Unlock your tribe’s creativity and innovation
A practical grounding in creative thinking with actionable results
A practical grounding in creative thinking with actionable results
Mission: Horizons is an intensive 12-week creative thinking training programme that challenges your teams to devise creative solutions to real-world problems and pitch them to a to a ‘Dragons Den’ style awards panel. It takes teams through a full innovation cycle, from understanding problems and users better, to creative idea generation techniques, conceptual design and prototyping.
Price per person for full programme and materials
We tailor the programme to your needs. Book a free consultation today:
Learn together as a team to push the limits of your shared creativity and build a culture of open innovation.
Gain essential creative thinking skills and techniques through a deep dive into the innovation process.
Receive a creative thinking toolkit packed full with tips, guides, activities and practical materials.
Pitch the best concepts to an innovations awards panel for further funding and development.
Mission: Horizons provides a practical grounding in all the essential skills for highly creative innovation. It gives an overview of the leading creative methods and the key skills required throughout the process: research & empathy, problem framing, ideation techniques, concepts and prototype development, and evaluation methods. The mission also covers effective pitching and presentations of ideas.
Standard: 12 weeks
Extended: 6 months
6 X half-day workshops
30 X Creative thinking tools
1 X Awards pitch
Creative confidence
Tools & techniques
Actionable concepts
Kick off the creative journey by investigating what creativity is and how it works. Discover what is creative in you and explore the creative methodologies and models of leading design thinkers and innovators.
Unlock curiosity and learn how to tap into other people’s perspectives and emotions. Understand what drives them and how to gather inspiration for a better world through observation, questioning and immersion.
Discover the art of the “Aha” moment and learn how to frame challenges in ways that unlock fruitful possibilities. Play with different ways of synthesising problems and telling the compelling tale of why better is needed.
Stimulate more inventive thinking through creative prompts, improvisation and divergent thinking techniques. Stretch your imagination with lateral, metaphorical, visual and associative thinking approaches.
Learn how to deconstruct issues for creative transformation and re-assembly. Understand how to find possible solutions in unconnected fields and how look to nature for inspiration.
Bring creative ideas to life by making them tangible, trying them out, and getting real-life feedback. Think with your hands, your feet, your senses and the world around you to prototype innovative and engaging experiences.
Present the most promising concepts to a panel of colleagues and experts to select the winning innovations to be taken to the next stage of development and testing.
A self-confessed creativity buff, Kevin helps teams acquire the skills and confidence to be highly inventive by delving into the creative thinking methods and techniques of today’s leading innovators. He believes that the freedom to be creative is at the heart of innovation, happier people and more successful organisations.
Kevin has over 20 years’ experience as a marketing director and strategist supporting international organisations going through major change, from start-ups to mergers and break-ups. He has worked across diverse sectors, from financial services and tech to charities.
This programme is unique. It takes your team on a learning journey of playful collaboration to develop inventive solutions to real-world challenges they face.
Over the course of the programme, you’ll learn practical skills and techniques to help you understand issues better and find more creative answers easily. Learning as a team, you’ll build a collaborative culture that foster creativity and innovation. You’ll practice methodologies and mindsets that can be applied to any situation to help solve complex problems. Finally, you’ll develop proposals and concepts to innovate in your organisation.
Build a culture of creativity and innovation
Learn creative thinking skills and techniques
Develop creative methodologies to use again and again
Practice collaborative problem solving
Delight your audiences and customers more
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