2024 Session Description

Reclaim the Toys in Your Attic
Unlock the creative power of play

4 x 75 minutes  •  8:30am daily

By the end of this four-day Mind U, you will acquire a collection of games, tools, and attitudes that you can apply in your everyday life, work, or personal endeavors, ultimately enhancing your overall happiness, creativity, flexibility, and experience.

The Skinny: 3 things you will do in this session

  • Offer situations and opportunities to develop your sense of humor in a safe learning environment
  • Understand the role of play as a social dynamic within teams and its impact on enhancing creativity
  • Nurture your own creativity through play
Clara Kluk
Mexico City, México
Clara is a partner of PIENSA, a consulting firm in México City and in Costa Rica, specializing in organizational development and creativity training and facilitation. She works with organizations across Mexico, and Latin America to facilitate creativity and innovation, to help manage change and transition, and enhance teamwork and leadership.

An artist, and expert in social sciences, Clara has more than 20 years of experience. She has worked extensively for many corporations, in several different fields, including pharmaceutical, financial, cosmetics, insurance, telecommunications, education, food, and social services.

Clara holds a Master of Science degree in Creativity and Innovation from the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College.

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Clara is a returning presenter.

Sylvain Rouillard
Montréal, QC
Psychologist, specialized in creativity.

President of Crea-Québec, Quebec’s association for the development of creativity.
He designs and facilitates workshops and delivers conferences on creativity and creative problem solving since more than 25 years. Hundreds of conferences and workshops all over the world.

Teaching of Psychology of creativity and innovation methods at various universities : Certificate in creativity and Innovation at University of Montreal, Université du Québec à Montréal.

Facilitator of creativity workshops in international conferences: ten years at CPSI, (creative problem solving institute at Buffalo), since ten years at Mindcamp (Ontario, Canada), and at CREA Conference (annual European conference in Italy) since its second year.

He also helps individuals and teams from public and private organizations in various fields to achieve innovative results: government agencies, tourism, architecture, food industry, medias, etc.

His consulting and training activities have taken him across Québec and in Canada, United States, Italy, France, Mexico and India.

Sylvain is a returning presenter.

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Mind U Sessions
NOTE: This is a partial list, more to come...
  • Liquid Thinking Do you really need a box to think outside it?
     (Edouard Le Maréchal, Sophie Harvey)
  • Reclaim the Toys in Your Attic Unlock the creative power of play (Clara Kluk, Sylvain Rouillard)
  • Time for Recess! Tricks, tools and improv games to set you apart and make you and your work more memorable (Rich DiGirolamo, Beth Slazak)
  • The Well-Being Playground Support your health and wellness through play (Ginny Santos, Dan Bigonesse)
  • TBD
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