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Creative problem-solving

See your challenge from a different angle.

What guides the work

A useful new idea often begins with a better question. We make room to challenge familiar assumptions and explore possibilities before deciding what deserves your time. Your values help decide which possibilities are worth pursuing and who should benefit.

How we design it

Bring a problem that feels stuck. We reframe it, generate alternatives, and use practical constraints to choose a small experiment you can actually try.

What progress looks like

A clearer view of the challenge, more workable options, and a next step that teaches you something. You leave with a way to keep exploring when the first answer falls short.

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Examples from the work

Creative problem-solving participants

A room built for ideas

Participants described more openness, listening, and ease in being creative during the work.

City of Long Beach

Creative problem-solving

Employees used structured methods to question assumptions, generate options, and test an idea.

A practice for making more ideas available.

Dr. Robert Epstein’s Generative Creativity names four conditions that support creative work: capture, broaden, surroundings, and challenge.

Capture

Keep ideas, observations, and questions where you can return to them.

Broaden

Seek unfamiliar inputs and make connections across subjects, people, and experiences.

Shape the surroundings

Change the prompts, tools, and room so the usual answer does not take over.

Challenge

Use constraints, “Yes, and” improvisation, and small pilots to develop an idea, learn, and scale what holds up.

Mindfulness can support this work as an attention practice: notice where your mind goes, return to the question, and listen before you react.

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Generative Creativity in practice: Use capture, broader inputs, intentional surroundings, and challenge to make more useful ideas available.

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