Dream Journaling as a technique for finding creative solutions
Sleep And Dream Journaling as a technique for boosting creativity and finding
creative solutions
1. Authors
Patricia L. Garfield “Creative Dreaming” (1974, 1995), Stanley Krippner, Joseph Dillard...
C. Jung’s “16 associations” test as a problem solving method
Exercise-test "16 associations"
1. Author and history
Carl Jung created and began to use the word association test in the 1910-1916 to unravel the subconscious. He...
Freewriting – Subconscious creative technique
Freewriting
1. Authors: Louise Dunlap, Peter Elbow, Natalie Goldberg and Mark Levy
2. History
Such writers as Nikolai Gogol, William Yates, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Anatole...
“What if?” – A powerful creativity and possibility thinking technique
"What if?" - creativity, possibility thinking and problem solving technique
1. Authors: Edward de Bono, Paul Sloane
2. History
The "What If...?" technique is rooted in Thought...
Role Playing as a Creative Problem Solving Technique
Role Playing
1. Authors. Rick Griggs, Michael Michalko.
2. History
Role Playing as a group brainstorming method invented during the 1980’s by business guru Rick Griggs. Later...
Reversal (Inversion) as a creative problem solving technique
Reversal (Inversion) as a heuristic methods to stimulate creativity
1. Authors
Carl Jacobi, Alex Osborn, Bob Eberle, John R. Dixon, Charles Thompson, Edward de Bono, Anatoliy Esaulov, Genrikh Bush,...
Lotus Blossom Technique
Lotus Blossom as a creative technique for generating new ideas
1. Authors
Thomas Eliot, Yasuo Matsumura, Michael Michalko
2. History
This method was first applied by Thomas Eliot...
40 Inventive Principles in classical and modern TRIZ
40 Inventive Principles for resolving
technical contradictions
Genrich Altshuller discovered forty patterns of inventive solutions, known as 40
Inventive Principles. (TRIZ – Theory of Inventive Problem Solving).
The analysis...
TRIZ – method of enhancing creativity and generating breakthrough innovations
TRIZ - Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
Etymology and abbreviations
TRIZ is the Russian acronym for the "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving" (literally: "theory of the...
Mind Mapping for creativity and innovation
Mind Mapping techniques for creative
problem solving
1. Author Tony Buzan (2 June 1942 – 13 April 2019) was a British writer, researcher and educational...
The Six Thinking Hats as a tool for creativity and innovation
The Six Thinking Hats for creative problem solving
1. Author
Edward de Bono (born May 19, 1933, Malta), British psychologist and writer, physician and inventor, founder...
Wishful Thinking – creativity technique for breakthrough innovation
Wishful Thinking as a tool for Creative Problem Solving
1. Author
Arthur Van Gundy (May 24, 1946 – May 5, 2009) was an American communication professor,...