Coaching practices for Scamper Technique

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I have a hunch somebody, somewhere, has already cracked a problem shaped just like mine
  • This has slowly piled up with so many steps and features that it feels heavy, and I’m sure some of them are just there out of habit
  • I keep treating one piece of this as a given
  • I’ll grind on the same not-quite-working approach for months before adjusting anything, then change five things at once
  • When I try to scan my body I race through it in a couple of minutes, skimming past whole parts and skipping the spots that feel uncomfortable

Practices that may help

  1. SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
    SCAMPER is a structured brainstorming checklist that prompts you to Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify/Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Reverse/Rearrange elements of an existing product, process, or problem. It is a practitioner-derived tool with no randomized trial evidence but a strong theoretical grounding in divergent thinking research — it works by forcing systematic exploration of an idea space that unguided brainstorming leaves partially uncovered.
  2. Adapt
    Ask: what could be adapted or borrowed from another context, industry, or era to solve this problem?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  3. Eliminate
    Ask: what could be removed, simplified, or reduced without losing what makes this valuable?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  4. Substitute
    Ask: what component, material, person, process, or rule could be swapped for something different?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  5. Run experiments in rapid iteration sprints
    Cycle through short tests quickly to compress your learning rate.
    Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
  6. The slow, systematic sweep
    Move through the body in a fixed, unhurried sequence — not skipping regions, not rushing past unpleasant ones.
    Body Scan Meditation, Made Practical
  7. Modify and Magnify
    Ask: what happens if you make an element bigger, smaller, faster, slower, stronger, or weaker?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  8. Reverse and Rearrange
    Ask: what if the sequence were inverted, the roles were swapped, or the normal order were reversed?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
  9. Spacing over massing
    Study across multiple sessions separated by time, not in one concentrated block.
    The Fluency Illusion: Why Easy Reading Fools You Into Thinking You’ve Learned
  10. Run WOOP as a quick repeatable routine
    Use the full four-step sequence regularly — it is a few minutes, designed to be reused.
    WOOP: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan

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