1. Chapter 9 Specialty Groups and Creativity in Groups
Prepared by: Nathaniel N. Ivers, Wake Forest University

2. Roadmap What specialty groups are Different types of specialty groups
What creativity is in a group setting
Six Hat’s Approach
SCAMPER Model
Zig Zag Idea
Creative Exercises in Different Group Stages

3. Specialty Groups
Groups that focus on one particular population or problem, such as:
Military veterans
New mothers
Addiction
Require a great deal of knowledge and expertise from their leaders

4. Examples of Specialty Groups
Groups for Health Care Providers and Health Care Consumers
Groups for Military Personnel and Their Families
New Mothers’ Groups
Involuntary and Mandated Groups
Anger and Aggression Management Groups
Cancer Support Groups
Telephone Groups

5. Examples of Specialty Groups
Online Groups
Trauma Stress Groups
Disabled Persons Groups
Adventure Groups
Prevention Groups
Groups for Depression
Achievement Groups

6. Creativity in Groups Creativity:
The ability to produce new and useful thoughts, behaviors, and feelings in a socially appropriate context (Csikszentmihalyi, 2013)
In group work, there is no recipe or formula.
Groups that work well depend on collaboration and the innovation that spawns from it.

7. Six Hats Approach to Creativity
Problems, difficulties, challenges, etc. ought to be broken down into six hats (six ways of thinking)
Each hat is color coded and is employed before a decision is made as to what to do.
In ordinary, unstructured thinking, the process is unfocused.
The six hats thinking process attempts to introduce parallel thinking, as opposed to spaghetti thinking (DeBono, 1999).

8. Six Hats White hat: Information Red hat: Emotions
Black hat: Negative points of an idea highlighted
Yellow hat: Good points of an idea highlighted
Green hat: Potential growth of a particular idea
Blue hat: Thinking about thinking – Organizing hat.

9. SCAMPER Model of Creativity
S – What can be substituted for what has been
C – What can be combined, such as ideas
A – What can be adapted or adopted
M – What can be modified
P – What can be “put to other uses”
E – What can be eliminated
R – What can be reversed or rearranged
(Eberle, 1971)

10. Zig Zag Model of Creativity
Sawyer, the author of the zig zag model, believes the creativity process is a nonlinear set of behaviors that can be learned
Sawyer developed an eight-step process

11. Creative Exercises for Different Stages
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning

12. Creative Exercises: Forming
Music Openings
Poems as a Group Catalyst
Train Station
Passive-Active

13. Creative Exercises: Storming
Circles
Home Spot
Hamlet’s Dilemma

14. Creative Exercises: Norming
Group Mural
Clay Pieces

15. Creative Exercises: Performing
Locomotion
Adverbs
Areas
Common Objects
Acting “As If”
Skits
Role-Plays

16. Creative Exercises: Adjourning
Music Good-bye
Saying “Good-bye”
Balloons
Rainbow
Closing Poems