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CreativityLateral ThinkingIdeation
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Description
Inspire creative and lateral thinking to generate innovative ideas
Templates
What is it?
A technique to encourage creativity and lateral thinking by stimulating the creative right hemisphere of the brain. Focus on future possibilities, hope, ideas and opportunities are encouraged.
When to use it?
- When defining an ideal future/situation
- Defining ways to achieve a specific goal
- Defining what you want
- Generating a large number of ideas
How to use it?
- Set the scene: think about the process and the question you are trying to answer.
- Using an optimistic approach and being filled with hope, stay focused, energetic and positive.
- Put yourself in the situation and questions and using some post it notes start generating ideas.
- 1 idea per post it. Stick them on the wall as you go.
- Then cluster and keep going if you can.
- Consider/emphasise the following:
- Think of the ideal future
- Take yourself to the future and imagine you are there
- Generate as many ideas as possible as quickly as possible
- Have fun: anything goes (there is no right or wrong)
Potential Questions, ideally:
- Where are you? What have you achieved?
- What are you thinking/feeling/doing?
- What have you gotten rid of?
- What have you gained?
- What are others saying about you?
- In your wildest dreams...?
- Review: Review the ideas, identify the most important ones and formulate realistic goals. Identify the ones that can be used to formulate possible strategies to achieving the specified goal