Individual Facilitated Problem Solving Session

Standard analytical approaches do not always lead to desired outcome. We can try to unlock creativity together and turn challenge into solution or possibility. It is an encounter between two equal ways of exploring the same underlying reality. On one side is lived experience, articulated through poetic language. It is naturally accessible and appropriate for certain layers of experience. On the other side is scientific thinking, working with concepts, data, and formalized frameworks. What emerges is an encounter. It constitutes the possibility of synergy or something unexpected. This can be productive, because it creates the conditions for a shift in understanding.

Unlock creativity. Turn problems into solutions.

These individual problem-solving sessions are designed for:

• Researchers and scientists
• Members of research teams
• Academic professionals and PhD students
• Managers responsible for important strategic or organizational decisions

Focus Areas may include:

• Exploring alternative perspectives (phenomenology, systems thinking, reframing)
• Complex questions at the intersection of science, philosophy, and human experience
• Decision-making under ambiguity
• New conceptual models - metaphors, and approaches to problem definition

(These topics can be adapted to fit the organizational or academic environment.)

Time is something we are all part of.

Questions I would like to bring to the table. With your support, think through them honestly and carefully:

• What happened just before the Big Bang?
• What happened just after the Big Bang?
• How do distinct dimensions arise, and how are light and the boundaries of the universe related to this?
• Time is something that is part of me and you. What kind of experiential understanding of this is actually possible for a human being?
• How is this related to lucid dreaming and other consciously lived boundary states?
• Why is it so difficult to explain these experiences to someone else?
• How does this relate to intelligence and to the modes of perception a person has available?
• What is the relationship between sound, silence, and time? The paradox of intensely experienced silence.
• What happens when, our perception collapses in a boundary situation? We do not cease to be. What happend to our mind?
• What is the relationship between symmetry and emotions? Do emotions have a geometric component within them?
• How could one theoretically describe the mechanism by which consciousness moves from one state to another?
• How does the Big Bang work? Is there a mechanism involved? Is it possible to infer the process by which it occurs?
• Why are the smallest particles we are made of too in absolute stillness and yet simultaneously in motion ? Why they are here and at the same time everywhere? Why does our understanding of space change radicaly after that? What is their energy?
• Where exactly does the universe we live in and think begin?
• How do dimensions delimit (or bound) this universe?
• What is the difference between how Bergson understood time and how Einstein understood time?
• Why were they unable to understand each other? What was the barrier that prevented their mutual understanding?

Facilitator & Enviroment

The facilitator acts as an equal participant in the process. Encouraging dialogue and contributing to space for creative solutions. A key capability is the ability to listen deeply and to participate in meaningful problem definition. The session may include a short creative contribution from the author’s existential poetic work.

Process

1. Problem Exploration – placing the issue into a broader context
2. Problem Definition – identifying the core of the problem
3. Redifinition - is there new perspektive? New definition?
4. Idea Generation – creating a wide spectrum of possible solutions
5. Planning – selecting the most promising concept
6. Feedback – sharing insights, reflection

Duration

Individual (may include a full working day)