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<font size=3>Thank you so much Murli for sending me this information. I
may well attend the San Diego winterfest at the end of next
January.<br>
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Esther<br>
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At 09:46 AM 6/28/99 -0600, you wrote:<br>
>Esther, CPSI (pronounced "sipsee") is the Creative
Problem Solving Institute,<br>
>held annually about this time in Buffalo, NY for the last 45
years. One of the<br>
>world's best kept secrets, not by design, of course. Founded by
Alex Osborn<br>
>(as in BBD&O and Brainstorming) and picked up by Sid Parnes, who
continues on<br>
>as pater familias. Runs for about a week, and of late has been
attracting<br>
>about 900 people, many from around the world, esp. Brazil and South
Africa.<br>
>All walks of life, age 10 to whatever. Numerous workshops
running in parallel,<br>
>unparalleled voluntary sleep deprivation. Creative thinking by
every<br>
>conceivable definition. No open space so far, though (to my
knowledge).<br>
>Incidentally, I first heard about Open Space in '96 at the annual
American<br>
>Creativity Association conference in Minneapolis. ACA is more
like a regular<br>
>conference, while CPSI is a summer camp. Or a lovefest.
Highly addictive.<br>
>You gotta be there.<br>
><br>
><a href="http://www.cef-cpsi.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.cef-cpsi.org</a><br>
><br>
>Murli<br>
><br>
>At 08:03 AM 6/28/99 -0400, you wrote:<br>
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>> What is CPSI? I've never heard of it.<br>
>><br>
>> Esther<br>
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