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I recently participated in two workshops (one with my students in the MA in Creative Leadership program and one with some colleagues at MCAD). I think the one thing that has most changed in my mindset around innovation is that I have dropped the idea/practice of sitting by myself or others and ideating as a way to begin. I now see that radical innovation require collective embodied making (and re-making).
The process of pattern recognition, blocking and probing is powerful. Once I used it in the workshop I began to see so many ways this could be applied.
Highly recommend taking a workshop with Jason & Iain. Plus they have a humorous, friendly rapport, which makes the experience feel relaxed and enjoyable.
I've read a lot of Iain and Jason's writings about their Innovation Framework (so much of their book is so good, bits of radical insight every time I open it:), but nothing beats experiencing it in a workshop, which is something I'd wanted to do for a while and finally got to do last month.
As others have mentioned, in surprisingly little time, I had the profound experience of inventing something I could have never imagined.
I have never been able to imagine how one might do anything other than the "I think therefore I am" approach, so this was the most surprising and valuable takeaway for me.
As a math learner and educator for many years, I've always valued the experience over the output, and now I have new ways of talking about it and making it happen.
