Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) Techniques

What’s in this index

• Descriptions of Techniques: an index of instructions for various CPS techniques
• Essays: These are essays about CPS techniques, and do not include instruction
• Additional Techniques: these are links to additional problem-solving techniques worth using, that are found elsewhere in this archive

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Descriptions of Techniques

Image Streaming

• Welcome to Image Streaming
  A Practical “Talking Paper” on Image Streaming Training.
   
• Image Streaming
  Calling online the deeper, subconscious powers of your mind through visual imagery and verbal focusing.
   
• Image Streaming for Groups
  A great natural resource.
   
• Image Streaming Back-Up Procedures
  Special Insert for those who did not at first “get pix”
   
• Image Streaming in Brief
  A concise summary for quick reference.
   
• Key Follow-Ups on Image Streaming
  Checklists to ensure you get to do the real thing—and get to experience the real benefits.
    
• Dream Realms
  An experimental process based on Image Streaming — Guest article by Michael Campbell.

Other Techniques 

• Write More Freely and Effectively
  An immediate path for any writing task! No waiting for inspiration, no writer’s block.
   
• An Immediate Path for Any Creative Task
  It works every time, as easy as watching a movie in your mind.
   
• Windtunnel
  This process has become a favorite among many creativity experts and creative problem-solving professionals.
   
• Win-Win Finder
  Incentive Equilibrium analysis finds solutions so both sides win.
  Summary of Steps to Basic Win-Win Finder
   
• High Thinktank
  Application of post-Einsteinian discovery technique, including a 30-day challenge for you.
   
• Toolbuilder
  Using your best problem-solving methods to find even better methods.
   
• Simply Waking Up With the Answer
  Some easy methods to let you find answers overnight, or sooner.
   
• Double-Entry A-Ha! Method (DEAM)
  A really simple, easy, idea-generating and problem-solving device.
   
• Evoked Sidebands
  An adventure in building understanding.
   
• Gravel Gulch
  An easy 4-step procedure of stretching to see further possibilities.
   
• Beachhead
  Visualizing the future to bring back innovations as yet not dreamed of today.
   
• Over the Wall
  A guided imagery technique that leads you to discover answers waiting for you on the other side of a wall.
   
• The Melville Pattern
  Describing anything in excruciating detail unlocks an endless stream of fractal imagination and creativity. Guest article by Silvia Hartmann.
   
• Beyond Methods
  A 20-point checklist for success in problem-solving.
   
• Dynamic Format
  Simple procedures for running better, more productive meetings, groups, clubs and classes.
  Read this article in Arabic

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Essays

• Introduction: Free Resources
• Invitation to thinktanking: Why Civilizations Rise and Fall
• Preface:  Einstein and Socrates
  Two historically powerful systems of thought combined
• How You Can Discover the Best Answer Yourself
  A guide to using your personal resources to find good answers for almost any problem, situation, or opportunity.
• Taxonomy of Methods
  An organized guide to these and all other such creative problem-solving (CPS) techniques.
• Solving Problems
  Equipped with the right tools, YOU are more than a match for almost any problem, challenge or opportunity.
• Solving Problems Now
  In these difficult times, you already have the techniques to solve many of the daunting problems facing society…
• A Huge Untapped Resource
  Turn Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) Methods into Learning Methods.
• Special Letter to Creativity Leaders
  Our response to several congratulatory letters recently received regarding our breakthrough success at St. Andrews Country Day School in Buffalo, NY.
• Opportunity for CPS in Schools and Education
  Every one of the hundreds of different methods for creativity and for ingeniously solving problems, now successfully in professional use around the world, can also serve as an amazingly effective method for learning.
• How to Wield Your Idea Butterfly Net
  Recording your ideas reinforces the habit of being observant, perceptive and creative, and it strengthens your own high creativity.

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Additional Techniques

• Borrowed Genius
  Ask yourself, “What would a genius do?”
• Idea Generator
  for breakthroughs in science research.
• Mutual Listening
  for miracles in the classroom.
• Effective Problem-Solving: Using What We Know
  Includes updates to the Windtunnel method.
• Windtunnel
  Insights from torrential outpourings.
• Freenoting
  The original torrential-outpour technique which pulls your best answers into focus of conscious awareness. Same dynamics as with “Windtunnel,” only in a version which you can work when alone without a partner.
• Build Your Ability to Understand Everything!
  A great way to build your full understanding until your a-ha! comes. Just run this procedure in the context of your problem or issue situation, without trying to force it to yield a specific answer, and see what emerges for you.
• Crabapple
  Use metaphor to find answers.
• Walk in the Woods
  Attention-catchers give clues.
• Two Experiments
  Quick ways to get great answers — Basic Associative Process and Three Doors, exploring and using the instant problem-solving associative reflexes of your mind.
• AAA — Ask, Aware, Answer
  Christopher Gooch offers good tools to heighten awareness and let your subconscious find the answers for you.