Keep the Creativity Flowing

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Keep the Creativity Flowing
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Goals

• Ways to prime the pump
• Hands-on, practical and fun
• Experience the techniques
• Take home and use
• Energized and refreshed

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Creativity in many forms
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Creating Something New

• two teams
• all-church event
• rules for brainstorming

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Yes, and
Oh, but
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When to use Yesand

• Productive way to start process
• Escape route from dead-end sessions
• Neutralizes the negative influence
• Your Ideas?
• Pick a project write it down

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Keep it Flowing

• Pick a special location
• Come expecting great things
• Be dependent

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All Together Now

• uncover individual thought
• discover shared thinking

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Silent Discovery

• Post-it Notes
• Total silence
• Why come to MinistryCOM?
• Three reasons to come
• One reason not to come
• Work together to group responses
• Share results

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When to use Silent Discovery

• Data gathering/Message development
• Who are we?
• What are our strengths?
• What are our challenges?
• Why do we/you like this church?
• Gathered in silence, shared together
• Spawn discussion

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Keep it Flowing

• water
• water
• water
• bathroom break

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Sketchy Thinking

• give me a problem

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From Here to There

• Drawing 1
• Make a picture of the problem and how the problem
  makes you feel.
• Drawing 2
• Make a picture of how it would feel if you (we)
  solved the problem.
• Drawing 3
• Draw how to get from picture 1 to picture 2.

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When to use From Here to There

• Stressful/Negative situations
• Seemingly impossible tasks
• Want to see all sides of a situation
• Need to take the temperature of a team
• Need fresh thinking

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Keep it Flowing

• Never keep score of who came up with the great
  idea!
• Privately
• you really had a great idea
• you really moved the ideas along
• you really are a catalyst to get the group
  thinking
• you really laid low today
• Publicly - We develop great ideas

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Weve always done it this way

• Tom Monahan
• The Do-It-Yourself Lobotomy

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180 Thinking

• Usual whats been done before
• we start from the usual the expected
• 180 Thinking fresh thinking
• whats the opposite of whats expected
• work creatively from the opposite
• pushing-off point for new ideas

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180 Thinking lets try it

• Consumer product something you buy
• What is expected?
• What is 180 (opposite) of whats expected?
• Pushing-off Point for new ideas

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180 Thinking your world

• Ministry project or issue
• What is expected?
• What is 180 (opposite) of whats expected?
• Pushing-off Point for new ideas

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When to use 180 Thinking

• Inventing new starting from scratch
• Searching for the unexpected
• Undoing how youve always done things

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Keep it Flowing

• Intentional Inspiration
• Theme park, movies, magazines, mall
• Bookstore Web
• The Six Thinking Hats - Wikipedia
• Never throw brainstorming notes away
• Exercise
• Make your desk a playground

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Final Thought

• Present your ideas with great enthusiasm!

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Keep the Creativity Flowing
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