Center for Creative Intelligence
The Center for Creative Intelligence is really not about us, it is about you! Each of us has the potential to lead a happy, healthy, loving and creative life. Creative intelligence is our birthright, and the center of its radiance is your own being. We are here to help you uncover and let go of anything that is holding you back from expressing and magnetizing the life you deserve. Our work at the Center for Creative Intelligence is based on these foundational principles:
The Three Foundations
Human Experience
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he
listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is
the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It
takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals
The exercises and contemplative tools we offer in the Center for Creative Intelligence have been handed down from our predecessors who have worked diligently to connect with the human goodness, generosity and dignity that lies within each of us. We must reconnect with those ageless teachings that are shared by all beings and cultures in order to heal ourselves, our society and our planet. Through these core practices that have been given to us, we are reconnecting with those fearless individuals who have discovered the truth of being human, so that we can take that journey as well. We offer gratitude to this lineage of wisdom, the cumulative Human Experience that has brought us to this point.
The Essential Path
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
The Essential Path is comprised of six workshops designed to introduce you to the full spectrum of your human potential. The simple and profound practices you will be offered in these programs will empower you to be a catalyst for creating an awakened world. At the Center for Creative Intelligence we draw on the wisdom of human experience to offer an essential path to finding solutions to the problems that face us individually and as a global society.
Global Community
The human being of the West has abandoned being human and has turned himself into an individual....community has died in them.
Nicolas Aguilar Sayritupac, Aymara Indian, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Community is a support system that further empowers each of us to develop new, healthy habits. These new behaviors are essential to the functioning of our society in relationship to each other and our earth. More so now than ever, we are all affected by the actions of each other on environmental, economic, and societal levels. We can realize that in cooperation we have the solutions to work intelligently toware the future that our children deserve. Please join our evolving Global Community of support, as together we can create an awakened world.
Creating Sustainable Communities with Margaret Wheatley
Gayle and Deborah participated in a six-week intergenerational cooperative leadership series "Creating Sustainable Communities" featuring Margaret Wheatley, a renowned author, educator, consultant, speaker on leadership and organizational topics, and co-founder of The Berkana Institute, a global charitable foundation. Her books include award-winning Leadership and the New Science and A Simpler Way. The programs were coordinated by the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Center for Ethical Leadership and brought together USF students, faculty and community leaders to engage in brainstorming and meaningful conversation about innovative leadership, community needs and action plans for developing sustainability.
2009 Vancouver Peace Summit
Deborah and Gayle attended the 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Gayle was invited to participate in a key component of the Summit, Connecting for Change, a three-day invitation-only dialogue for corporate and social leaders and philanthropists that focused on questions related to universal themes of compassion, community, and peace. They also attended Educating the Heart: Creative Well-Being in which the Dalai Lama, Sir Ken Robinson, Daniel Siegel, the Blue Man Group, Eckhart Tolle and Murray Gell-Mann engaged in dialogue with moderator Matthieu Ricard, and Heart-Mind Education in which the Dalai Lama, Clyde Hertzman, Kim Schonert-Reichl, Stephen Covey, Mairead Maguire and Adele Diamond conversed with moderator Martha Piper.
This photo of the Dalai Lama engaged in dialogue with the participants of the Connecting for Change conference illustrates compassion in action. The primary challenge issued by the Dalai Lama throughout the entire four-day event was to address how we are actually going to make life on earth better for everyone. This was a call to put our minds and hearts together to create the educational programs and to test and prove how empathy and compassion can be activated for greater human happiness and positive world change. His Holiness assembled some of the best thinkers in the fields of science, spirituality, humanitarianism, and education to debate the road to inner and world peace in public forum.
All the panelists who spoke have inspired societal change through their personal endeavors, and the discussions explored how inner transformation can help us work towards building a peaceful world. Then, in our break out sessions the 120 participants within the Connecting for Change conference formed working groups and listened, challenged and shared with each in order to find how we might move forward post conference. On September 29, 2009 Deb and I were truly inspired and entertained at the sessions on "Educating the Heart: Creativity and Well-Being and Heart-Mind Education." The session was opened by Blue Man Group and a multi-media presentation on the creative process. Top authors, researchers and educators also shared the latest research findings with summit attendees. It was an exciting opportunity to spark new collaborations and learn from other individuals who are making a difference around the globe.