1. What is a creative distancing technique?

You've mastered the brainstorming technique [FIC 0233] and know how to facilitate it. But you want to go further in terms of innovative ideas, because you have the impression of "going round in circles", of coming up with the same ideas over and over again.

It's quite possible that you lack perspective. Lack of perspective is one of the main obstacles to creativity: you become trapped in a bundle of constraints, like a monkey in a cage without a bottom, desperately trying to reach through the bars for the banana you're holding out to him, without thinking of getting out...