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Celebrate the book

Do some creative thinking

Change the ending

Stories that matter…

• The idea

• The writers

• The endings

Why this is so important…

• Open up new possibilities

• Engage/energise

• Creative teams perform better

• Voice and influence

Change and creativity

• I’m not creative

• The tyranny of evaluation

• If it’s not embarrassing /exposing, it’s probably not that interesting…

Creativity is helped by…

• Structure and space

• Experimenting and detail

• Persistence and self-awareness

For the next 15mins…

Stretch your imaginations

• No-one will see it!• Inner editor banned• Go with the process• Ideas unlimited

Quick letting go exercise…

Write a letter in the corner of your page

(not j,k,q,u,x,y,z)

Scribble down

as many words as you can that start with

that letter….

…that describe you!

Lie, embellishwrite the opposite

What your mum /kids /distant relative might say about youJot down words about your

younger/older self names of places, where you

would like to beHow do you imagine yourself

as a superhero…

…fill the page!

Caped crusader

Rebecca Smith Buckinghamshire CC

Work in pairs

.. One of you makes a suggestion…

And talks about it for one minute

If you’re stuck try this…

“We should set up a department for

lessons learned…”

For a minute or so… Your partner

only responds with

No but…

For the next minute

your partner responds only with…

Yes and…

Situation + what if’s…

Stephen King (more personal and looser)

1. Pick a situation or a question…(something real… something you are challenged by/ intrigued about…)

2. Think of a picture - related in/directly - a physical location, a person… (in your frame…. describe or draw a detail of that picture, start filling it in)

What if?

Work with your neighbour…

Create 5 “what-if’s?”

e.g. put yourself in the pictureinvert /subvert something

remove a given…reveal an emotion

help comes unexpectedly

Lessons in corporate parenting

Kersten EnglandYork City Council

Wouldn’t it be great if?

Triple H

Mark RogersBirmingham City Council

Change the ending

Not just stories….Stories with a purposethat we create and live

Big thanks

• Enjoy the read / rest of the day

• dawn@dawnreeves.com

• T: @futuredawn

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