Creative Facilitation

Collective Creativity

After many years of working in the design industry, a question we’re often asked is:

How can we harness creativity in our business environment?

It’s a reasonable question, every business needs more inventive thinking. There is a huge competitive advantage when you can out-think every one else.

And yet, if we simply tell everyone to be more creative, we’re inviting chaos and misalignment as everyone goes off in disconnected directions. Or we terrify people by starting a random brainstorm session where nobody knows what to say.

Saying all that, collective creativity is possible. With a little, err, creativity. And the right conditions.

Collective Creativity and Enabling Conditions.

We use four guiding principles to help people come together to creatively collaborate. Our method is structured enough to keep everyone on track while allowing plenty of space for novel ideas to bubble up.

1 Structured Constraints

Individual creativity is about chaos and randomness, but working as a collective requires plans and boundaries. A framework so everyone knows what they are doing. And a constraint to focus the mind, remove distractions and allow for controlled curiosity to flourish.

2 Controlled Curiosity

With so many ways to get information in the modern world, we tend to forget about our imaginations. Introducing a mix of mindsets, thinking frames and perspectives sparks novel ideas and solutions.

3 Active Participation

By design, everyone participates. Our methods are friendly and inclusive, nobody is expected to announce ten great ideas off the top of their head. We use different methods and tools that give everyone the space to contribute.

4 Commit & Do

Collective Creativity can reveal ways to change the world, but these big, exciting ideas are very hard to start. We make sure that every session ends with a way to get started, no matter how small an action it is.

Call to Action

From creative problem solving to finding opportunities for the next big thing, Humanosity’s creative facilitation approach is perfect for teams that want to take it to the next level.

Contact us today to get started.