The Essential Rules of Brainstorming.

1. Collect as many ideas as possible from all participants with no criticisms or judgments made while ideas are being generated.
2. All ideas are welcome no matter how silly or far out they seem. Be creative. The more ideas the better because at this point you don't know what might work.
3. Absolutely no discussion takes place during the brainstorming activity. Talking about the ideas will take place after brainstorming is complete.
4. Do not criticize or judge. Don't even groan, frown, or laugh. All ideas are equally valid at this point.
5. Do build on others' ideas.
6. Do write all ideas on a flipchart or board (or in our case, in the forum) so the whole group can easily see them.

What say we continue to generate ideas for about 3-4 more days? After that, I will try to group them into themes that might lead to some "aha" kind of moments for some of us. I will give a first try at that exercise on Saturday morning (June 30).

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