A search for beneficial surprise

I believe we will engage in a weeklong search for beneficial surprise, as Max De Pree has called it.  Real surprise - the totally unexpected. In a world so awash with images and insights, and in groups of people who as adults are taught to hide surprise because to show it would be a sign of weakness, that's hard to accomplish.

Creativity arises from discovering and connecting. Are our meetings and settings set up to support or hinder those two things?  What will aid our search for beneficial surprise? What does surprise look like? How does it make us feel - engaged or scared? powerful or stupid? Is our tendency toward intellectual disinterestedness or disdain the Baal of our organizations?