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id: six-thinking-hats
title: Six Thinking Hats
description: >-
A parallel thinking method where a group considers a topic from one
perspective at a time, signalled by six metaphorical "hats." Developed by
Edward de Bono.
source: Edward de Bono, "Six Thinking Hats"
source_url: https://www.edwdebono.com/
tags: [thinking, creativity, meetings, facilitation]
forked_from: null
image: null
steps:
- headline: White Hat — facts
description: >-
The group considers only information and facts: what is known, what is
missing, what data is needed.
- headline: Red Hat — feelings
description: >-
Each person expresses gut feelings and intuition, without needing to
justify them.
- headline: Black Hat — caution
description: >-
The group identifies risks, difficulties, and what could go wrong,
without being dismissed as negative.
- headline: Yellow Hat — benefits
description: >-
The group names the value, benefits, and optimistic possibilities of
the idea.
- headline: Green Hat — creativity
description: >-
The group generates alternatives, provocations, and new ideas without
critique.
- headline: Blue Hat — process
description: >-
The facilitator manages the sequence, summarises, and defines next
steps.
outcome: >-
The group explores a topic thoroughly without arguments tangling
perspectives; each mode gets its full attention.
practice: >-
Keep hat time short and clearly signposted. The hardest discipline is
staying in one hat — if black-hat thinking creeps into yellow-hat time,
name it and return.