Mission Impossible is a game that asks participants to think about how they would address the challenge without any of the usual constraints: What if you only had 24 hrs to develop a solution? How could you develop a solution that is indestructible?

This is a way to actively remove aspects of the challenge that anchor people’s thoughts and leave them unable to see alternative possibilities. It pushes participants to open their minds and to generate the kinds of ideas that they might feel are impossible.

The next step is to ask participants to look at those ideas and think how they might make a possible version of them. They will not be able to do it for all of their ‘impossible ideas’, and maybe not even the majority, but there will usually be a few that provide new possibilities for addressing the problem.