101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

symbols, there should be little hesitation in drawing them. Much the same can be said

about preliminary ideas in the formative stage.

Also consider having the participants debrief using the following questions:

• What was most helpful about this exercise?


• What was most challenging?


• What can we apply?


• How would you rate the value of this exercise to helping us with this issue?


• Will this exercise be helpful in the future for other sessions?


• What did you learn?


• What will we be able to use from this exercise?


• What ideas were generated, and which ones were most interesting?

Variation

• Have the participants draw three or four symbols individually and then share them
  with the rest of the group to use as idea stimuli.

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