The Freeflow session is NOW FULL.
This is a very special and exciting activity session that will last for the duration of lunchtime. Delegates who register for this activity session will have lunch delivered to them in the room that the freeflow takes place. This session will be an opportunity for students to explore what contributing to their community and to the global community looks like through connecting with community project leaders and developing their own projects. This session will be a great fit for delegates looking to have an impactful and sustained connection to a project that lasts beyond the day of the conference.
Introducing our panel of Creatributors for the Freeflow session.
Adam Millard, POP
What is your Creatribution?
POP – literally, place of possibility. I created POP as a goal setting workshop for various communities to which I am attached. Each POP seeks to create a place of possibility in which participants have absolute freedom to create their most audacious ten-year visions. With ten-year thoughts in mind, we then learn how to most powerfully support those visions as realities that we get to live in to through solid short and long term goal setting. Past POPs have included POPfitness, (with Vancouver’s health and fitness community), POPywib (with Young Women in Business), POPbow (with women’s offline networking gurus, Loaded Bow), and POPyouth (with students from Earl Marriott Secondary School in Surrey).
This year the theme for the conference is ‘Breakthrough’. What was your breakthrough moment? Or, what are you hoping to breakthrough?
My breakthrough moment was in realizing that my potential as a leader could be totally fulfilled and expanded by doing something that I loved (playing with people) and was passionate about (people living life to their fullest potential)
What are you hoping the delegates will get from hearing about your experience in the freeflow session?
I am positively expecting that each delegate who comes to this freeflow session will discover a means of contributing and generating income and resources through things that they love to do and are passionate about. There will be a lot of aha moments.
Aaron Vidas, Social Enterprise Strategies
What is your creatribution?
SHIFTED - we get very successful people to talk about a moment when life hit them upside the head and they had to shift their thinking to grow. Leading them to the success they’ve experienced today.
This year the theme for the conference is ‘Breakthrough’. What was your breakthrough moment? Or, what are you hoping to breakthrough?
Realizing I need to listen to my gut. It’s right 90% of the time. Still working on listening to my gut.
Rob Tubajon, 1 School 1 Day
This year the theme for the conference is ‘Breakthrough’. What was your breakthrough moment? Or, what are you hoping to breakthrough?
My breakthrough moment was when I realized that my actions, no matter how big or small, affect the global community. I thought that my own sphere of influence was limited to the people I could physically see and touch. As the perception of my influence shifted, so did my view on charitable giving.
What are you hoping the delegates will get from hearing about your experience in the freeflow session?
I would like them to look at how they individually contribute to the global community and help them foster their own ideas on how to find meaning in their own ways of charitable giving.
Chloe Gow-Jarrett, Shifted
This year the theme for the conference is ‘Breakthrough’. What was your breakthrough moment? Or, what are you hoping to breakthrough?
Creating Shifted allowed me to recognize that I was able to contribute to the development of the Vancouver community and the Ethiopian community, not just the community that I support in development in my work at lululemon athletica.
What are you hoping the delegates will get from hearing about your experience in the freeflow session?
I hope that the delegates will see that their greatest passions can be leveraged in a fun way to create new possibilities for themselves, their community and the world through Creatribution.
Graham MacLennan, dish’ED
What is your creatribution?
dish’ED: “refined menus, offbeat venues”
This year the theme for the conference is ‘Breakthrough’. What was your breakthrough moment? Or, what are you hoping to breakthrough?
My breakthrough moment was realising that I could access exactly what I wanted to from a professional field without formally entering that profession.
What are you hoping the delegates will get from hearing about your experience in the freeflow session?
Creativity initiates freedom. There are inumerable ways to “follow your passion”.
