The CPSI Creativity Continuum
CPSI is more than a conference—it is part of a Creativity Continuum, spanning more than 70 years, that helps people learn, practice, and celebrate deliberate creativity throughout the year. Rooted in the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process, CPSI events offer multiple pathways for individuals, teams, and communities to strengthen their creative capacity.

CPSI Flagship
Our multi-day, international gathering where participants dive deeply into CPS, explore new thinking, and connect with a global community of creativity practitioners.  At CPSI, you learn from world-class facilitators across diverse professional development modalities, all delivering highly interactive workshops packed with practical tools you can apply immediately.  Beyond the learning, CPSI’s exceptional culture fosters deep, meaningful connections that often grow into lifelong friendships and creative partnerships.

CPSI Flagship returns in June 2028 and runs biennially (every two years).

CPSI City Events
CPSI City events are short-format creativity training experiences that bring CPS learning closer to home.  CPSI City content will vary by location, and will include: Foundations in CPS with credentialing; multi-workshop sessions that teach participants how to apply deliberate creativity processes to critical topics in their work and communities; creative education thought leadership and advances topic immersions; and retreats that provide multi-day deep dives with small groups.  These events offer a focused, high-impact way to build creative skills and stay connected to the CPSI community between flagship years.

CPSI Sarasota (formerly Florida Creativity Conference — FLCC)
The first CPSI City event – continuing the same methodology and spirit with refreshed name and a clear role within the Creativity Continuum.  Formerly known as FLCC (Florida Creativity Conference),  this long-running regional gathering built a devoted community around applied creativity, hands-on learning, and facilitator-led workshops.  CPSI Sarasota carries forward that legacy offering Foundations in CPS credentialing, and multi-workshop sessions that help participants apply deliberate creativity to real-world challenges.

World Creativity & Innovation (WCI)
A global celebration held every April 15-21 that invites individuals, organizations, and communities around the world to take creative action. As WCI expands, we are building it into a year-round movement – connecting global participants to CEF’s ongoing programs, CPS learning opportunities, and the broader Creativity Continuum.  WCI remains a joyful annual celebration, and it now also serves as a continuous gateway into CPSI Flagship, CPSI City events, and CEF’s creativity trainings thoughout the year.

A Connected Pathway for Creative Growth
Across the Creativity Continuum, participants learn how to:
Clarify complex challenges
Ideate imaginative possibilities
Develop strong solutions
Implement ideas with confidence

Whether you join us at the flagship conference, a CPSI City event, or through WCIW celebrations, you are part of a global movement advancing creativity as a practical, human skill that strengthens individuals, organizations, and communities.

The Creative Education Foundation— the creators of “brainstorming” and original experts in creative problem solving — presents the annual Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) Conference, the world’s longest-running creativity conference. We explore themes including innovation, entrepreneurship, change leadership, applied imagination, deliberate creativity, design thinking and more.

Our attendees come from all professions, including entrepreneurs, consultants, C-suites, educators and researchers. WHAT BONDS US? We are change makers, big thinkers, instigators and architects of innovation out to make a difference in our own worlds (at work and at home) and the world at large.

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