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1. Workshop
Creativity

2. “Ha, Ha, Hahahahaha,
There is no reasoning here.
There’s no reasoning at all!
Ha,Ha, Hahahahaha”
Zen insight

3. Wisdom
To understand is not to grasp.

4. play
You are free in everything you can play with.

5. We work with what we can and dare to be aware of.
share

6. provoke
If an idea at first doesn’t sound absurd, then
there is no hope for it. (Einstein)

7. How?
The Answer to How is Yes.

8. 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!

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

10. Design
Form follows Function,
Function follows Form.

11. By facilitating space for others to participate,
cocreation and cohesion become present.
Facilitate
destiny

14. “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.

15. Koot’s Creation Square
4 ways to boost creativity
2. Destruction
1. Facilitation
What has to go? What should
How can we create space for new
change?
ideas together?
Inspire, to invest, coach, cocreate,
storytelling, dialogue, brainstorm Attack, overthrow, deconstruct, new
paradigms, question, create chaos.
3. Stillness
4. Play.
What comes up, what wants to be
What can I imagine or play design?
expressed?
Innovate, shape, play with, experiment,
Zen, listening, to observe, trusting, letting
make visible, do, use of arts, games
go

16. “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 won’t work,
bad idea, you don’t 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: They’ll 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."

17. 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,..

18. The best people to make a difference:
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Are aware what effect their contribution is having.
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Are a mixed group that loves and acknowledges each other.
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Do find likeminded people to share the burden and the pleasure.
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Break patterns and keep the flow going.
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Feel and act inspired. Experience helps.
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Keep it simple and loving or compassionate.

20. 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 yourself
Be open and willing to experiment and integrate all feedback
Play Design

21. “Cultivate Creative People, lack of ideas may be terminal.”
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Say yes
•
And…
•
Choose
to know*
*) Dare to look, dare to make a stand, dare to fail.

22. Divergence & Convergence
Breath everything in.
Filter what you need.
Blow out the rest.
Use what you have.
You can’t filter
Without inhaling everything.

24. Process design: steps
Design Appreciative Inquiry

26. Appreciative Inquiry
“4-D” Cycle Discovery
“What gives life?”
(The best of what is)
Appreciating
Destiny Dream
“How to empower, learn, Affirmative “What might be?”
and adjust/improvise?” Topic Choice (What is the world calling for)
Sustaining Envisioning Results
Design
“What should be--the ideal?”
Co-constructing

28. Building an Action Network
How does it work? What do we want to happen?
Knowledge & Insight Creative Tribe Design
Practical Foundations Cocreation & Networks
What do we have to do to How do we play it together
make it work? into existence?
Compare with the 3 questions: What do we want? What assets are needed? What behaviour is needed?

29. “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. Don’t take it so f***ing seriously.

30. Ground Rules
l AllIdeas are good.
l Note down everthing on mind maps or charts
l Really listen to each other.
l Keep appointed times.
l Seek shared grounds.
l Problems and disputes are noted, but not
‘solved’.
l Do not go into details..yet.

32. Cartoon
Ma ke a ca rtoon tha t
be s t de s cribe s the
cha lle nge
you a re in right now.

33. Question
Wha t que s tion
be s t cre a te s a pos itive
dire ction forwa rd?
ba s e d upon the ca rtoon

34. The Art of the Question I
Blockers Movers
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What’s the biggest •
What possibilities exist
problem here? that we have not thought
about yet?
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Why did I have to be •
What’s the smallest
born in such a change that could make
troubled family? the biggest impact?
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Why do they blow it •
What solutions would have
so often? us both win?
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Why do we still have
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What makes my questions
inspiring, energizing, and
those problems?
mobilizing?

35. Good Questions are:
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Simple and Clear
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Stimulate and inspire research and action
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Are essential and deepening.
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Questions arrived paradigms.
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Opens new doors and possibilities
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Are positive and empowering

36. DIScover
Ma ke a mindma p of a ll
P e ople , ne tworks ,
products
Conte xt, goa ls , e tc
involve d.

39. “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. “ Thomas A. Edison
Edward de Bono’s Think Hats
The White Hat is cold, neutral, and objective. Take time to look at the facts and
figures.
Process: What’s 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: What’s 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: . What’s happeing and how do we keep on track.

40. 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

41. “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?
What’s 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? What’s 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?

42. What Glasses do I put on?

43. “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.

44. “You can’t solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it in the first place.”
Alfred Einstein
Creatief thinking like Leonardo daVinci:
Curiosità: Seek the truth.
Dimostrazione: Take your responsibility.
Sensazione: practice observation skills and awareness.
Sfumato: Look into the shadow sides.
Arte/Sciènza: balance the male and female side of it all.
Corporalita: Integrate body and mind.
Connessione: Be (com)passionate

45. COCD quadrant: How to choose the best
ideas (conversion)
Ordinary Original
Unrealistic
Realistic

46. A strong new porfessional title is:
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Simple and clear.
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Invites to further investigation.
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Reveals the core of the issue.
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Offers freedom and inspiration to act.
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Opens new doors and possibilities
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Are positive and empowering

48. The Walnut

50. What book would
you write about your
insights of the day?
What’s 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?