A favorite technique for idea generating is to make connections and gather insights through reviewing word lists. I call it a Word Dance. You can use this technique to generate ideas for your April 15 – 21 WCIW 2015 celebration.
Years ago, I did a Word Dance on create, creator, creativity, creative, problem, solving and creation using the Oxford Thesaurus. Here’s the list for your use. It would be great to know your 5 words and how they combine to create your WCIW 2015 seed of celebration.
How to use these lists
Scan through and stay open to be energized by a few words. Select a few, maybe 5 from the entire collection. Then combine those words to create the way or ways you might celebrate WCIW 2015.
Note: Transcribing this list for you was a fascinating experience. Insights bubbled up.
Insight 1
The ask for WCIW 2015 and beyond. To create a way to celebrate creativity and innovation. Read through the CREATE word-list to get inside what that might mean for you. Autonomy rocks! Make sure to share your insights too. I think this is a great exercise.
Insight 2
The importance of clarity because each word – create, creator, creative, problem, solving and creation – has so many different meanings and associations.
CREATE
begin
breed
beget
bring
bring into being
cause
coin
compose
conceive
construct
contrive
design
develop
devise
draw
dream up
effect
engender
erect
establish
fabricate
fashion
father
forge
form
found
frame
generate
get
imagine
induce
initiate
invent
lead
make
manufacture
mastermind
occasion
organize
originate
output
pioneer
raise
rear
render
script
sire
spawn
start
think
think up
tum
weave
work
write
CREATOR
architect
author
cause
Deity
designer
father
founder
framer
God
initiator
inventor
lord
maker
mastermind
originator
prime mover
producer
source
stock
Supreme being
CREATIVITY
fancy
fantasy
imagination
ingenuity
originality
CREATIVE
artistic
brilliant
clever
imaginative
ingenious
new
novel
original
originative
productive
prolific
resourceful
revolutionary
seminal
slick
vivid
PROBLEM
business
can of worms
catch
challenge
complication
concern
conundrum
delinquent
difficult/difficulty
dilemma
disturbed
drawback
embarrassment
emotional upset
enigma
kettle of fish
fly
handful
headache
hitch
hornet’s nest
imbroglio
incorrigible
intractable
issue
job
lookout
maladjusted
matter
mess
mind-boggler
muddle
obstreperous
paradox
perplexity
pickle
poser
predicament
pressure
pretty pickle
puzzle
puzzler
quandary
question
refractory
reverse
riddle
rub
snag
snarl
static
stew
tough nut to crack
trouble
uncontrollable
ungovernable
unmanageable
unruly
worry
SOLVING
answering
clarifying
clearing up
cracking
deciphering
elucidating
explaining
explicating
figuring
figuring out
interpreting
making clear
making plain
puzzling
resolving
revealing
satisfying
sorting
tackling
unraveling
working
CREATION
beginning
birth
formation
genesis
inception
making
origin
start
What are your five words? What ideas come to mind for ways to celebrate WCIW 2015?
