For creative ideas to emerge, trust and openness must prevail. Facilitators fail to gain trust when they refrain from acknowledging the differences among the people with whom they are working. To build rapport and trust, type knowledgeable facilitators honor each of the eight functions. Doing so gives each person an opportunity to come from a function area of strength and also promotes stretching into less familiar function realms. Their leading and promoting activities that tap inner resources runs contrary to the traditional ideational group session.
Traditional idea generating belongs to the realm of the extraverting functions.
Most sessions are held with people sitting around a flip chart expressing responses to idea and concept stimulus. Extraverted Thinking gives ideas for moving forward. Extraverted Feeling contributes ideas for building and maintaining relationships. Extraverted Sensing provides ideas that build on current conditions. Extraverted Intuiting proliferates ideas about connections and potentials.