January 2010 Blog Posts (5)

Upcoming training sessions and conferences

Hello everyone;

I apologize if this question seems a bit obvious for I am new to this website.

Is there a location within this website or anywhere else where I can find upcoming training sessions and conferences? I want to attend a Lateral Thinking trainer course so that I may become a certified trainer but I cannot find the information anywhere. I am also interested in any upcoming "thinking-type" conferences that I could attend. Although I am currently in the Middle East… Continue

Added by Ken Sexe on January 17, 2010 at 20:53 — 2 Comments

Raising The Maldives.

"We do not want to leave the Maldives, but we also do not want to be climate refugees living in tents for decades".

President Mohamed Nasheed.

Raising the Maldives is probably a ridiculous idea, but surely worth some thought. Nothing ventured...

We can build islands, like Palm Island and the new Shanghai Container Port.

There are over 1190 coral islands and to raise them all might be a tad ambitious but surely some could be raised.

We could look at top slicing,… Continue

Added by Sinclair McLay on January 9, 2010 at 18:35 — 3 Comments

greetings / competition

Hello Franis and Kim, thanks for your welcome messages. SOrry to have missed the competition which obviously ended on December 31, 2009. And apologies for my late response: work and kids keep me busy. Also I am doing a lot of 'lateral thinking' about a couple of new businesses I am launching at the moment; these are a bit different from what I did during my last 15 years of self-employment. BOY is this world fascinatingly intersting!

Incidentally, if anyone wonders: I'm the one on the left… Continue

Added by George Deden on January 6, 2010 at 3:07 — No Comments

Parallel Response

There is another big hole that is most often missing from most people’s “bag of tricks” concerning the training of new skills. It is the zero state of ‘being at ease’. This would be a resting state in between activating one trigger for a habitually conditioned routine that would be inserted between endless calls for action.

Being able to "think of nothing" is actually a skill. Problems come when our natural capacity for having a ‘resting state’ becomes polluted with too many… Continue

Added by Franis on January 5, 2010 at 12:00 — 2 Comments

New De Bono Society Member

Hello, I am a self-employed, German national who has lived in Hong Kong for 25 years. I am 51 years old, married with 2 children. Jointly with my wife I also run a charity for poor people in Sri Lanka (the home country of my wife). Although I am still learning the various De Bono thinking techniques 'properly' (BLUSH!), I THINK I have already applied some rather successfully in the past, especially in my business dealings. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE to learn about the De Bono way of thinking skills and… Continue

Added by George Deden on January 1, 2010 at 2:56 — 1 Comment