Additional Techniques
A growing reference list with links to other techniques worth using, posted elsewhere on this site.

Image-Streaming
Calling online the deeper, subconscious powers of your mind through visual imagery and verbal focussing. Includes group instructions.

Win-Win Finder
Incentive Equilibrium analysis finds solutions so both sides win.

High Thinktank
Application of post-Einsteinian discovery technique, including a 30-day challenge for you.

Toolbuilder
Using your best problem-solving methods to find even better methods.

Simply Waking Up With the Answer
Some easy methods to let you find answers overnight, or sooner.

Double-Entry A-Ha! Method (DEAM)
A really simple, easy, idea-generating and problem-solving device.

Evoked Sidebands
An adventure in building understanding.

Gravel Gulch
An easy 4-step procedure of stretching to see further possibilities.

Beachhead
Visualizing the future to bring back innovations as yet not dreamed of today.

Over the Wall
A guided imagery technique that leads you to discover answers waiting for you on the other side of a wall.

The Melville Pattern
Describing anything in excruciating detail unlocks an endless stream of fractal imagination and creativity. Guest article by Silvia Hartmann.

Beyond Methods
A 20-point checklist for success in problem-solving.

Dynamic Format
Simple procedures for running better, more productive meetings, groups, clubs and classes.

Taxonomy of Methods
An organized guide to these and all other such creative problem-solving (CPS) techniques.

Additional Techniques Worth Using

• Borrowed Genius
  Ask yourself, "What would a genius do?"
  
  
• Idea Generator
  for breakthroughs in science research.
  
  
• Mutual Listening
  for miracles in the classroom.
  
  
• Effective Problem-Solving: Using What We Know
  Includes updates to the Windtunnel method.
  
  
• Windtunnel!!!
  Insights from torrential outpourings.
  
  
• Freenoting
  The original torrential-outpour technique which pulls your best answers into focus of conscious awareness. Same dynamics as with "Windtunnel," only in a version which you can work when alone without a partner.
  
  
• "Build Ability to Understand"
  A great way to build your full understanding until your a-ha! comes. Just run this procedure in the context of your problem or issue situation, without trying to force it to yield a specific answer, and see what emerges for you.
  
  
• Crabapple
  Use metaphor to find answers.
  
  
• Walk in the Woods
  Attention-catchers give clues.
  
  
• Two Experiments
  Quick ways to get great answers — Basic Associative Process and Three Doors, exploring and using the instant problem-solving associative reflexes of your mind.
  
  
• AAA — Ask, Aware, Answer
  Christopher Gooch offers good tools to heighten awareness and let your subconscious find the answers for you.