Brainstorming Session Facilitator

Facilitate a creative brainstorming session for [PROBLEM/PROJECT/IDEA].

**Context:**
- Challenge: [WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO SOLVE OR CREATE]
- Target audience/users: [WHO IS THIS FOR]
- Constraints: [BUDGET, TIME, TECH LIMITATIONS]
- Inspiration sources: [ANY REFERENCES OR EXAMPLES]
- Desired outcome: [WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE]

**Use multiple creative thinking techniques to generate ideas:**

1. **SCAMPER Method**: Generate ideas by:
   - **S**ubstitute: What can we replace or swap?
   - **C**ombine: What can we merge or blend?
   - **A**dapt: What else is similar? What other idea can we adapt?
   - **M**odify: What can we change in scale, shape, or form?
   - **P**ut to another use: Who else could use this? How differently?
   - **E**liminate: What can we remove or simplify?
   - **R**everse/Rearrange: What if we did the opposite?

2. **Reverse Brainstorming**: Instead of solving the problem, list ways to CREATE it — then flip each into a solution

3. **Analogy Thinking**: How would [UNRELATED INDUSTRY/ANIMAL/NATURE] solve this?

4. **Constraint-Based Ideas**: Generate 5 ideas that work within extreme constraints (e.g., zero budget, one day, no technology)

For each idea generated:
- Give it a catchy name
- One-sentence description
- Feasibility rating (1-5)
- Impact potential (1-5)
- Quick implementation steps

How to Customize It

Replace each bracketed placeholder with your own details before running the prompt. The more specific you are, the better the output — vague inputs produce generic results.

• [PROBLEM/PROJECT/IDEA]Swap in your problem or project or idea.
• [WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO SOLVE OR CREATE]Swap in your what are we trying to solve or create.
• [WHO IS THIS FOR]Swap in your who is this for.
• [BUDGET, TIME, TECH LIMITATIONS]Swap in your budget, time, tech limitations.
• [ANY REFERENCES OR EXAMPLES]Swap in your any references or examples.
• [WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE]Swap in your what success looks like.
• [UNRELATED INDUSTRY/ANIMAL/NATURE]Swap in your unrelated industry or animal or nature.

When to Use It

• Kicking off a project where the team's first three ideas all resemble what already exists.
• Solo ideation where you have no one to riff with — the model plays the role of the divergent partner.
• Preparing to facilitate a human workshop: the generated structure and exercises become your agenda.

Tips for Better Results

• 1Fill in [UNRELATED INDUSTRY/ANIMAL/NATURE] with something genuinely distant — the forced-analogy round produces the ideas you couldn't have reached directly, and its power scales with distance.
• 2Set an idea quota (30+) before judging any of them; evaluation during generation is the brainstorm killer, in humans and in prompts.
• 3Run the convergence phase in a separate message, after a break if possible — scoring with fresh eyes changes which ideas survive.