Background
Did you ever have a secret friend to whom you told all your problems? Do you have an inner voice that helps you solve problems? Are they out to get you? If you answered yes to all three questions, you may want to obtain professional counseling!
If you answered yes to the first two questions, you may want to delay treatment. Apparently, many people listen to an inner voice for guidance. For instance, General Douglas MacArthur supposedly conjured up his hero-father for advice on military strategy. The poet Milton called his inner guide “Celestial Patroness” and described how she helped him compose his writings.
I’m not suggesting that we all have a little person living inside us. Instead, I believe we all have subconscious motives, impulses, feelings, and images. All this material has tremendous potential as a vast, untapped reservoir of creativity.
The problem is that we can’t always access our subconscious on demand. We have no set of commands or buttons to push to enter our subconscious minds. Instead, we have to enter them more indirectly. One way to access our subconscious thoughts is to create a personal, internal mentor.
Objectives
• To help participants generate as many creative ideas as possible
• To help participants learn how to use the activities to generate ideas
Participants
Small groups of four to seven people each
Taken From : Pfeiffer 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity
