B822 Residential School : Facilitating Creative Thinking
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Wednesday, 7 Mar 2012, 16:05
Facilitating creative thinking
Imagery and metaphor Group Fair 7 workshops 5 electives General precepts Specific techniques Overall methodologies
To tackle concerns that really matter to you. Reflecting on practice and networking Understand what can inhibit creativity in a group Self aware of how your own thinking may help or hinder Creative problem solving (CPS) solves problems but splitting the process into a series of stages.
STAGE ONE
Exploration of and definition of the problem. Open up: explore different angles. Clarification. Ask why? Repeatedly. Or the nub of the problem expressed as. 'how can we ...' QQ for clarification only. Individuals write up an expression of the problem (as provocatively as they like). The client chooses one. QQ redefined the problems using what if ... or a strange way of looking at this ... or it could be likened to ... or I wish that ... Close down: select key problem N.B. use your skill in judging which technique is most appropriate for the problem as presented.
STAGE TWO
Alternative ways of dealing with the problem. Generate ideas and plans Open up: consider alternative ideas Close down: select preferred option
STAGE THREE
Work out the implementation of the way forward Open up: plan supporting action Close down: undertake action
STAGE FOUR
Evaluate Open up: monitor progress Close down: adapt action Seems rigid, in practice it is more relaxed and iterative (like a squad session plan, then more intuitive and tailored. The mind is not like the body, and the outcomes are far less easy to define compared to the need to 'go faster for longer'. Getting off the 'mental tramlines'. VS premature evaluation To see something from various perspectives To force the mind to go beyond its usual assumptions
B822 Residential School : Facilitating Creative Thinking
Facilitating creative thinking
Imagery and metaphor
Group Fair
7 workshops
5 electives
General precepts
Specific techniques
Overall methodologies
To tackle concerns that really matter to you.
Reflecting on practice and networking
Understand what can inhibit creativity in a group
Self aware of how your own thinking may help or hinder
Creative problem solving (CPS) solves problems but splitting the process into a series of stages.
STAGE ONE
Exploration of and definition of the problem.
Open up: explore different angles. Clarification. Ask why? Repeatedly. Or the nub of the problem expressed as. 'how can we ...'
QQ for clarification only.
Individuals write up an expression of the problem (as provocatively as they like). The client chooses one.
QQ redefined the problems using what if ... or a strange way of looking at this ... or it could be likened to ... or I wish that ... Close down: select key problem
N.B. use your skill in judging which technique is most appropriate for the problem as presented.
STAGE TWO
Alternative ways of dealing with the problem.
Generate ideas and plans
Open up: consider alternative ideas
Close down: select preferred option
STAGE THREE
Work out the implementation of the way forward
Open up: plan supporting action
Close down: undertake action
STAGE FOUR
Evaluate
Open up: monitor progress
Close down: adapt action
Seems rigid, in practice it is more relaxed and iterative (like a squad session plan, then more intuitive and tailored. The mind is not like the body, and the outcomes are far less easy to define compared to the need to 'go faster for longer'.
Getting off the 'mental tramlines'.
VS premature evaluation
To see something from various perspectives
To force the mind to go beyond its usual assumptions