workshop creativity

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Creativity

Ha, Ha, Hahahahaha, There is no reasoning here. Theres no reasoning at all!
Ha,Ha, Hahahahaha Zen insight

WisdomTo understand is not to grasp.

playYou are free in everything you can play with.

shareWe work with what we can and dare to be aware of.

provokeIf an idea at first doesnt sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. (Einstein)

How?

The Answer to How is Yes.

Dream

People, organizations and systems move in the direction of the most frequently asked questions. Aim and frame your question thus as positive as possible!

DISCOVER

The Target is to find the root of success and to frame it.

DesignForm follows Function, Function follows Form.

Facilitate destinyBy facilitating space for others to participate, cocreation and cohesion become present.

You want to sail where? Flat Earth believers to Columbus.

Principles of Creativity:

Creative Outlook: Do you consider yourself creative? Habits, choices and obstacles.

Creative Techniques: Tools, Tricks, Tips.

Creative Processes: questioning, clarification, divergence, convergence, emergence.

Applications: problem solving, invention, transformation, finding new directions.

Koots Creation Square
4 ways to boost creativity

2. Destruction What has to go? What should change?

Attack, overthrow, deconstruct, new paradigms, question, create chaos.

3. Stillness

What comes up, what wants to be expressed?

Zen, listening, to observe, trusting, letting go

4. Play.

What can I imagine or play design?

Innovate, shape, play with, experiment, make visible, do, use of arts, games

Facilitation

How can we create space for new ideas together?

Inspire, to invest, coach, cocreate, storytelling, dialogue, brainstorm

Stress is the best way to think in stereotypes and old patterns. John Cleese

Creativity Killers:Blockage: this is not allowed, we tried this before, that wont work, bad idea, you dont know enough, Assumptions: all limiting frames of mind: it has to be original, I am not creative, mistakes are forbidden, they want it this way, there is one right answer, the answer is (not) here,Interests: Expected outcomes, positions, political games and interests, bound by relationships or expectations.Fears: Theyll think I am/we are crazy, can I control the outcome?, NB: Never, never, never converge (=criticize ideas or input, kill bad ideas) while diverging.

Thomas Watson, builder of IBM, in 1943: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

So what makes it blossom?

Play with it, be frivolous, ask any stupid question, be a rebel, challenge assumptions, be ambiguous, postpone criticism, be inspired, follow intuition, visualize, dream, say yes, explore, experiment, take lateral steps, create new connections, dare to take risks, accept frustration, first diverge then converge,..

The best people to make a difference:

Are aware what effect their contribution is having.

Are a mixed group that loves and acknowledges each other.

Do find likeminded people to share the burden and the pleasure.

Break patterns and keep the flow going.

Feel and act inspired. Experience helps.

Keep it simple and loving or compassionate.

Empower people by letting them co-create, since it must work for them.Make things reality as soon as possible: do not guess, but experience yourselfBe open and willing to experiment and integrate all feedbackPlay Design

Cultivate Creative People, lack of ideas may be terminal.

*) Dare to look, dare to make a stand, dare to fail.

Say yes

And

Choose to know*

Divergence & Convergence

Breath everything in.Filter what you need.Blow out the rest.Use what you have.You cant filterWithout inhaling everything.

Process design: steps

Design Appreciative Inquiry

DiscoveryWhat gives life?(The best of what is)AppreciatingDreamWhat might be?(What is the world calling for)Envisioning Results

DesignWhat should be--the ideal?Co-constructing

DestinyHow to empower, learn,and adjust/improvise?Sustaining

Appreciative Inquiry 4-D Cycle

AffirmativeTopic Choice

Building an Action Network

Cocreation & NetworksHow do we play it together into existence?

Practical FoundationsWhat do we have to do to make it work?

How does it work?Knowledge & Insight

What do we want to happen?Creative Tribe Design

Compare with the 3 questions: What do we want? What assets are needed? What behaviour is needed?

The only sacred cow is irreverence. Therefore dare to play with everything.

De 7 rules of Great Brainstorming:1. Postpone Judgement. What is good or interesting about this idea? 2. Liberate your imagination. Dare to dream/fantasize.3. Quantity = Quality. The more ideas the better.4. Cross Polinate. Think and/and. Seek synthesis and integration. 5. 3 x +++ (if someone rejects an idea, another may ask for three advantages of the idea)6. Follow the energy. Let it flourish, avoid idea stoppers. 7. Dont take it so f***ing seriously.

