IDEAS-Generate/Facilitate/Training
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Actually we are all seeking solutions!
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Ideas come first and most solutions need many ideas to make them truly work.
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Why might you need ideas or to learn how to facilitate strong idea sessions?
1. new perspectives
2. new directions
3. spark ideas in your staff
4. break the boxes you may be in
5. explore new possibilities
6. increase morale and staff involvement
7. solve more problems
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As an architect, graphics/signage designer, interior designer, freelance writer and cartoonist, television newswriter and weekend desk editor, college professor and as a speaker and consultant focused on the development of C,R,E,8,N,G! Communities from the front and read doors to the top floors of organizations I have been
1. generating ideas
2. facilitating the generation of ideas with clients
3. teaching people how to generate ideas and how to facilitation idea generation since 1960.
In the past 30 years of my involvement with the CREATIVITY MOVEMENT through presenting and attending many creativity conferences I have gathered a global network of colleagues: consultants, authors, researchers, professors and speakers who are also experts at generating ideas, facilitating idea generation and teaching of both sets of skills.
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I (Alan), and my various colleagues of CP3-Cre8ng People, Places & Possibilities around the globe are highly skilled idea generators, facilitators of idea generation sessions and trainers of people in how to generate ideas and facilitate idea generating sessions.
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We offer 3 services to our clients:
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I. Idea generation for the client
II. Idea generation with the client (Facilitation)
III. Training of Idea Generation & Idea Session Facilitating.
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A Gross of Ideas
- 144 examples of how to increase ideas for helping your employees, teams, volunteers generate Ideas
Creative Thinking Tools & Techniques
we use a variety of thinking S.T.A.M.P.S. = Systems – Tools/Techniques – Approaches/Attitudes – Methods – Processes – Strategies to help clients and their people generate large quantity of ideas that are then narrowed down to produce the creative solutions they are seeking to solve their problems or create new products and services
Listed below are samples of some fun IDEA GENERATION sessions that were done using the internet world-wide.
Ideas by the Ton
Often on the internet I have challenged my cyberspace friends to develop 144 or more ideas in a short period of time. The ideas usually come from a dozen or more countries and we usually have hit the 144 mark within less than 24 hours. Here are a few collections of the ideas.
So far we have developed ideas, for fun, for…
- improved bank/credit union services
- winning against squirrels at bird feeders
- using a Barometer to measure a building
- protecting a rented parking spot
- ideas about how to generate ideas
- 1 + 1 = So Many Ideas
The ideas as collected are shared here for your amusement.
Here is a GROSS (144) Ideas of where, how, when to find, generate, create, discover ideas from existing to new to highly creative to breakthru ideas.
1 being the model for the nude drawing class
2 building a dog house
3 camping in a tent
4 camping in a trailer
5 camping under the stars
6 canoeing
7 canoeing over a waterfalls
8 canoeing thru white water
9 changing the words to a familiar song
10 chewing bubble gum
11 chewing rubber bands
12 cleaning out the garage, attic, closet
13 cleaning your bathroom
14 climbing a tree
15 cooking-following a recipe
16 creating a new meal
17 day dreaming while gazing at a globe
18 decorating your Christmas tree
19 diving into a pool
20 drinking alcohol
21 driving new roads
22 driving regular routes
23 dusting
24 eating in a new resaurant
25 eating your favorite ice cream flavor
26 enjoying a beverage
27 exploring a cave
28 exploring an art museum
29 exploring an history museum
30 finger painting
31 fixing your bicycle
32 floating in a swimming pool
33 floating in a vat of jello
34 gambling
35 gardening
36 gazing at the stars
37 going to a crafts fair
38 going to amusement parks
39 hanging laundry to dry
40 imagining a conversation with Da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Alexander
41 imagining that you are a super hero
42 in meetings….ha ha…almost never
43 just falling sleep
44 just waking up
45 laying a ceramic floor
46 learning another language
47 learning how to cartoon or caricature
48 learning Morse Code
49 learning something new
50 listening to records backwards
51 middle in the night waking you up
52 modeling clothes, things
53 painting a room
54 playing a musical instrument
55 playing board games with your kids
56 playing bridge
57 playing digital games
58 playing pinball games
59 reading Aesop Fables
60 reading backwards
61 reading greeting cards
62 reading magazines you don’t normally read
63 reading new books
64 reading old books
65 rewriting someone else’s poetry
66 riding a horse
67 riding on a airplane
68 riding on a bus
69 riding on a ferris wheel?
70 riding on a train
71 riding up a ski hill on a chair lift
72 riding your bicycle
73 rowing on a lake
74 running without a MP3 player
75 sailing
76 scuba on a reef
77 searching for meaning in every song on the Beatles White Album
78 shooting pool
79 sitting in a dentist chair
80 sitting on a camel
81 skydiving
82 sniffing glue
83 snorkeling on a reef
84 speaking a foreign language
85 speaking Pig Latin
86 spelunking (exploring caves)
87 spending time in nature
88 spending time looking at collectibles
89 studying people on the subway
90 taking a class on improv
91 taking nude drawing classes
92 touring a manufacturing plant
93 traveling to natural sites
94 visiting a day school
95 visiting a formal garden
96 visiting a library
97 visiting a research library
98 visiting Las Vegas
99 volunteering in a soup kitchen
100 waiting of a doctor’s appointment
101 walking a beach
102 walking across a bridge
103 walking backwards
104 walking in the woods
105 walking tight rope
106 walking up stairs
107 wall papering
108 wandering through a dollar store
109 wandering through a hardware store
110 wandering through Disney Land/World
111 wandering through toy stores
112 washing dishes
113 watching a Cir du Soleil show
114 watching a construction site
115 watching a magic show
116 watching a Star Trek Marathon
117 watching birds
118 watching children
119 watching fish
120 watching insects
121 watching movies
122 watching operas
123 watching plays
124 Watching television
125 watching TV with the sound off
126 watercolor painting
127 while at your desk…probably seldom
128 while doing the dishes or other simple tasks at home
129 while exercising
130 while in bath or shower?
131 while jogging
132 while riding, driving
133 while swimming
134 while walking
135 while working on something else
136 working on crafts
137 working on your car
138 working with your stamp collection
139 writing a mystery story
140 writing a song
141 writing an advertisement
142 writing articles about how you get, where you get ideas
143 writing poetry
144 writing your journal
Alan
creative thinking – creativity – creative problem solving – creative thinking consultant
