Resilient TeamRelational Game
Creative Collaboration/Yes-And
defending ideas→building solutions
The Goal
Generate better ideas quickly without debate fatigue.
Ideal For
Cross-functional teams and innovation kickoffs.
The Shift
From defending ideas to building solutions.
The Neuroscience
Cooperative interaction is associated in interpersonal-neuroscience studies with greater synchrony between participants' brains than competition. "Yes, and" structures reduce the social threat of judgment — and lowering evaluation anxiety is one of the best-documented ways to increase idea fluency in groups.
From the research
The thinking behind this lab, published in full: