ENGAGING NEW MODELS OF CREATIVE COLLABORATION IN A 21ST CENTURY LANDSCAPE

An immersive professional retreat for true 21st Century Leadership. Designed for emerging leaders in business, higher education, and the arts, this unique program focuses on the whole leader. By combining transformative tools from the worlds of and business innovation, participants develop internal skills in focus, heart-mind-body, and peak performance, as well as external skills in collaboration, empathy, and engagement.

Deeper Performance Studies

EMPATHY • COLLABORATION • INNOVATION • TRANSFORMATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP • SELF-PERCEPTION • MINDFULNESS PERFORMANCE • MEMORY • FOCUS • HEART-MIND-BODY INTEGRATION

AN IMMERSIVE 3-DAY PERSPECTIVE-SHIFTING EXPERIENCE• OCTOBER 25-28 Taking place at the Bloomington Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center EXCITE | DPS

INTRODUCTION THE PROGRAM EXCITE-DPS is designed to empower and Through this personal journey, participants inspire high-performing emerging artists as will learn to strengthen both their inner and well as leaders in business, higher education outer selves to shift their perspective and and the not-for-profit sector. Led by renowned increase performance and focus in all areas. Frederic Chiu and innovation expert Jeanine Esposito, this three-day immersive For the internal self... retreat is available to innovative, emerging Apply mindfulness for greater focus, leaders in performance, education, business, deeper learning and understanding. Build and not-for-profit arts organizations. emotional awareness to channel emotions for centeredness and peak performance. With a limit of just 16 participants, this unique Use mistakes as fuel for learning. Use self- experience combines deep performance observation to improve performance at all skills from the music world with the tools of levels. collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship from the for-profit world. For the external self... Harness the power of true collaboration. Use design thinking to uncover motivational OUTCOMES insights. Stretch the brain to innovate. Transform ideas through iterative design. Use • A deeper understanding of self the tools and spirit of entrepreneurship to • A greater ability to focus one’s emotional make ideas real. Use storytelling concepts to energy engage community, customers and audiences. • An ability to effectively collaborate and engage the world • An ability to develop innovative, transformative solutions WHEN AND WHERE • An ability to connect more deeply and harness energy for peak performance October 25-28, 2018 • An ability to develop empathy, connect Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Center 3655 and engage with audiences, customers and S Snoddy Rd, Bloomington, IN 47401 communities SIGN UP: WWW.EXCITE-DPS.ORG

AN IMMERSIVE THREE-DAY RETREAT • OCTOBER 25-28, 2018 EXCITE | DPS

integrates DPS concepts into his masterclasses and THE MENTORS is a regular speaker at conferences on the subject of peak performance, focusing his decades of personal experience into insights and techniques that benefit all FREDERIC CHIU aspects of performance, such as Stage Fright, Memory, world-renowned pianist and Collaboration.

Frederic Chiu performs in major Chiu is co-founder of Beechwood Arts & Innovation venues on five continents: Lincoln with Jeanine Esposito. Center, the Kennedy Center, The www.fredericchiu.com Chatelet in Paris, the Mozarteum in Buenos Aires and has played in all 50 United States, to much JEANINE ESPOSITO critical acclaim. He collaborates and tours with other leadership & innovation pioneer world-class musicians such as , Pierre Amoyal, Gary Hoffman, the St Lawrence String Quartet Jeanine Esposito is a leader, & Bob James. Chiu is know for his innovative and speaker, mentor and champion collaborative programs that connect the audience of innovation and collaboration to Classical Music in new ways, such as his own across Business, Learning transcriptions, his Classical Smackdown series, and Institutions and the Cultural Arts. collaborations with storyteller David Gonzalez, actor An early pioneer of innovation and Brian Bedford and the clown Buffo. He has released design thinking, Jeanine founded over 27 recordings, including the complete piano an innovation consultancy over works of Prokofiev, and works of Debussy, Chopin, 20 years ago to lead Fortune Liszt, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Rossini, Schubert, 500 clients such as PepsiCo, Kimberly Clark, Gurdjieff and Grieg. Aetna and United Healthcare through innovation programs, processes and tools that have become the Chiu’s ground-breaking workshop series, Deeper cornerstone of today’s best practices. Performance Studies, brings a philosophic and holistic Heart/Mind/Body perspective to performing and She recently founded Innovation Builders and the practicing. Hundreds of professional and EXCITE teaching series to bring the the skills of other performers have attended DPS workshops to innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship deepen their engagement with their creativity and to Education, Libraries, Cultural Arts and Non- themselves. The American Pianist Association has profits. Through this new venture, she works with awarded DPS attendance as a prize to its finalists. Chiu staff, students and learners to teach them how to

AN IMMERSIVE THREE-DAY RETREAT • OCTOBER 25-28, 2018 EXCITE | DPS

become collaborative innovators and shift PARTICIPATION their perspective to transform themselves and their organizations to reach new heights. LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE! Her EXCITE program recently received a 2 EXCITE-DPS is open to emerging artists, higher education year grant from the Institute of Museum and professionals, not-for-profit leaders, and for-profit leaders.Be a part Library Services to bring this learning to of the launch of this unique innovative program! Libraries across the US. PARTICIPATION COST Jeanine also co-founded Beechwood Arts with Early Bird Participation Fee $500 (Reg: $1,000) Frederic Chiu. Beechwood is an award-winning Deadline: September 15 cultural arts & innovation non-profit, that SIGN UP: WWW.EXCITE-DPS.ORG creates collaborative events, bringing together world-class artists in music, visual arts, film and even culinary arts to collaborate around meaningful themes to produce immersive events that connect artists and communities SCHEDULE around the world. She is herself an award- DAY I: 4:00pm-9:00pm DAY 2: 8:30am-9:00pm winning Visual Artist. • Arrival, introduction of participants • EXCITE 360° Immersion to Build www.innovationbuilders.org and instructors Empathy www.beechwoodarts.org • Introduction to the EXCITE-DPS • EXCITE Ideation session Retreat • DPS Using Meditation to Identify • Becoming a Collaborative Innovator Internal Motivation EXCITE-DPS is hosted and supported by the • Dinner: Collaboration Through • Team Design Sessions ’s Cooking 1 • Dinner: Collaboration Through Office of Entrepreneurship & Career Development. Cooking 2

DAY 3: 8:30am-6:30pm DAY 4: 8:30am-3:00pm

• EXCITE The Power of Prototyping, • DPS Performance Prep Iteration, Storytelling • Final Performances • Team Development & Practice • EXCITE-DPS Reflection and OECD • DPS Managing “Stage Fright” For Feedback OFFICE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP Peak Performance • Bringing EXCITE-DPS Tools, AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT • Team Refinement and Practice Language, & Concepts to Innovate • Free Evening, Dinner Out in Your World & Closing Exercise

AN IMMERSIVE THREE-DAY RETREAT • OCTOBER 25-28, 2018