Watch this short video to learn some of Cleese's ideas about encouraging creativity. Then find what he calls an oasis, and be creative in thinking about how each of these can be incorporated into a mediation, or other conflict resolution process. (Do this exercise only if you think creativity aids dispute resolution, of course.)
Cleese's tips (all consistent with what we know about the brain):
- Sleep on the problem
- Let the unconscious help your creativity
- Maintain uninterrupted time for creating, avoiding interruptions
- Get into the right mood, not racing around
- Create an oasis in your life, a tortoise enclosure, with boundaries of space and time
- Give yourself a start and finish time
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