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MindPing Creativity Quick Start

• Decide what you are going to focus on, like a problem or a challenge.
• Have some note paper to hand to capture any useful new thoughts.
• Get comfortable and take a couple of slightly deeper breaths.
• Does your mind make a new connecting thought between the random word and the problem or challenge you are working on?
• Maybe you get a connecting thought, maybe many connecting thoughts, or maybe none.
• Click or tap to view a new random word from www.mindping.world and so on...

Using MindPing just for me

"When I want to get creative, what works for me?"

"When I need to get creative, what helps me?"

Three tips for your MindPing solo sessions

1. Practice MindPing solo sessions

To find out if MindPing works for you may take practice. Learning how you best work with mindping will be clear after some experimentation. Change the timings, locations and your mood for your experimental MindPing solo sessions to find what works for you.

2. General or specific MindPing solo sessions

Whether you are being creative in general, or working on finding a solution to a specific problem or challenge, simply letting your mind wander can allow new creative thoughts to surface. Or you can get help by adding in stimulus from another source, like random words from MindPing.

3. With or without evaluation in MindPing solo sessions

Analysis and action are essential, but can distract us from the creative thinking which analysis and action depend on. Use creativity to find and generate more thoughts, then use evaluation later to analyse the thoughts.

Simplest view of any MindPing session

Think about lists

We all work with lists all the time and MindPing is a great way to get important lists made, so the real work can start based on solid foundations. Just a few of the many lists MindPing has helped create:

• Concepts for a new brand
• Dependencies for starting a new project
• Moving house tasks
• Thoughts for a new piece of writing
• New blue sky ideas
• Possible strategies
• Facts about the detail of a problem
• Our most urgent issues
• Our most important concerns

Using MindPing in groups

"How can we use creativity to help shared work?"

"How can we make creativity the focus for the group?"

Four considerations for MindPing in groups and workshops

1. Ask delegates to practice using MindPing before the MindPing group session

Send these two links to your delegates.

2. Facilitating a MindPing group session

MindPing in groups can be self-organised, with delegates suggesting how to work as the session progresses. More common is the nomination of a facilitator to lead the session and keep a track of time and focus.

3. Roles in a MindPing group session

You can allocate timekeeper and note taker roles to session delegates. These roles can also be switched between delegates as the session progresses.

4 Purpose of a MindPing group session

Having a purpose for each MindPing group session is key. The purpose...

• Can include or exclude evaluation (recommend no evaluation until the end)
• Can be decided before the session or in the session
• Should be defined, agreed and written down (allow time for iterations, don’t rush)
• Can be changed once the session has started.

In reality a MindPing group session can focus on more than one purpose, with each purpose managed as above.