, to free thinking, to consider new ideas, decisions, actions and outcomes – World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21. Feel welcome to use your imagination this week and to combine it with your’s and others’ knowledge to: form …

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What prevents people from celebrating World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21?

Even though the WCID April 21 celebration is relatively new, it’s growing, and people are learning about it now that it is a United Nations Day of Observance. Do you think that feeling self-conscious may prevent people from celebrating their capacity to generate new ideas, make new decisions, take new actions and achieve new outcomes …

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The Story of How World Creativity and Innovation Day became a UN Day of Observance in video

Greetings all, Happy to share this video with you – it’s the 15-minute Ted-like speech I gave in Buffalo this past fall at the Creativity Expert Exchange in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the International Center for Studies in Creativity, my alma mater. The founding of WCID is shared, as is the tale of …

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