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The Disney Strategy For Creativity: Practical NLP Podcast 51

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Show Notes

This week's episode features a format you can use to get lots of viable creative ideas from even the most unpromising groups, or that you can use to generate ideas yourself even if you don't regard yourself as 'creative' - it's the 'Disney Strategy for Creativity', modelled and developed by Robert Dilts.

Includes:00.40: How I helped people from the world's least creative professions to generate great ideas!02.18: The three stages of the Disney Strategy02:40: Detailed guide to each stage03:20: A tip from NLP to get yourself into a more creative state05:19: Some different ways of working with the format

Plus:

09:09 I talk about the episode of Robyn Stratton-Berkessel's 'Positivity Strategist' podcast where she interviews me about the links between NLP and Appreciative Inquiry - listen to the interview here

The format for the Disney Strategy is described here - the blog post is pretty much a transcript for most of the episode.

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