The process of creative thinking is not something that can be taught.  However it is something that can be encouraged.  There are a few steps to encouraging creative thinking.  First of all, you must break your current mental habits.  If you approach things in your mind the same way every time, you are not going to come up with a creative and possibly better solution to an issue.  Then you must understand your own why you do things the way you do.  Finally you must then try to come up with new ideas and solutions by approaching problems differently to how you would normally.

This is an area where group participation in a workshop will work very well.  When in a group, people find it easier to come up with new ideas, or to take other people ideas and change them into something else.  The more people discuss problems, the more they are able to approach these problems from different directions, to come up with creative solutions to problems.

It is important that people realise that you cannot be trained in how to think creatively.  All that can be done is to provide exercises and training on different ways to apply and practice the skill rather than train how to think creatively.

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