Creative Spark is available for staff workshops that enliven and inspire! Available in-person or virtually.
Explore Our Workshops
Creating Joy At Work
Apply a creative, joyful lens to the work you do! This virtual workshop will help us explore how to get & keep joy in the workplace.
Why explore joy? Research shows the significant benefits of joy, to our minds and bodies. In addition to feeling better, joyful workplaces are 31% more productive! Joyful employees take 10x fewer sick days! Joy is a powerful tool for our work. Through interactive exercises we’ll utilize the power of creative thinking to discover the role of joy in our work experience, helping us shift perspective and see our organizations and ourselves in a new way.
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Virtual $1000: We're going to have fun in this interactive workshop! This won't be your standard Zoom meeting. Cameras on, bring paper and writing utensils (we support your multi-color highlighter habit).
In-Person $5000: We'll make our way to your team, wherever you are in the world, carrying our art supplies with us. These workshops have incredible energy that will inspire your team! Depending on location, there may be additional travel fees associated.
Meet your Facilitators from Creative Spark, a Front Porch Program.
Discover Workplace Resilience
Improve staff retention by building a creatively confident culture where team members trust their own ideas, persevere when things don’t work out, and see mistakes as learning opportunities. We'll explore the intersection between resiliency, retention, and creative confidence. Review the research on how to operationalize practices that will bolster your teams potential.
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Is this workshop right for my team?
Are you looking to empower staff and create better team cohesion? Does your team need a little inspiration? This workshop gives your team the resilience advantage by unlocking creative potential and encouraging confident, innovative problem-solving .
Virtual, 1 hour $1000: We're going to have fun in this interactive workshop! This won't be your standard Zoom meeting. Cameras on, bring paper and writing utensils (we support your multi-color highlighter habit).
In-Person, 1-1.5 hours $5000: We'll make our way to your team, wherever you are in the world, carrying our art supplies with us. These workshops have incredible energy that will inspire your team! Depending on location, there may be additional travel fees associated.
Meet Your Facilitators from Creative Spark, a Front Porch Program.
Explore Academy Live
If you would like to experience our signature training series with our instructors live, this highly interactive, six-session training begins with the foundation of creative aging as a field and then takes participants on a journey to develop intentional, creative programs with older adults.
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This training is delivered via Zoom, one hour each week in a group learning circle with up to 15 members of your team, with pre-work ideas given each week. Ideally, you'd commit 30-60 minutes outside the learning circle each week to test your engagement ideas or complete pre-work. We'll use creative tools, such as poetry, journaling, drawing, and more, to explore the themes below and you'll walk away with tools you can immediately use with older adults!
This class is ideal for direct service practitioners who want to learn more about creative aging research and programs and/or create more intentional programming with older adults. For those working in aging services, you'll find value in learning about creative aging best practices and how to bring those to your work. For those working in the arts & culture arena, you'll find it useful to learn more about aging and programming specifically designed for older adults and adults with disabilities.
Attendees are eligible for six hours of continuing education credits from the National Certification Council for Activity Professionals! A certificate will be emailed to you at the end of the course. Looking for a different type of CE credit? Let us know at creativespark@frontporch.net.
Module 1 (Sessions 1 & 2) Creative Groundwork
Session One: Leading with Joy Session Two: Creative Aging Principles We start by building a robust vocabulary for creative aging grounded in research and embedded in a theoretical framework. Through interactive exercises a learning circle is created to share what is special in us to bring out what is special in others. This immersive and experiential training is designed to create a sense of trust and form a base of knowledge that will guide our exploration. Discover the field of creative aging as it relates to brain function, human development, research, and history.
Module 2 (Sessions 3 & 4) The Light Within
Session Three: Applying a Creative Lens and Utilizing a Virtual PlatformSession Four: Program Design and EvaluationExplore co-learning with participants and celebrate the potential of ‘WhatIf’ when developing programs. Learn how to trust your instincts and bravely challenge the status quo (push your own boundaries). This module takes you through curriculum design, program evaluation, and discover best practices in how to translate programs virtually in an inclusive and accessible way.
Module 3 (Session 5 and 6) Proof of Listening
Session Five: Connecting Programs to Purpose Session Six: Looking Back to Move Forward Our final module fosters growth as we set a challenge, support discovery, and celebrate achievement. We’ll examine culminating events as a means to shift culture and build bridges. Let’s reveal the creative possibilities of beginnings and endings understanding that they are one in the same.
Meet Your Facilitators from Creative Spark, a Front Porch Program.
Creative Path to Longevity
Are you looking to learn more about creative aging as a field? Would you like to increase creative programming within your organization? Does your team need a little inspiration? This workshop works both for staff members as well as older adult audiences.
Discover the fundamental principles of creative aging including the research, programs, and benefits of practice. Through interactive exercises we will ignite that spark inside you as we build creative confidence and positive connections within ourselves and our community.
The creative process encourages us to see ourselves and our world in a new way. It promotes a healthy mind-body connection while promoting personal growth and enhances your overall wellbeing. At work it promotes innovation and for older adults it holds the key to longevity.
Meet Your Facilitators from Creative Spark, a Front Porch Program.