HOW TO THINK INSIDE THE BOX : The Immersive Experience

(Note: The Fulsom Street Fair is this weekend in SoMa... There will be no parking near the venue, however, the gallery is accessible via Harrison Street and Berwick Place.)

You've been trained to think outside the box. You've mastered the methods - design thinking, rapid prototyping, human-centered design, iterative development. You can execute complex creative processes with impressive efficiency.

And simultaneously you are experiencing a creative poverty - a cycle of repetitive productivity reaction - Something works → You repeat it → Repetition becomes habit → Habit becomes identity → Identity feels like reality → Reality seems fixed → Fixed reality requires method solutions → Methods applied from same unconscious position → Cycle reinforces. This pattern goes far beyond the workplace.

You're solving problems from one angle while forgetting angles exist.

Not because your methods are insufficient, but because your relationship to constraints has become unconscious. You've developed sophisticated techniques for problem-solving within predetermined frameworks while losing awareness that your positioning within those frameworks is itself a creative variable.

If this is you, this workshop is 100% for you.

You are a rarely aware creative.

Thinking Inside The Box is for designers and innovators who notice that they are applying increasingly sophisticated techniques to challenges that feel strangely repetitive. For teams whose brainstorming sessions generate predictable outputs despite novel prompts. For organizations that have mastered efficient execution while losing access to genuine creative exploration.

For techno-optimists who've begun sensing that method multiplication isn't addressing their actual creative limitation.

The work isn't comfortable. Developing conscious positioning requires temporary incompetence - deliberately abandoning your automated excellence to explore creativity relationships you've never considered. Your professional identity will resist this. Your efficiency addiction will protest.

Which is why, this workshop is an immersive experience.

In this immersive 90-minute journey you'll discover:

The 360° Looking Glass Technique

• Transform your perspective from fixed to fluid
• See life challenges from every conceivable angle
• Navigate creative constraints with newfound agility
• Master the art of productive constraint

Plus an exclusive session with The Gamelatron Project

You'll work inside a sonic sanctuary where your constraint relationships become immediately audible. When your positioning shifts, the acoustic environment reflects it. When you remain fixed, the sound reveals that too. No abstraction, no theory - direct experiential feedback on your relational intelligence with limitations.

You'll work inside a sonic sanctuary where your constraint relationships become immediately audible. When your positioning shifts, the acoustic environment reflects it. When you remain fixed, the sound reveals that too. No abstraction, no theory - direct experiential feedback on your relational intelligence with limitations.

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Founder of THE ÅLïEN SCõÖL for Creative Thinking (tÅs) and a passionate advocate for those alienated from their creative potential, Kamau brings decades of transformational experience from:

• Parsons School of Design | The New School, UN International School
• Agencies: McCann Worldgroup, Publicis, Dentsu, Momentum Worldwide, MKTG
• Brands: Jeep/Stellantis, Nike, Toyota, Diageo, NHL, NFL, Gatorade, Marriot
• Along with Global workshops across New York, Europe, Hong Kong, and Tanzania

• Ready to revolutionize your creative process
• Eager to break through perceived limitations
• Curious about the power of structured imagination
• Seeking to expand your problem-solving toolkit

"Kamau doesn't just teach—you leave feeling like you've unlocked a part of yourself you didn't know existed." —Participant, The New School Innovation Design, NY

"This workshop transformed the way I look at challenges. Looking from inside the box is a new kind of cognitive invitation." —Global Agency Leader

Where: Heron Arts, 7 Heron Street, Downtown San Francisco (Note: The Fulsom Street Fair is this weekend in SoMa... There will be no parking near the venue, however, the gallery is accessible via Harrison Street and Berwick Place.)

Investment: A portion of the proceeds supports the Gamelatron Project which has received grants and in-kind support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (through the Clocktower Gallery), The Trust for Mutual Understanding, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, The Experimental Television Center with The New York Council for the Arts, The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, Ableton Gmhb, The CEC Artslink, Scope Arts, Artist Wanted, The New Orleans Airlift, TechShop San Francisco

Capacity: Limited to 8 participants per session

1. Secure your spot through Eventbrite [Register Now →]
2. Prepare to transform your creative perspective
3. Join a community of boundary-breaking thinkers

Step into the box. Expand your universe. Transform your world.

Presented by THE ÅLïEN SCõÖL for Creative Thinking (tÅs)

Space is limited. Register now to secure your portal to creative transformation.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Heron Arts, 7 Heron Street, San Francisco, United States