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.
210 exercises
Make a World
Awestruck 3 Minutes
Spectrum Mapping
How Might We
Carousel
Skill Will Matrix
Image Brainstorming
Experience Quotes
SCAMPER Idea Generation
Personal Buzzfeed
3-12-3 Brainstorm
Random Words
Idea Boxes
Bodystorming
Power Position
Creative Problem Solving Suite
Idea Speed Dating
Individual Perspectives
50 Word Epiphany
Silly Dancing
Southwest Model Draw
Use Your Amygdala
The Emperor's Thumb
What If
Responses to No
Create Your One-Line Bio Together
Phone Stacking
Tableau
Time Wasters
Place Your Bets
Divergent Thinking Mind Map Style
Argue It Out
Hot Potato Tags
Up And Down
Brain Shifter
Q Test
Business Books
Twenty-Two Habits for Better Creativity
Generations
Structured Sticky Note Brainstorming
Storyboard
Team Role Development Matrix
Image-ination
Concerns in a Hat
Movie Name Tags
Design Your Hierarchy
One Word Whip
Fishbowl
1-2-4-All
Brainwriting
Idea Volume Brainstorming
Phone-a-Friend Resource Mapping
Building and Shifting the Discourse
Practicing Deliberation with Others: Legislative Jury
Phillips 6/6
Elephant in the Room
Back of the Napkin
Plus/Delta
Sex Ed Cards
4 Markers for Your Odds
Yellow Pages Mashup
Yes, But...
Build the Checklist
Too Fast Too Slow
Braindrawing
Pie Chart Agenda
Nippon
Jeffersonian Dinner Discussion
Social Loafing Discussion
Sound for the Source
NUF Test
How Might We (HMW)
Random Inputs
The Pitch
Triangles
New Personality Research
Zoom Problem Ladder
Deepening Table Top Conversations
Affinity Map
Walk in the Door Big Share
Affinity Diagram
Rain Maker
Bring Your Own Dashboard
Cover Story
System Sculpting
Plus Delta Feedback
Luck in an Envelope
Team Puzzle
One Simple Post-It for Success
The Anti-Problem
Triads
Feel or Be in AWE
Mandela Strategies: UWT Reading Discussion
Asynchronous Reciprocity
Crazy 8s
Big Solutions in a Box Walk
Action Needed
Mount Rushmore
Air Time Mastermind
Force Field Analysis
Time Savers
Who Are We?
Point to Present
Mapping Business Models
WhoDo
The Kipling Method
I've Got Questions
Product Pinocchio
Curiosity Quotient
Brainstorming
Whose Line Is It Anyway
35 Prioritization
Pixar Critique Sessions
Fill-in-the-Blank Reward System
SAFE-BOLD Framework
Whip Around
Altitude
Brainwriting
The Sunset
Reaction Envelopes
Community Garden Planning and Action
Peacock Focus
Walk About
5-3-1 Summarizing Technique
Saturate and Group
Mask Making
Mapping Design Operations
Walking Backwards
Prune the Future
Switch It Brainstorm
Post-Up
Collaborative Life Drawing
Teaching Procedures
Fishbowl Panel
Choose Your Words Wisely
Forced Connections
Why It Won't Work
C.I.A. Crazy Idea Brainstorm
Read Weirdly and Widely
What is in Your Toolkit?
Visualize It!
Lo-Tech Social Network
The Basketball Team Retrospective
Round Robin Brainstorming
Flip It
Remember and Do Build
Atomize
Campfire
Status Center
How-Now-Wow Matrix
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