Speaking, Events, & Workshops
Kaile speaks to academic, creative, and professional audiences, and regularly presents her research at international conferences. Her talks and workshops draw on cognitive science research and firsthand experience working with creative teams to explore inspiration, creativity, well-being, and creative work.
PUBLIC WORKSHOPS
Experiential workshops developed for public and creative audiences, integrating research, reflection, and practice.
Recent workshops include:
Inspired States: Opening to Possibility & Creative Action
Drawing Presence: Mindful Drawing for Well-Being
Seeing with Wonder: Accessing States of Awe & Creative Expansion
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CORPORATE & APPLIED WORKSHOPS
Custom-tailored workshops designed for organizations and creative teams applying psychological science to creative work.
Recent workshops include:
The Science of Creative Risk-Taking
Using Emotion as a Tool for Creativity
Neuroaesthetics for Design Practice
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PANELS, FACILITATION & COMMUNITY
Interdisciplinary conversations on arts and creativity through the Creativity Research Network, including panel discussions, journal clubs, and invited guest speaker events.
Select events include:
Creative Conversations: An Intimate Conversation Between 3 Artists and 3 Scientists
The Creative Brain: From Myths to Modern Science
Altered States: The Science of Psychedelics & Creativity
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ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
Empirical research presented at national and international conferences focused on psychology, creativity, and cognitive science.
Recent talks include:
Cultivating Creativity Through Inspiration: Causal Mechanisms and Individual Differences
Upward Spiral or Creative Hangover? Contrasting Emotional Aftermath of Creative Activity in Individuals with a Creative Background versus a General Sample
How We Use Creative Activities to Regulate Our Emotions
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Invitations & Collaboration
Kaile is available for invited talks, workshops, panels, and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Invited Talks & Workshops
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Oct 2025Inspired States: Opening to Possibility and Creative Action Workshop
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Sep 2025Drawing Presence: Mindful Drawing for Well-Being Workshop
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Aug 2025Seeing with Wonder: Accessing States of Awe and Creative Expansion Workshop
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Aug 2025The Creative Brain: From Myths to Modern Science
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Sep 2024Creative Conversations: An Intimate Conversation Between 3 Artists & 3 Scientists
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Oct 2024Mind Matters: Cultivating Creativity and Resilience in Scientific Research
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Dec 2023Real Life, Real Creativity: Assessing Creativity in Everyday Contexts
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Oct 2022Inspiration & Creativity
Conference Talks
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Mar 2026On Stimulating Creativity: Evidence from Experimental and Interventional Studies
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Mar 2025Does Inspiration Enhance Divergent Thinking?
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Sep 2025Cultivating Creativity Through Inspiration: Causal Mechanisms and Individual Differences
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May 2025Upward Spiral or Creative Hangover? Contrasting Emotional Aftermath of Creative Activity in Individuals with a Creative Background vs General Sample
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May 2025The Art-Creativity Paradox: Understanding Creativity’s Role in Affect Improvement
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Mar 2025Measuring aesthetic experiences to creative behavior: New psychometric tools for understanding arts engagement, inspiration, and creative action
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Mar 2025Construction and validation of the Trait Inspiration Scale: A new measure of individual differences in inspiration
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Sep 2024Unlocking everyday creativity (and its benefits) through fostering inspiration
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Sep 2024How we use creative activities to regulate our emotions
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Sep 2024A mixed-methods approach to mapping the multifaceted nature of inspiration in daily life
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Aug 2024Developing and Validating a New Scale for Measuring Inspiration
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Mar 2024Inspired minds: From inspiration-seeking and aesthetic influences to catalyzing creativity and growth
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Mar 2024Mining and modeling experiences of inspiration in daily life
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Mar 2024What we talk about when we talk about inspiration
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Sep 2023Investigating daily inspiration and creativity in creative and non-creative individuals
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Aug 2023Exploring the well-being benefits of daily creativity in creative and non-creative individuals
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Aug 2022Highly inspired and highly creative? Towards an ecology of inspiration and its relationship with creativity, emotions, and flourishing
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Aug 2022Inspired to create: The role of inspiration in creativity, motivation, and well-being
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Sep 2021The creative life: A daily diary study of creativity and well-being in the highly creative
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Sep 2021Creativity, affect, and flourishing in creative individuals
Moderated Panels & Conversations
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Jan 2026The Creativity Choice with Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
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Dec 2025The Creativity Choice (Winter Book Club)
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Oct 2025Reconsidering Divergent and Convergent Thinking
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Oct 2025Navigating Creativity: On Self-Regulation of Creative Action (with Dr. Aleksandra Zielińska)
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Sep 2025Unlocking Creative Potential in Students
- Jul 2025Can Going on Vacation Make You More Creative?
- May 2025Enhancing Creativity with Neurofeedback (with Simone Luchini)
- Apr 2025The Case for Curiosity
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Mar 2025Surviving and Thriving in Graduate School
- Mar 2025What Makes a Poem Creative? The Science of Poetry
- Feb 2025Altered States: The Science of Psychedelics & Creativity
- Jan 2025Art in the Age of AI
- Nov 2024Lost in Stories: The Neuroscience of Immersion
- Oct 2024From Artistic Creation to Aesthetic Reception
- Aug 2024Awe’s Role in Enhancing Creativity
- Jun 2024Science of Architecture: Aesthetics & Human Experience
- Apr 2024Creativity Research in Focus: Looking Back & Moving Forward
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Mar 2024Surviving and Thriving in Graduate School
- Dec 2023The Art of Mindfulness
- Nov 2023Audiovisual Immersive Experiences
- Oct 2023Is Inspiration Contagious?
- Nov 2022Creativity, Playfulness, & Improv Theatre
- Sep 2022Creativity & Emotions
- Jun 2022Narrative Cognition Training
- May 2022Creativity & Attention
- Apr 2022Art Museums & Flourishing