Conference Schedule – March 29, 2008

8:30 am Continental breakfast and registration
9 am Keynote address
Ellen Winner, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Boston College
10-10:55 am  Session 1
Arthur Grugan, PhD
“Wassily Kandinsky:  The Creative Breakthrough to Absolute Painting”

Fred C. Weaver, PhD
"Creativity Inspires in Social Work Practice" *

Jonna Kwiatkowski, PhD & Carlo Cerruti, MEd
"High-tech vs. Low-tech Enhancement of Creative Cognition" *

Margaret O'Rourke-Kelly, PhD
"Expressions of Creativity in Rural Life: The Dora Stockman Legacy"

Carolyn Szala, MA, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT
"Creativity and Mental Health: The Art of Mourning" *
11-11:55 am Session 2
Christina Robertson, PhD
“Creativity and Aging” *

Larry Thompson, MFA
"Chasing Flow: One Painter's Search for the Optimum Environment to Achieve Creative Success"

Carlo Cerruti, MEd
"Does ‘taking your mind off’ a problem benefit complex, creative cognition?" *

Beth A. Thomas
"Surpassing knowing: Metaphor and category re-conceptualization in the artwork of Mark Dion"

Paul Nolan, MCAT, MT-BC, LPC
"Creativity, Music and Therapy: Accessing Creative Potential to Enhance Mental Health" *
Noon-12:55 pm Lunch (provided)
1-1:55 pm Session 3
Marianne Roccaforte, PhD
"Beyond Creativity…Seeing 'Into' the World: The Artist's Experience of the Imagination in Everyday Life" *

Karen Rosnick, MA
"Cultivating Creativity" *

John Kounios, PhD
"The Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Insight" *

Mindy Atkin, MA
"The Healing Power of Creative Expression: Artwork of Martin Ramirez" *

Rosalie B. Minkin, TEP, MSW, ATR-BC, LCAT
"The Hand and the Glove: Creativity and Spontaneity" *
2-2:55 pm Session 4
Lorraine B. Festa, PhD
"Unleashing Your Hidden Muse: The Discovery and Expression of Creativity in Midlife Women" *

Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith, PhD
"Imaginative and Artistic Creativity"

Catherine Butler Smith, M. Phil LRAM
"A Dangerous Gift" *
3-3:55 pm Session 5
Annie Stanfield-Hagert, LCSW
“The Portrayal of Women in Early American Popular Music…From the Poor Waif to the Red Hot Momma with a Sainted Mother in Between”

Elizabeth Hartzell, PhD
"Understanding the Creative Process through the Prism of Jungian Psychological Type" *

Tom Block
"Painting as Prayer: Understanding Artistic Process as Mysticism"

Eric Aron Steinmiller
"Critical Theory, Creativity, and Artistic Production"

Cat S. Marshall
"Creativity and Novice Design"

Tobi Zausner, PhD
"Creativity and the Transforming Illness: How physical difficulties inspire art" *

* These workshops are eligible for 1 continuing education credit each.





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