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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

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Awestruck 3 Minutes

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Spectrum Mapping

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

association - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

How Might We…

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Carousel

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Skill Will Matrix • WorkshopBank

Team Reflection · Under 5 minutes

Image brainstorming - Project of How

Prompted Conversation · Under 5 minutes

Experience Quotes

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

SCAMPER • WorkshopBank

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Personal Buzzfeed

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

12-3 Brainstorm

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Random words! - Project of How

Prompted Conversation · Under 5 minutes

Idea boxes

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Bodystorming

Applied Improv · 5 to 15 minutes

Power Position

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Creative Problem Solving • WorkshopBank

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Idea Speed Dating - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Individual Perspectives

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

50 Word Epiphany

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Silly dancing - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 60+ minutes

Southwest Model Draw

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Use Your Amygdala

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

The Emperor’s Thumb

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Exercises - Page 2 - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

What If

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Responses to NO

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Create Your One-Line Bio Together

Applied Improv · 5 to 15 minutes

Phone Stacking

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Tableau - The Teacher Toolkit

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

TIME WASTERS

Personal Disclosure · Under 5 minutes

Place Your Bets

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Divergent Thinking - Mind Map Style

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Obama Argue it Out

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Hot Potato Tags Timing

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

TGL: April 2009

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Brain shifter - Project of How

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Q Test

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Business Books

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Twenty-Two Habits for Better Creativity

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

TGM: March 2006

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

brainstorming - Project of How

Prompted Conversation · 30 to 60 minutes

Falling Off the Horse

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

idea generating - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Storyboard

Collaborative Story Building · 5 to 15 minutes

Team Role Development • WorkshopBank

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Image-ination

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Silence - Netflix Style

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Concerns in a Hat

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

mind mapping - Project of How

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Movie Name Tags

Name Learning · 5 to 15 minutes

Generate ideas - Page 2 - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

Design Your Hierarchy

Applied Improv · 5 to 15 minutes

One Word Whip

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Fishbowl

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

2-4-All Workshop • WorkshopBank

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Brainwriting

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

idea volume - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

People Science Phone-A-Friend

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

6 Building and Shifting the Discourse

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

8 Practicing Deliberation with Others

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Phillips 6/6

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Elephant in the Room

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Back of the Napkin

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

say yes! - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

Plus/Delta

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Sex Ed Cards

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

4 Markers for Your Odds

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Yellow Pages

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Yes, but…

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Build The Checklist

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Too Fast Too Slow

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Braindrawing - Project of How

Visual Thinking · 30 to 60 minutes

Pie Chart Agenda

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

Nippon! - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 60+ minutes

speed - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

Jeffersonian Meals

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Social Loafing

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Sound for the Source

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

NUF Test

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

How Might We (HMW)

Personal Disclosure · 5 to 15 minutes

Random Inputs

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

The Pitch

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Triangles

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

New Personality Research

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

ZOOM: A Creativity Game

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Deepening Table Top Conversations

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

auditory - Project of How

Prompted Conversation · Under 5 minutes

Affinity Map

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Walk in the Door - Big Share

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

Affinity diagram

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Rain Maker

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Bring Your Own Dashboard

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Cover Story

Workspace Ritual · 5 to 15 minutes

System Sculpting

Applied Improv · 5 to 15 minutes

Feedback - Plus/Delta

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Luck in an Envelope

Adventure Initiative · 5 to 15 minutes

Team Puzzle

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

One Simple Post-It for Success

Arrival Check-In · 5 to 15 minutes

The Anti-Problem

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

TRIADS

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Feel or Be in AWE

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Mandela Strategies

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Asynchronous Reciprocity

Asynchronous Remote Game · 5 to 15 minutes

Crazy 8

Visual Thinking · 5 to 15 minutes

Big Solutions in a Box Walk

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Action Needed: Issue, Challenge, Idea, Purpose, Timing

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Mount Rushmore

Collaborative Story Building · 5 to 15 minutes

Air Time Mastermind

Name Learning · 5 to 15 minutes

Force Field Analysis

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

dance - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

TIME SAVERS

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

Who Are We?

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Point to Present

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Mapping Business Models

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

WhoDo

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

The Kipling method - Project of How

Prompted Conversation · 30 to 60 minutes

I’ve Got Questions

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Product Pinocchio

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Curiosity Quotient

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Brainstorming

Prompted Conversation · 15 to 30 minutes

Whose Line Is It Anyway • WorkshopBank

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Gamestorming

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Pixar Critique Sessions

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Fill-in-the-Blank Reward System - The Teacher Toolkit

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

SAFE-BOLD Framework

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Whip Around - The Teacher Toolkit

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Altitude

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Structure projects - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

visual - Project of How

Visual Thinking · 15 to 30 minutes

Brainwriting • WorkshopBank

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

The Sunset

Visual Thinking · 5 to 15 minutes

TGL: July 2009

Ideation Warm-Up · Under 5 minutes

Community Garden

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Peacock Focus

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Walk About

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

3-1 - The Teacher Toolkit

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Saturate and Group

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

poster - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

small groups - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

build on ideas - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Mask Making

Visual Thinking · 5 to 15 minutes

visualization - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Mapping Design Operations

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Walking Backwards

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Prune The Future

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

concept structure - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Switch it brainstorm - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

create - Project of How

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Post-Up

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

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