Upcoming Events
SEPTEMBER
Maximizing Human Potential in Times of AI and Uncertainty: Strategies to Empower Future Generations
This talk discusses the need for more deliberate training on human skills to better support and reinforce students’ careers, specifically focusing on imagination and optimism as crucial skills to students’ inner development and to build more human-led practices that generate positive future-oriented visions.
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana & Universidad Iberoamericana (México City)
Talk. September, 2026
SEPTEMBER
Living with Imagination & Optimism: How to Cultivate Empowered Students
The goal of this 3-day workshop is to provide educators with the fundamental knowledge and strategies to teach students human skills, and to empower them to use their imagination intentionally, along with the practice of mindfulness to deepen their personal and emotional learning.
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México City)
In-person workshop for educators.
September, 2026
AUGUST
A Journey Within: How to Boost Imagination & Well-Being in Medical Education Workshop
Integrating imagination training (rooted in inner discovery) in health practices can increase optimism and the quality of social connections, as well as provide the tools to think more positively about the future. Sitting at the intersection of psychology and well-being, this workshop explores imagination as a skill that can be developed and improved by first journeying inwards. Attendees will walk away with the tools to integrate and foster imagination in their practice.
Creativity and Madness Conference
ACCME | APA | ASWB | AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Online. August 1, 2026
JULY
The Myths, The Science & The Benefits: Understanding Imagination and Creativity Beyond the Arts
This talk discusses the need for more deliberate training on human skills to better support and reinforce postdoctoral education in medical fields. Imagination and creativity are positioned as central human skills to inner development and needed to build more human-led practices that nurture positive emotions in others. These abilities are discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective integrating philosophy, positive psychology, and neurocognitive science research.
Creativity and Madness Conference
ACCME | APA | ASWB | AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Online. July 30, 2026
APRIL
Living with Imagination & Optimism
4-Week Online Course
Reclaim your imaginative powers by slowing down and self-reflecting, and learn how to identify and dismantle your internal barriers and integrate imagination into everyday life to strengthen well-being and create positive impact. Sitting at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and well-being, this course is an invitation to explore the symbiotic imagination and mind-body connection, as well as to discover what is getting in between us and reaching our potential.
School of Radical Imagination
Live Course – Online – Global. April to May, 2026
Living with Imagination & Optimism Workshop
This workshop is an invitation to reclaim your imaginative powers by slowing down, playing, and co-creating brighter, hopeful futures. You will learn techniques to deliberately tap into your imagination, and reimagine your relationships with yourself, with the community, and with the world. Living with imagination will inspire you every day in all aspects of life, bring happiness and joy, making you more resilient and optimistic.
BCYF Roslindale Community Center
Boston, MA. May, 2026
Past Events
Rest, Reflection and
Well-Being Workshop
The New Year is traditionally a time to rest, recover and reflect on goals, values, habits and routines. This hands-on workshop will invite participants to reflect on their own well-being, drawing on methodologies from design futures, positive psychology and mindfulness. Come ready to playfully engage in imagining your next 300 days using evidence-based tools for increased self-awareness and inner growth.
Center for Design Conversations Series.
Northeastern University. This event was hybrid.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 @ 12:00 — 1:30 pm
Pure Imagination! Workshop
In this workshop, attendees learned the science behind imagination and the main barriers. They practiced a range of techniques to identify their own barriers and strategies to overcome them, gained confidence imagining individually and collaboratively, and experienced its positive effects. Attendees walked away feeling hopeful and empowered to use their imagination in their daily life and at work.
Roslindale Branch of the Boston Public Library
Boston, MA. January 15, 2026
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