Ground RulesAll Ideas are good.

Note down everthing on mind maps or charts

Really listen to each other.

Keep appointed times.

Seek shared grounds.

Problems and disputes are noted, but not solved.

Do not go into details..yet.

Cartoon

Make a cartoon that best describes the challenge you are in right now.

Question

What questionbest creates a positive direction forward?based upon the cartoon

The Art of the Question IBlockersWhats the biggest problem here?

Why did I have to be born in such a troubled family?

Why do they blow it so often?

Why do we still have those problems?

MoversWhat possibilities exist that we have not thought about yet?

Whats the smallest change that could make the biggest impact?

What solutions would have us both win?

What makes my questions inspiring, energizing, and mobilizing?

Good Questions are: Simple and Clear

Stimulate and inspire research and action

Are essential and deepening.

Questions arrived paradigms.

Opens new doors and possibilities

Are positive and empowering

DIScover

Make a mindmap of allPeople, networks, productsContext, goals, etc involved.

The White Hat is cold, neutral, and objective. Take time to look at the facts and figures.Process: Whats the case? What do we need to know?

The Red Hat represents anger (seeing red). Take time to listen to your emotions, your intuition.Process: What emotions are we dealing with? How involved are we?

The Black Hat is gloomy and negative. Take time to look at why this will fail.Process: What are critical conditions? What are the criteria? What obstacles need to be overcome?

The Yellow Hat is sunny and positive. Take time to be hopeful and optimistic.Process: What are the possibilities? What more is possible? Trust and follow the energy!

The Green Hat is grass, fertile and growing. Take time to be creative and cultivate new ideas. Process: Whats coming up? How can we realize this?

The Blue Hat is the color of the sky, high above us all. Take time to look from a higher and wider perspective to see whether you are addressing the right issue.Process: . Whats happeing and how do we keep on track.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. EdisonEdward de Bonos Think Hats

DO YOU?

Stand alone
Live fearlessly
Act heroically
Want to be free and true more than anything else
Take unconditional responsibility for oneself
Face everything and avoid nothing
At all times see things impersonally
Live for a higher purpose

Andrew Cohen on authentic leadership

Truths are illusions from which we have forgotten they are illusions. Friedrich Nietsche

The Alchemistic process 1

Earth: What is stuck in this? What are the inmoveble objects or elements?What is the material side of this? Budget, means, people. How to use them.Water: What is fluid in this? What can be changed, transformed? What are the relationships and emotions that influence the outcomes? Whats the discussion? How to communicate?Air: what are the images concerning/influencing this? What decisions need to be taken? Fire: Where is the fire? What do we want (to change)? What are our intentions? Whats the purpose?Ether: What is the bigger picture? How does this process fit in the bigger pattern? How are we, or do we want to be, changed by it?

What Glasses do I put on?

When a answer at first does not seem absurd, then there is no hope for it. Alfred Einstein

Creative thinking like Einstein

Find the right problem: The better the definition the more room and possibilities.Break through patterns: as much in your own thinking as in ruling paradigms.Evade, break and or reframe the rules: take the opposite or hide them.Trust Emergence to happen: walk in the park, talk to strangers, let it go, tell it to a child as fairy tale.Seek new conditions: invent new words, symbols, parameters (different pricing, different customers, different categories, different process), seek new dimensions, angles, strategies and criteria.Visualize problem to understand and develop. Use concrete metaphors.

You cant solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it in the first place. Alfred Einstein

Creatief thinking like Leonardo daVinci:

Curiosit: Seek the truth.Dimostrazione: Take your responsibility.Sensazione: practice observation skills and awareness.Sfumato: Look into the shadow sides.Arte/Scinza: balance the male and female side of it all.Corporalita: Integrate body and mind.Connessione: Be (com)passionate

COCD quadrant: How to choose the best ideas (conversion)

Unrealistic

Realistic

Ordinary

Original

A strong new porfessional title is: Simple and clear.

Invites to further investigation.

Reveals the core of the issue.

Offers freedom and inspiration to act.

Opens new doors and possibilities

Are positive and empowering

The Walnut

What book would you write about your insights of the day?

Whats the title? And the subtitle?What kind of book is it?What does the back cover promiss?What are the chapter titles?What the conclusion?

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