Host a Conversation

If you would like to get involved in hosting a Conversation in your area, contact Project Management Associate Cary Gitter at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 212-875-5537. Conversations may range from small gatherings to larger public events. Suggested preliminary steps: Think about building a planning coalition with other organizations that share your vital interest in imagination. Consider a focus for the Conversation: on what state challenges do you want to bring imaginative thinking to bear? The Host Site Kit will provide guidelines to help you select an experienced moderator and invite a diverse group of panelists and similarly diverse audience.

Lincoln Center Institute will advise host sites.

Take a Workshop or Course in Imaginative Learning

Fostering imaginative learning has been at the core of Lincoln Center Institute’s acclaimed arts curriculum since its inception. LCI currently offers continuous professional development to teachers in K-12 schools and teacher educators at colleges and universities. Workshops are developed and taught by Institute staff and teaching artists.

Through the Lincoln Center Institute International Educator Workshops, customized consultancies, and online courses, Lincoln Center Institute is meeting the needs of school districts, schools of education, and cultural organizations across the country and the globe.

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• International Educator Workshops
• Consultancies
• Online Courses

Find a Way to Exercise Your Imagination

At the heart of Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility, authored by Scott Noppe-Brandon and Eric Liu, is a set of universal practices for opening minds at work, home, and play. These 28 (and a half) practices, with titles like Think Inside the Box, Break the Hand, and Routinize Randomness, are designed to enable anyone—from corporate executive to platoon seargeant to preschool teacher—to get unstuck, to reframe challenges, and to help others to do the same.

Purchase the new, enhanced paperback edition.