The Workshop Book

2	CHAPTER TWO The workshop approach

Workshops use a method of creative thinking. The creative thinking method is a way of approaching a topic in a new way, in order to find new solutions. We often hope that we will come up with great ideas immediately, but if we focus too early on finding the right answer, we cut short our creative thinking. We stop ourselves from creating truly great ideas if we limit how ambitious we are at the beginning.

‘The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.’

Linus Pauling

The key to creating great ideas is to have lots of ideas first – even if most of the ideas are not right, they lead to others that are. Even if you are coming up with ideas that are too ambitious or impossible to implement, those ...