Thinking & Intuition

Two complementary thought processes are often muddled.  One process, the intuitive, creative process is  sometimes referred to as right brain or alpha/theta state.  The other, the more empirical, concerns itself with "hard facts" and is often referred to as left brain or beta state.  Both are essential, and many challenges are better met through a "whole brain" approach. But you can't do "whole brain" if your not using both halves.  And a prerequisite to effective use of both halves is the effective use of each half.  

Most of us do little "thinking about thinking" and tend to muddle the two approaches.  People find surprising clarity and other benefits when they begin to appreciate the relative strengths their various thought processes.

1.  Explicit Thinking

This workshop teaches techniques and tools that force conscious, explicit analyses and, to the extent possible, strip away emotional bias and preconceptions.  This allows informed decisions. This workshop complements the Intuition Enhancement workshop, described at 2., below.

Sample Tools and Techniques

Workshops are tailored to client needs.  Sample tools and techniques may include, but are not limited to:

• Causal flow diagramming, classification of action sequences, Decision/event tree, Probability tree.
• Analysis through:  Contradiction, Working backward.
• Specification and Subgoals/issues.
• Specification and Generalization loops.
• Utility analysis, Utility matrix and Utility tree and Weighted rankings.
• Relations between problems and simpler analogous problem; analogy and alternative representation;  auxiliary and accessible related issues.
• Tools to decontaminate preconceived solutions.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
--Albert Einstein

 Source references

The Thinker's Toolkit by Morgan D. Jones and How to Solve It,  A New Aspect of Mathematical Method, by Polya, G.,

Here are a half dozen questions suggested by Polya:

1. What is the unknown? What is the data? What conditions does the solution need to satisfy?
2. Do you know a related problem? Look at the unknown and try to think of a familiar problem having the same or a similar unknown.
3. Can you restate the problem? Can you solve a part of the problem.
4. Can you think of other data appropriate to determine the unknown?
5. Can you check the result?
6. Can you look back and use the result or the method for some other problem?  

2. "Right Brain" and Intuition Enhancement

  
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. 
--Lewis Carroll

So called "Right Brain", Clairvoyance

This practical and results oriented workshop is the flip-side and complement of Informed Decisions and Explicit Thinking.

Participants should expect to realize immediate and practical benefits from the workshop. The workshop should be fun and eye opening.   "Aha!" insights,  fun, engaging and unexpected, immediate and practical applications. Guaranteed.

This workshop uses traditional and accelerated learning and un-learning techniques derived from NLP, Eriksonian trance, EMDR and other pattern disruption practices.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
--Michelangelo

Sample Applications

The practical applications for "right brain" intuition enhancement include:

• Information Synthesis:  handle information overload.
• Stress Reduction—use more of your brain (and other resources) and use the part of your mind that handles bodily stress.
• Decision making.
• Creativity and  Creative Problem Solving.
• Enhancing fluency with language of your intuitive self--emotions, feelings, metaphors.
• Enhance people reading skills.    Increase comprehension of others' implicit and subtle communicaitons.
• Precognition, including clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience (feeling and empathy).

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? 
--Margot Fonteyn