At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
Adult Education Classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago focusing on Innovation & Creativity
Here’s a great opportunity to learn something about Innovation & Creativity from the great instructors at the School of the Art Institute (SAIC) and in that very cool environment. Their spring offering of Adult Education [...]
WAMBATOSIS – A Creative Jumpstart for Your Next Meeting
I often get asked for suggestions for some sort of creativity exercise to include in a meeting to act as a spur, energizing the participants and getting their brains ready for a full day of [...]
50 Ways to Foster a Sustainable Culture of Innovation
I've partaken in quite a few discussion around how you go about creating a culture of innovation within a company. No matter how large and well-organized a company seems to be, very few appear to [...]
Scrooge-Proof Holiday Gathering:
• Something fun • Something different • Something everyone will enjoy • Something that gives back • Something they'll be talking about long after the Holidays are over What kind of an event could possibly [...]
Imaginative Customer Service
Imaginative Customer Service to “Take their Breath Away!” If you’re looking for a way to super charge your team on what real customer service means, we highly recommend "Take Their Breath Away(TM): How Imaginative Service [...]
Resetting Innovation -like Edison!
Resetting Innovation –like Edison! As the economy begins to show glimmers of improvement, we would like to share a great article in a recent newsletter about "Resetting Innovation" by our friend, Sarah Miller Caldicott, Great-Grand [...]
Huge Art Installation coming to Grand Rapids, MI
I'm sure most of us think that nothing all that cutting edge happens in Michigan, but I have to beg to differ. Deborah Adams Doering recently won a juried spot in ArtPrize 2009, an international [...]
Crowdsourcing an Opera – Taking Collaboration to a Whole New Level
From Jim Stewart: Micro-blogging service Twitter and London's Royal Opera House may not be seen as birds of a feather. Founded hundreds of years apart, one represents a stronghold of traditional high culture, the other [...]
Old Hotel Turned into Artists Canvas and Filled with Rooms of Inspiration for the Traveller
My brother just sent me an article about some local doings in Seattle that he knew would inspire me. And boy, did they! Here are a couple of folks after my own heart who [...]
At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
Adult Education Classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago focusing on Innovation & Creativity
Here’s a great opportunity to learn something about Innovation & Creativity from the great instructors at the School of the Art Institute (SAIC) and in that very cool environment. Their spring offering of Adult Education [...]
WAMBATOSIS – A Creative Jumpstart for Your Next Meeting
I often get asked for suggestions for some sort of creativity exercise to include in a meeting to act as a spur, energizing the participants and getting their brains ready for a full day of [...]
50 Ways to Foster a Sustainable Culture of Innovation
I've partaken in quite a few discussion around how you go about creating a culture of innovation within a company. No matter how large and well-organized a company seems to be, very few appear to [...]
Scrooge-Proof Holiday Gathering:
• Something fun • Something different • Something everyone will enjoy • Something that gives back • Something they'll be talking about long after the Holidays are over What kind of an event could possibly [...]
Imaginative Customer Service
Imaginative Customer Service to “Take their Breath Away!” If you’re looking for a way to super charge your team on what real customer service means, we highly recommend "Take Their Breath Away(TM): How Imaginative Service [...]
Resetting Innovation -like Edison!
Resetting Innovation –like Edison! As the economy begins to show glimmers of improvement, we would like to share a great article in a recent newsletter about "Resetting Innovation" by our friend, Sarah Miller Caldicott, Great-Grand [...]
Huge Art Installation coming to Grand Rapids, MI
I'm sure most of us think that nothing all that cutting edge happens in Michigan, but I have to beg to differ. Deborah Adams Doering recently won a juried spot in ArtPrize 2009, an international [...]
Crowdsourcing an Opera – Taking Collaboration to a Whole New Level
From Jim Stewart: Micro-blogging service Twitter and London's Royal Opera House may not be seen as birds of a feather. Founded hundreds of years apart, one represents a stronghold of traditional high culture, the other [...]
Old Hotel Turned into Artists Canvas and Filled with Rooms of Inspiration for the Traveller
My brother just sent me an article about some local doings in Seattle that he knew would inspire me. And boy, did they! Here are a couple of folks after my own heart who [...]