!! COVID-19 UPDATE !!
Alas, there will be no Mindcamp Canada in 2020 due to COVID-19. Meanwhile, check out Mindcamp Connect, our ongoing online community.
Below are 2019's sessions... to give you a taste of what kind of thing might get presented at Mindcamp Canada in 2021.Mind U
A set of concurrent, deep-dive sessions that take place each morning at 9am. Participants select one, and return to it in that first period each day for the whole of Mindcamp (going to other stuff for the rest of the day).- Bouffon for Everyone The power of humour (Massimo Agostinelli)
- C.H.A.N.G.E.(S.) Turn and face the strange (Liz Monroe-Cook)
- Extreme Exploration What Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, and Arctic explorers have taught us about the world at the edge (Mary Ellyn Vicksta)
- The Future is All Made Up Science Fiction postcards from the unimaginable future (Michelle Auerbach)
- The Hero Within Designing a life on purpose (Francois Coetzee)
- Painting Your Postcard Embracing your past and imagining your future (Russell Thomas)
- The Vortex of Innovation Draft your project from the edge (Edouard Le Marechal)
- What's That Smell? Building your sensory postcard (Clare Dus, Lee Stapleton)
Double 90s
Three-hour sessions that are split into two by a lunch break. These happen on Saturday morning/afternoon.- Cognitive Biases Why saying "defer judgment" is delusional (Susan Robertson)
- The Courage to Jump (Ingvar Jónsson)
- Game-Based Learning Soft skills developed by playing HARD! (Rodrigo Sánchez Picazo)
- Navigating Culture The soul of creativity (Hamlin Grange)
- Sense-ational Svadhyaya A journey of self-study through the 5 senses (Tamara Christensen, Iz Wyrd)
- Track and Trace Becoming a casual problem solving bush ranger (Branko Broekman)
- WeTube 2.0 Creating your message in a video (Jim Ridge)
Youth Program
Just a few of our programs for our Youth Program participants.- Body Rhythms (Elisha MacMillan)
- Outsiders Accepting ourselves and celebrating weirdness (Rachel Gordon)
- Young Entrepreneurs (Vareia Boxill)
Other Sessions
There are other, shorter sessions too!- Afternoon Relaxation Practice Lie down and breathe from the edges of your awareness (Allie Middleton)
- All Inclusive A 5-star approach to human-centred design (Janeen Halliwell)
- Best Session EVER (Ismet Mamnoon, Matteo Catullo)
- Biodanza Dance me to the edge (Sophie Harvey)
- Blindfolded! A sightless experience (Denise Pinto)
- Canadian Multicultural Inventors Museum Amazing inventors who have called Canada home (Francis Jeffers)
- Cognitive Biases Why saying "defer judgment" is delusional (Susan Robertson)
- Collaborative Combustion Lessons learned from the creative frontier (Lee Kitchen, Wayne Childers, Mark Dodsworth)
- Collective Image Streaming Postcards from the edge of group consciousness (Ginny Santos)
- Connecting through Conflict It’s a small world after all (Kim Larkin, Abby Wilkymacky)
- Conscious Leadership Awaken the inner leader within you! (Ann-Marie Kong, Joanne Stone)
- The Courage to Jump (Ingvar Jónsson)
- Cracking the Cultural Code Strategies for managing cultural polarities to foster creativity (Tim Switalski, Laura Barbero Switalski)
- Creativity is Dead Reimagining problem solving using radical compassion (Grover Neville)
- Creativity X-Press Key attitudes, principles, and tools (Latise Hairston)
- The Edge It's the moment of NOW! (Anthony Hyatt)
- Excursions to the Edge (Dorte Nielsen, Tim Hurson)
- Facilitating with Heart Navigating the emotions triggered by clarifying a situation (Clara Kluk, Sylvain Rouillard)
- Feeding Change Standing on the edge of chaos (John Sedgwick)
- Game-Based Learning Soft skills developed by playing HARD! (Rodrigo Sánchez Picazo)
- Hard Spaces / Safe Places Bringing the creative mind into the hard discussions of sex, politics, and religion (Allan Cole)
- Home and Native Land Rethinking our connections to this place we call Canada (Michael Carlson)
- Hum Strum Ukulele! If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place (Tom McMillian, Megan Mitchell)
- I Think I Can Why can't that be enough to start "doing"? (Bara Watts)
- Inspire Your Ideal A whole-being happiness workshop (Megan Mitchell)
- Journalling at the Edge Send yourself a postcard from the edge everyday (Anthony Billoni)
- Learning from Labyrinth A one-way path to learn, un-learn, re-learn. Let the labyrinth guide you. (Chiara Micalizzi, Alessia Berti, Marina Randich)
- Legal Check-up Structuring your creativity (Robert Wakulat)
- The Making of Meaning (Joe Gammal)
- Meet Your Better Half Unleash the power of your right brain (William Donius)
- Memory and Creativity Imagination is a key to our brain agility (Vincent Regnier)
- The Mind/Character Split How to use it to transform your life (Deron Essex)
- Mining Your Creative Capacity A how-to guide for implementation and rapid results (Bert Rossouw)
- Morning Movement & Mindfulness A juicy way to enter your day (Elisha MacMillan)
- Navigating Culture The soul of creativity (Hamlin Grange)
- Pitch 'er Perfect How to craft and deliver a perfect pitch (Doug Carter)
- Playing with TIM Integrating a creative thinking skill set into your training or classroom (Cyndi Burnett)
- Samurai Wisdom Exploring Your Edge (Jay Aquilanti, Kristen Peterson)
- Sense-ational Svadhyaya A journey of self-study through the 5 senses (Tamara Christensen, Iz Wyrd)
- Storytelling to Inspire Dreaming with your eyes wide OPEN (Susannah Childers)
- Track and Trace Becoming a casual problem solving bush ranger (Branko Broekman)
- The Tree of Life A journey into our strengths (Guillemette Goglio, Charlotte Goglio)
- Wabi-Sabi Restore Honour the precious edges within you (Leonardo Muñoz)
- Wabi-Sabi Restore (Pre-Mindcamp) Honour the precious edges within you (Leonardo Muñoz)
- WeTube 2.0 Creating your message in a video (Jim Ridge)
- What's So Funny? (Massimo Agostinelli, Javiera Correa)
- Writing Freely (Tom McMillian)
- Writing with the Senses (Cynthia Reyes)
- The YES, AND Inside NO, BUT (Beth Slazak)
- Your Lifetime Reimagined A time travel experience (Matteo Catullo, Newell Eaton)