Think Like a Genius Metaphorming Workshop

Sat March 24, 10 am - 12:30 pm, taking place in the Lumonics Mind Spa at the McNichols Civic Center Building, Denver, CO admission $10

WHY: Fostering Mental Health is as important as cultivating a passion for Lifelong Learning. And yet, who really knows what "Mental Health" looks and feels like today? Art enables us to envision what we want to create, and create what we envision.

WHAT: This exciting hands-on Metaphorming Workshop will enable you to visualize and give form to your ideas in response to this question: IDEALLY, HOW CAN THE ARTS & SCIENCES HELP PROMOTE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOR THE COMMON GOOD? SHOW AND DESCRIBE YOUR IDEAS.

HOW: Using arts-based methods and tools for stimulating innovative thinking, this facilitated workshop provides a “global common language” for people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures to freely express their ideas and solutions. Participants are guided to collaboratively create and share symbolic models that reveal their thoughts, feelings, emotions, ideas, knowledge, dreams, and perspectives.

WHO: The workshop is limited to only 50 participants (ages 10 to 100). We will be working together in small groups, creating metaphorical models and exploring their meanings and possibilities. These two links to related workshops (https://www.artofsciencelearning.org/metaphorming/ andwww.thinklikeageniusfoundation.org) will give you a sense of the special purpose, process and productive fun of this creative activity, including its useful "Takeaways".

WHERE: Participants will have a rare opportunity to draw inspiration from the beautiful artworks by Dorothy & Mel Tanner and Lumonics Light & Sound Studio currently displayed in the space where the workshop will take place.

*About the workshop facilitator: Todd Siler is an internationally-recognized visual artist who received a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology and Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in 1986, he became the first visual artist to be awarded a doctorate from M.I.T. He was a Research Affiliate at M.I.T.’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies (1981-83); a Visiting Artist/Scientist at the Computer-Aided Design Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (1986-88 & 1991-92); an International Advisory Board Member for the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, Korea, as well as a Forum Fellow of the 1999 and 2001 Annual Meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Mr. Siler’s published works include BREAKING THE MIND BARRIER (Simon & Schuster, 1990) and THINK LIKE A GENIUS (Bantam Books, 1996; Penguin Random House, 2017; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/167113/think-like-a-genius-by-todd-siler/9780553379280/). 

In 1994, Siler founded The ArtScience? Program for Realizing Human Potential (aka, Think Like a Genius? Program) to cultivate creativity, inspire innovative thinking and collaborative learning in diverse people and organizations, addressing real-world challenges. He has facilitated workshops worldwide on accelerating innovation in Fortune 500 Companies, including IBM, Texas Instruments, NTT Communications/Verio, US West/Quest, Chevron, Chase Manhattan, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Johnson & Johnson, ING North America, Procter & Gamble, and many more, including: venture capital-funded technology startups. Todd Siler is a recipient of an I.B.M. Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to Paris, France (1975-76), a Fulbright Fellowship to India (1985-86), and a Meitec Fellowship (1989-91). He received the 1995 “Artist-of- the-Year” Award from the New York City Teachers Association and United Federation of Teachers. In addition, he holds a number of patents on a wide range of inventions, including a computer-graphics input device and textile printing machinery. In 2011, Todd Siler was awarded the "Leonardo Da Vinci World Award of Arts" by the World Cultural Council. For the past four decades, Siler has exhibited his artworks internationally in major museums and galleries and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York City (www.feldmangallery.com). www.ToddSilerArt.com

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