Creativity and creative collaboration in innovation
Creative Facilitation is the art of leading a team through a creative process in order to solve problems or generate new, shared visions and opportunities for organizations. Getting everyone on the same page in an open and trustful atmosphere of creative collaboration demands special care and attention.
Date May 14 and 15 2025 Group size 8-16 participants Location Industrial Design Engineering TU Delft Deadline May 12 2025
In this two-day program the focus will be on developing and deliberately applying the most important 21st century skills: ‘creative thinking’ and ‘problem solving’. The masterclass will provide an opportunity to expand your knowledge of creative techniques and processes and learn from experience through real-life cases. Creative Facilitation uses the fundamental concepts of Industrial Design Engineering to create and elaborate ideas into workable solutions.
Curriculum
After this masterclass you will be able to apply creativity in a deliberate way in your daily work whenever you need it: Whether it concerns inventing and developing new concepts in a project team; solving complex issues with a multi-disciplinary group; convincingly facilitating a creative session for a client; or in case you need an intervention to make the weekly team meeting more effective.
Learning Objectives
During this master class, you will learn to
apply the principles and ground rules of deliberate creativity in groups
guide a group through a creative process
select and apply effective creative techniques
organize and facilitate creative processes for specific problems or issues
I used these tools in practice right away.
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Participant
The class provided very useful methods and insightful feedback.
Her approach to groups is described in the practical handbook: Road Map for Creative Problem Solving Techniques, including 40 techniques on how to organize and facilitate creativity in group sessions. In 2022 she launched a Dutch book on individual creativity techniques as well: 101 ideeën voor ideeën
Location: Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft
9:00
Welcome and coffee
9:30
Introduction Who's Who Overview Programme Objectives Expectations
10:15
General overview Creative Facilitation Interactive session to dive into:
Creative Process
Principles and ground rules for deliberate creativity in groups
11:15
Typical issues for Creative Facilitation - problems and opportunities Interactive session with participant input What kind of questions could one face as a Creative Facilitator? Short intro on problem definition
12:30
Lunch at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering
13:30
Example Session - detailing all the steps Learning by doing - going through a typical Creative Facilitation process step by step
15:30
A multitude of techniques for idea generation
15:30
Preparing your own session Developing (part of) a session
Selecting effective techniques
16:30
Learnings
Sharing experiences of these sessions
Reflection & Recommendations
17:00
Time to relax
Location: Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft
9:30
Start New thoughts, ideas and expectations for this second day
10:00
First part of the session Problem analysis and problem redefinition
11:15
Second part of session Multitude of idea generation (diverging) techniques
12:30
Lunch at Industrial Design faculty, Delft
13:30
Third part of the session Acceptance finding & presentation
14:30
Reflection Learn from experience by reflecting on it.
15:00
Lecture on Group dynamics & the facilitator Facilitation as a leadership style / process consulting
16:30
Closure and Drinks Q&A Checking outcomes with expectations What's next?
Practical Information
How to prepare?
In order to kickstart the masterclass, we would like to know already a few things about you prior to the start. Therefore, please e-mail us your answers to the following questions about your experience and your goals by April 11th:
About your experience: what kind of experience do you have with creativity, creative processes or with facilitating in general? Can you briefly describe that.
About creativity techniques: which creativity techniques do you know already, or have you used before? (Either as participant or as facilitator)
About your personal goals: which three things (e.g. skills) do you hope to develop during this training?
Materials Hand-outs of all lectures will be provided with space for personal notes. All materials provided are included in the course fee. Participants will receive the book ‘Road Map for Creative Problem Solving Techniques - Organizing and facilitating group sessions’ By Katrina Heijne and Han van der Meer.
The Class itself The first day will be oriented towards introducing approaches and techniques, supported by exercises. The second day will be more oriented towards experiental learning and reflection in practice.
After the course Two months after the course, a pre-set consultation timeslot will be offered to all participants to share experiences and ask questions to the IDE Master Class. The format and the timing will be discussed with the participants during the IDE Master Class.
Training material
During the training the practical handbook Road Map for Creative Problem Solving Techniques will be used as a guide.
Costs Master Class
€ 950
standard
€ 850
for members of BNO, KIVI IO, HumanFactorsNL
€ 750
for IDE alumni
Courses are VAT-free Lunch, drinks, material and book are included
Reduction
€ 100
for each additional Master Class per organisation in 2025
