De+Bono's+Creative+Thinking+Hat+(Green)

= **"GREEN IS GRASS, VEGETATION AND ABUNDANT** = = **FERTILE GROWTH. THE GREEN HAT INDICATES CREATIVITY AND NEW IDEAS"**  = = 

= The green hat is for creative thinking. The person who puts on the green hat is going to use the expressions of creative thinking. Those around are required to treat the output as a creative output. Ideally both thinker and listener should be wearing green hats. The green colour symbolizes fertility, growth and the value of seeds. The search for alternatives is fundamental aspect of the green hat thinking. There is a need to go beyond the known and the obvious and the satisfactory With the creative pause the green hat thinker pauses at any point to consider whether there might be any alternative idea at that point. There need be no reason for this pause. In green hat thinking the language of movement replaces that of judgement. The thinker seeks to move forward from an idea in order to reach a new idea. Provocation is an important aspect of green hat thinking. A provocation is used to take us out of our usual patterns of thinking. There are many ways of setting up provocations including the random word method//. (These methods include word games, written exercises and different types of improvisation, or algorithms for approaching problems.).//