Think New — Creative Thinking for Life

The Problem

"Many of us believe creativity belongs to artists, or that we simply are not creative. In PISA 2022 only about one in two 15-year-olds believed their creativity could grow. Yet everyday creativity, finding a fresh way round a small problem, is a skill anyone can practise, and it matters more as AI does more of the routine thinking."

What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

Come up with ideas that differ in focus and method, not more of the same
Get past the obvious to ideas that are original and still work
Improve an idea while keeping its heart, your own or someone else's
Use AI to widen your ideas without losing your own voice

The science behind it

What you'll learn

PISA's three moves: generate diverse ideas, generate creative ideas, evaluate and improve ideas
Classic techniques: SCAMPER, brainstorming, brainwriting 6-3-5, mind maps, random words, provocation and analogies
Ways to improve ideas: plus, minus, interesting; dreamer, realist, critic; inventive principles; six ways of looking
Roger von Oech's ten mental locks, how to open each, and his four creative roles

What's included

Everything you get

46 tools across 8 modules: 33 built for this course, including a Creative Toolbox of classic techniques, and 13 from the FlourishIQ library
A reader for every module, built from the tools and checked against them
An audio guide on every tool, a course audio guide and a talk video for every module
Private fillable workbooks for every tool, kept on your own device

Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For a final-year school learner, a student or any adult who would like to think more freely and more usefully, at school, at work, at home or in a community group. No art skills are needed: everyday creativity counts. Teachers and facilitators can use the group techniques with a class or team.

Everyone can think creatively, and it grows with practice. Built on the OECD's PISA 2022 framework for creative thinking, this course teaches its three moves in everyday life: come up with different ideas, find an original idea that still works, and improve an idea, your own or someone else's. It then takes them into problems with people, puzzles worth testing and creating with AI while keeping your own ideas first, and ends with a creative habit of your own. A Creative Toolbox of classic techniques sits beside the eight modules, each credited to its originator.

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Different ideas, original ideas that work, and better ideas

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