Francisco, J.M. and Burnett, C.A. (2008). “Deliberate Intuition: Giving intuitive insights their rightful place in the Creative Problem Solving Thinking Skills Model.”
This was the first paper, presented at the 2008 Creativity and Innovation Management Conference that Janice and Cyndi wrote to articulate their initial research on how intuition factors into creative problem solving.
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Francisco, J. (2007). ”How to create and facilitate meetings that matter.” IM Journal
This article was written to help information management professionals plan and run a successful meeting using crucial checklists.
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Marquart, K. (2008). “The Labyrinth: An ancient and emerging tool for idea development.” http://www.BrainReactions.com
View the article that resulted from the author’s interview with Janice Francisco about how Janice uses labyrinths as a creativity tool.
“As creative problem-solving tools labyrinths may be used in a variety of ways. Many people find the experience of walking or tracing a labyrinth to be quite relaxing, allowing them to feel centered. This inner-calm encourages a flow of ideas emerging from subconscious levels of thought. The steady winding of the labyrinth’s path also reflects the divergent and convergent nature of thoughts during creative problem solving. Following the labyrinth’s path, draws one tantalizingly close to the center, when suddenly making a turn guides you towards the outer edges of the labyrinth and far away from the center. As this journey unfolds, the path maintains this rhythm until the center is finally reached.”
“Relating labyrinths to creativity is not new”, notes Janice Francisco, a facilitator in the field of Creativity and Change Leadership. Francisco states that labyrinths have often been fixtures at international creativity conferences. However, she became interested in how and why labyrinths were related to creativity when she observed that, “a specific link between labyrinths and creativity was never explained at these conferences.” This observation launched Francisco into a deeper examination of labyrinths related to creativity, resulting in authoring the useful text, “A Creative Walker’s Guide to the Labyrinth”.