Generate Ideas

With greater clarity on the situation, more information to understand it, greater clarity on the boundaries of what can be accepted, and a clear idea of what you want to achieve, turn now to generating ideas for an effective response. This exercise would benefit from input from a small group, including members of the community or groups affected. If this is inappropriate, it is often useful to have one-to-one meetings with individuals specifically generate ideas.


You might find some of the following techniques useful:

- Brainstorming. Generate ideas rapidly and freely without criticism for now
- Examine the points of intervention you identified in Step 1. What opportunities arise? What ideas does this suggest?
- Does this situation resemble or have the same pattern or structure as another, perhaps in a very different context? What worked – or didn't work – then?
- Reversal. Think: how would I go about creating the opposite of what I want…?