Exercises for Divergent Ideation
Divergent ideation exercises open up options: rough ideas, wide associations, and permission to explore before anyone commits to a direction. They also strengthen Participation Architecture, spreading contribution beyond the loudest voices in the room. Use them when the group needs volume and range before convergence.
This category groups exercises by relationship stage, one of the eight purposes the library is organized around.
246 exercises
Make A World
Awestruck 3 Minutes
Spectrum Mapping
association - Project of How
How Might We…
Carousel
Skill Will Matrix • WorkshopBank
Image brainstorming - Project of How
Experience Quotes
SCAMPER • WorkshopBank
Personal Buzzfeed
12-3 Brainstorm
Random words! - Project of How
Idea boxes
Bodystorming
Power Position
Creative Problem Solving • WorkshopBank
Idea Speed Dating - Project of How
Individual Perspectives
50 Word Epiphany
Silly dancing - Project of How
Southwest Model Draw
Use Your Amygdala
The Emperor’s Thumb
Exercises - Page 2 - Project of How
What If
Responses to NO
Create Your One-Line Bio Together
Phone Stacking
Tableau - The Teacher Toolkit
TIME WASTERS
Place Your Bets
Divergent Thinking - Mind Map Style
Obama Argue it Out
Hot Potato Tags Timing
TGL: April 2009
Brain shifter - Project of How
Q Test
Business Books
Twenty-Two Habits for Better Creativity
TGM: March 2006
brainstorming - Project of How
Falling Off the Horse
idea generating - Project of How
Storyboard
Team Role Development • WorkshopBank
Image-ination
Silence - Netflix Style
Concerns in a Hat
mind mapping - Project of How
Movie Name Tags
Generate ideas - Page 2 - Project of How
Design Your Hierarchy
One Word Whip
Fishbowl
2-4-All Workshop • WorkshopBank
Brainwriting
idea volume - Project of How
People Science Phone-A-Friend
6 Building and Shifting the Discourse
8 Practicing Deliberation with Others
Phillips 6/6
Elephant in the Room
Back of the Napkin
say yes! - Project of How
Plus/Delta
Sex Ed Cards
4 Markers for Your Odds
Yellow Pages
Yes, but…
Build The Checklist
Too Fast Too Slow
Braindrawing - Project of How
Pie Chart Agenda
Nippon! - Project of How
speed - Project of How
Jeffersonian Meals
Social Loafing
Sound for the Source
NUF Test
How Might We (HMW)
Random Inputs
The Pitch
Triangles
New Personality Research
ZOOM: A Creativity Game
Deepening Table Top Conversations
auditory - Project of How
Affinity Map
Walk in the Door - Big Share
Affinity diagram
Rain Maker
Bring Your Own Dashboard
Cover Story
System Sculpting
Feedback - Plus/Delta
Luck in an Envelope
Team Puzzle
One Simple Post-It for Success
The Anti-Problem
TRIADS
Feel or Be in AWE
Mandela Strategies
Asynchronous Reciprocity
Crazy 8
Big Solutions in a Box Walk
Action Needed: Issue, Challenge, Idea, Purpose, Timing
Mount Rushmore
Air Time Mastermind
Force Field Analysis
dance - Project of How
TIME SAVERS
Who Are We?
Point to Present
Mapping Business Models
WhoDo
The Kipling method - Project of How
I’ve Got Questions
Product Pinocchio
Curiosity Quotient
Brainstorming
Whose Line Is It Anyway • WorkshopBank
Gamestorming
Pixar Critique Sessions
Fill-in-the-Blank Reward System - The Teacher Toolkit
SAFE-BOLD Framework
Whip Around - The Teacher Toolkit
Altitude
Structure projects - Project of How
visual - Project of How
Brainwriting • WorkshopBank
The Sunset
TGL: July 2009
Community Garden
Peacock Focus
Walk About
3-1 - The Teacher Toolkit
Saturate and Group
poster - Project of How
small groups - Project of How
build on ideas - Project of How
Mask Making
visualization - Project of How
Mapping Design Operations
Walking Backwards
Prune The Future
concept structure - Project of How
Switch it brainstorm - Project of How
create - Project of How
Post-Up
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