Developing Ideas for Writers

Course Outline
Do you know your NLP from your Disney? This one day workshop gives you practical applications of both approaches plus a whole range of techniques for generating and developing ideas.

Workshop Objectives
  • • Have a range of practical creative thinking techniques to generate fresh ideas
  • • Communicate ideas more effectively
  • • Learn to look for ideas in unexpected places
  • • Develop the ability to see things from different angles and think beyond the obvious
  • • Learn to look for new connections and innovative solutions
  • • See how slowing your thinking can increase creativity
  • • Practise exercises to free up their imagination
Workshop Content
  • • Learn to communicate your ideas
  • • Think like Disney – three different perspectives
  • • Creative thinking techniques
  • • How to stimulate large quantities of ideas
  • • How to view possibilities from different perspectives
  • • Switching off to switch on
  • • How to use the power of imagination to visualise solutions and ideas
  • • Looking for ideas in unexpected places
  • • Association mapping: for brainstorming, planning and capturing informations
Tutor: Pamela Relton


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