Six thinking hats!

In our creativity and concept class this week, we learnt about the six thinking hats. The six thinking hats is a thinking tool used a lot for group discussion but also for individual thinking. This technique was created by Edward de Bono, he wrote a book on the six thinking hats to describe how it helps people with thinking in different ways to their normal thinking. Each hat is a different way of thinking and also has a different colour.
Information: (White) - considering purely what information is available, what are the facts?
Emotions (Red) - instinctive gut reaction or statements of emotional feeling (but not any justification)
Bad points judgment (Black) - logic applied to identifying flaws or barriers, seeking mismatch
Good points judgment (Yellow) - logic applied to identifying benefits, seeking harmony
Creativity (Green) - statements of provocation and investigation, seeing where a thought goes
Thinking (Blue) - thinking about thinking

In class, we were each put into groups of 5 and told to come up with different ideas for a John Moore's student party. We then gave our ideas to the teacher who then mixed them up and gave each group a new idea to what they had. Our group had the six different coloured hats which we used to think of ways we could make our idea better, looking at all the flaws and trying to make them better.

I thought this workshop was good, although most of the different thinking techniques I found that I would normally use when trying to make decisions. I still thought that it was good that we separated the thinking into different hats so when we had a different hat we looked at the task with a new thoughts. I think I will look at different tasks and think about if I have used each thinking technique.