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Registration will be opening soon for CPSI Conference 2022, taking place June 26-30. First time attendees will learn practical skills and tools to help access their creativity and solve problems more effectively, both at work and at home. Returnees will continue to focus on the industry’s most pressing issues. CPSI offers a refreshed sense of purpose, enlightened perspectives, a community of like-minded individuals, and the freedom to explore new ideas. #creativity #innovation #leadership #career #conference #CreativeProblemSolving

At the Creativity Centre, we have been researching and delivering courses on creativity development for well over 20 years and we especially value informal creativity development which may happen by accident or design in educational institutions, other organisations or everyday life.In this paper, the focus is on four ‘formal’ or ‘deliberate’ creative problem solving programmes:

• Synectics
• The Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Program (CPS)
• The De Bono programme
• KJ Ho

These programmes have been selected for review because they are widely used in one or more countries and/or because they have spawned a great many related creative problem solving programmes. Here, the term ‘problem solving’ is used in its psychological sense of ‘resolving anything puzzling or unclear’. This is a key function of all thinking and active learning, equally applicable to creativity in the arts, sciences, humanities and indeed life in general. This psychological notion of ‘a problem’ is different from its everyday definition in that it doesn’t necessarily imply anything negative. The first two programmes are of US origin and have spawned thousands of other programmes. De Bono’s work has had a significant impact too and is probably the best known in the UK, whilst KJ Ho is the most popular formal programme in Japan. All four programmes have specific procedures and terminology and whilst these differ, there are some similarities as well.

Robert Alan Black, a long time friend of ours, has spent many years travelling the world visiting other creativity experts and centres internationally. He works hard to promote links between international researchers, trainers and organisations interested in developing creativity. We are excited that Alan has agreed to be our international creativity blogger, he really does seem to know EVERYONE!