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title: "Brainstorming"
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---
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Facilitate structured creative sessions using 60+ proven ideation techniques.
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The Brainstorming workflow is an interactive facilitation system that helps you unlock your own creativity. The AI acts as coach, guide, and creative partner — using proven techniques to draw out ideas and insights that are already within you.
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:::note[Important]
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Every idea comes from you. The workflow creates the conditions for your best thinking to emerge through guided exploration, but you are the source.
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## When to Use It
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- Breaking through creative blocks on a specific challenge
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- Generating innovative ideas for products, features, or solutions
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- Exploring a problem from completely new angles
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- Systematically developing ideas from raw concepts to actionable plans
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- Team ideation (with collaborative techniques) or personal creative exploration
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## How It Works
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### 1. Session Setup
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Define your topic, goals, and any constraints.
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### 2. Choose Your Approach
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| Approach | Description |
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| **User-Selected** | Browse the full technique library and pick what appeals to you |
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| **AI-Recommended** | Get customized technique suggestions based on your goals |
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| **Random Selection** | Discover unexpected methods through serendipitous technique combinations |
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| **Progressive Flow** | Journey systematically from expansive exploration to focused action planning |
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### 3. Interactive Facilitation
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Work through techniques with true collaborative coaching. The AI asks probing questions, builds on your ideas, and helps you think deeper—but your ideas are the source.
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### 4. Idea Organization
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All your generated ideas are organized into themes and prioritized.
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### 5. Action Planning
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Top ideas get concrete next steps, resource requirements, and success metrics.
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## What You Get
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A comprehensive session document that captures the entire journey:
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- Topic, goals, and session parameters
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- Each technique used and how it was applied
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- Your contributions and the ideas you generated
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- Thematic organization connecting related insights
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- Prioritized ideas with action plans
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- Session highlights and key breakthroughs
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This document becomes a permanent record of your creative process — valuable for future reference, sharing with stakeholders, or continuing the session later.
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## Technique Categories
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| Category | Focus |
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| **Collaborative** | Team dynamics and inclusive participation |
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| **Creative** | Breakthrough thinking and paradigm shifts |
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| **Deep** | Root cause analysis and strategic insight |
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| **Structured** | Organized frameworks and systematic exploration |
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| **Theatrical** | Playful, radical perspectives |
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| **Wild** | Boundary-pushing, extreme thinking |
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| **Biomimetic** | Nature-inspired solutions |
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| **Quantum** | Quantum principles for innovation |
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| **Cultural** | Traditional knowledge and cross-cultural approaches |
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| **Introspective Delight** | Inner wisdom and authentic exploration |
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## Key Features
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- **Interactive coaching** — Pulls ideas *out* of you, doesn't generate them for you
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- **On-demand loading** — Techniques loaded from a comprehensive library as needed
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- **Session preservation** — Every step, insight, and action plan is documented
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- **Continuation support** — Pause sessions and return later, or extend with additional techniques
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## Workflow Integration
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Brainstorming is a core workflow designed to be invoked and configured by other modules. When called from another workflow, it accepts contextual parameters:
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| Parameter | Description |
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| **Topic focus** | What the brainstorming should help discover or solve |
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| **Guardrails** | Constraints, boundaries, or must-avoid areas |
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| **Output goals** | What the final output needs to accomplish for the calling workflow |
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| **Context files** | Project-specific guidance to inform technique selection |
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### Example
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When creating a new module in the BMad Builder workflow, Brainstorming can be invoked with guardrails around the module's purpose and a goal to discover key features, user needs, or architectural considerations. The session becomes focused on producing exactly what the module creation workflow needs.
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