The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker
Dorte Nielsen & Sarah Thurber
- EN
- DA
- DE
- FR
- ES
- JA
You can train your brain. Just like you train your muscles.
Creative Thinker makes books, games, courses and tools that help children and adults see the connections others miss. Behind it all is the Center for Creative Thinking in Copenhagen, founded by creativity expert Dorte Nielsen.
10 books
3 games and thinking tools
11 languages
65 countries
Books and games
Highly creative people are good at seeing connections. The books and games train exactly that skill, with exercises for every age from four and up.
Creative Thinker's Exercise Book
Dorte Nielsen & Katrine Granholm
- EN
- DA
Creative Thinker's Rethink Book
Dorte Nielsen & Katrine Granholm
- EN
Little Creative Thinker's Exercise Book
Dorte Nielsen & Katrine Granholm
- EN
- DA
- NL
The Divergent and Convergent Thinking Book
Dorte Nielsen
- EN
Odd Socks Memory Game
Dorte Nielsen & Katrine Granholm
- EN
Creative Thinker's Crazy Connections Memory Game
Dorte Nielsen & Katrine Granholm
- EN
Creative Thinker's Connection Memory Game
Dorte Nielsen & Katrine Granholm
- EN
Little Creative Thinker's Connection Dominoes
Dorte Nielsen & Katrine Granholm
- EN
Brand Vision Cards
Dorte Nielsen & Ingvar Jónsson
- EN
Idébogen
Dorte Nielsen
- DA
- SV
Grundbog for Art Directors
Dorte Nielsen & Tine Kej & Katrine Granholm
- DA
Inspired
Dorte Nielsen & Kiki Hartmann
- EN
The books are available from the publishers and from bookshops worldwide. Schools and companies buying in quantity are welcome to get in touch directly.
The Center for Creative Thinking
Creative thinking is like any other skill in life. The more you practise, the better you become.
The Center was founded in Copenhagen in 2017. We turn creativity research and new brain science into methods, courses, books and tools that companies, schools and leaders can use tomorrow. Not only for creative people. For everyone.
Advisory board
Gerard PuccioProfessor, International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State
Sarah ThurberManaging partner, FourSight, and co-author of The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker
Tim HursonAuthor of Think Better and creator of Productive Thinking
Katrine GranholmDigital artist, lecturer and co-author of several Creative Thinker books
Courses and workshops
Every session is shaped around your goals and your people. In Danish or English, at your place or ours.
The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker
Based on the book, Dorte Nielsen shows how you can boost your innate creativity by seeing connections. Stories, brain science and plenty of exercises that bust the myth that creativity is for the chosen few.
Ask about datesWhat kind of thinker are you?
We are all creative, just not in the same way. Participants get their own FourSight profile, showing where they have the most energy in a creative process, and the team learns to turn its differences into strength.
Find out moreCreativity in schools
Dorte Nielsen introduced creative thinking as a school subject in Denmark in 2016. In this seminar she shares what she learned, and teachers leave with principles, exercises and activities they can take straight into the classroom.
Book a seminarTailored workshops
Training and facilitation in Creative Problem Solving for companies, organisations and leadership teams who want to create new ideas and put them to work.
Tell us what you needOur Sustainable Future
Children and young people around the world make films and posters with ideas for a more sustainable future. The project is celebrated every year on the United Nations' World Creativity and Innovation Day, 21 April, and starts from the Sustainable Development Goals.
The project started in 2021 and is today the international award of Creative Circle, the Danish society for the creative industries.
Founded by Dorte Nielsen
Dorte Nielsen, M.Sc. in Creativity, is a creativity expert, author and keynote speaker. She was an art director in London in the 1990s, founded the Creative Communication degree at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, and holds a Master of Science in Creativity from the International Center for Studies in Creativity in Buffalo, New York. Today she is Denmark's ambassador for the United Nations' World Creativity and Innovation Day.
Book Dorte as a speakerLet's talk
About courses, talks, books for the whole school or something else entirely. Write to Dorte directly.
dorte@dortenielsen.com