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According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% (…)
Creative base
- Handbook
Youth workers are very often in the position of group leader – as a trainer, moderator, teacher. In a group, people tend to behave (…)
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Just as Aikido uses the opponent’s force to defuse a potentially aggressive situation, Creative Aikido does the same. It uses ideas of others and (…)
- Handbook
One of the intentions of the creativity toolbox is to encourage youth workers to engage young people in the discussion about conscious future planning. (…)
- Activity
A group contract is a tool that is created to formalize the expectations of the group members. It allows participants to take an active role (…)
- Handbook
While conducting creative workshops (described here) you will definitely face group fatigue, creativity blocks and running out of ideas and innovative energy. This is (…)
- Handbook
During our Imaginarium project we asked youth workers from Ireland, Poland, Finland, France and Luxembourg what they needed to boost young people’s creativity. All of (…)
- Activity
In the exercise you divide young people in to a couple of groups of 4-6 participants. You tell them that they work for NASA (…)
- Handbook
One of the best lessons comes from making mistakes. This is why here you will find a few examples of incorrect assumptions that may (…)
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Teams brainstorm on ideas of possible use of a specific item. It could be anything: a shopping bag, bandana, paper clip etc. The bottom (…)
- Activity
This exercise is a great way to connect ideas and build complex solutions.You can use this method when your team comes up with a (…)
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You can use this method when your team comes up with a large amount of ideas that need to be narrowed down and selected. (…)
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This is a great interactive energizer which you can use with a group when people are tired and their energy is low. It’s an (…)
- Activity
When you start to notice fatigue of the group when doing creativity work, the best way to support them is to take a break (…)
- Activity
Just as Aikido uses the opponent’s force to diffuse a potentially aggressive situation, Creative Aikido does the same. It uses the ideas from others (…)
- Activity
This group exercise works well when some of the team members are experiencing creativity blocks and are finding it difficult to come up with (…)
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This group exercise can be done at the beginning of a creative process. It will illustrate the participants how to identify idea killers in (…)
- Handbook
Why give feedback? Feedback refers to a comment on an act or behaviour that either seeks to change or reinforce that act or behaviour. (…)
- Activity
According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% (…)
- Activity
This exercise can be especially helpful when a group is cynical about a subject or lacking energy. If you have members on your team (…)
