# Brainstorming steps

An effective brainstorm session starts with good preparation:

1. Define a clear question to tackle in the session
2. Select a facilitator and variety of people for your team (often teams are a given in the school context)
3. Create an activity plan for the session
4. Get all the necessary materials.

During the session itself, you will go through the following steps:

1. Welcome
2. Briefing
3. Diverging
   1. Individual idea generation
   2. Group idea generation and combination
4. Converging
   1. Idea grouping
   2. Idea selection
5. Create an action plan

Pro-tip: After converging once, it is often fruitful to go quickly through a final diverging-converging cycle again.