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February 6, 2003
Winterfest, Day 2:Learning The CPS Two-Step
Posted by Renee Hopkins Callahan
My question’s been answered: Our Springboard facilitators are teaching us the dance that gives CPS its power.
We’re also learning how to frame the questions that drive this process, and the tools that help all along the way. But the basic step is in fact a two-step:
Step One - Diverge, or make a list
Suspend judgment
Go for quantity
Seek wild and unusual ideas
Combine with other ideas
Write everything down
Step Two - Converge, or make choices
Improve ideas
Judge affirmatively
Be deliberate
Consider novelty
Check with your objectives
We dip and sway across complex problems, dancing in and out of the lists and lists and lists we make. Diverging and converging at every stage of the process. “Round and ‘round the problem we go, developing a goal statement here, honing a problem statement there, brainstorming criteria, facts, ideas, and, finally, a solution and an action plan.
Tomorrow, we will practice on each other until hopefully by the end of the day we will not only be able to do this on our own, we will actually be graceful as we lead a client or a group through this dance.
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