Flow

With flow the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi names the feeling of complete and energized focus in an activity, with a high level of enjoyment and fulfillment.

Components of a flow producing activity are:
 * We are up to to the activity.
 * We are able to concentrate us on our doing.
 * The activity has clear goals.
 * The activity has direct feedback.
 * We have the feeling of control of our activity.
 * Our concerns around us disappear.
 * Our feeling for time is changed.

Not all components must be together present.

On the basis of this feeling Csikszentmihalyi developed a work method for large's group intervention. The substantial characteristics of this work method:
 * Creative spatial arrangement: Chairs, pin walls, charts, however no tables, therefore primarily work in standing and going
 * Playground Design : Charts for information inputs, flow graphs, project summary, craziness ( here also craziness has a place), safe place ( here all may say, what is otherwise only thought), result wall, open topics
 * parallel, organized working
 * Target group focus
 * Advancement of existing one ( prototyping )
 * Efficiency increase by visualization
 * Difference of the participants is a chance

See also: Creativity