Thus virtual brainstorming retains the original postulate of traditional brainstorming – that teams can crowdsource creativity by curating the ideas they collectively produce in an informal, free-flowing, stream-of-consciousness, session – but overcoming the main, originally unforeseen, barriers.
And "Vanities" grows somber in the climactic scene, which finds them all assembled (somewhat bizarrely) on a Manhattan terrace several years after graduation, for a reunion that turns predictably into both a consciousness raising session and a catfight.
We've arranged his impressions in bullet point format for easier reference because this was a stream of consciousness playing session, not some rigid, square, corporate, focus group BULLSHIT.
It was like a giant consciousness-raising session.
Diana Oh's new piece is essentially a consciousness-raising session in the guise of a play with music, or maybe it's a narrative concert.
The atmosphere tonight is a little like a consciousness-raising session -- there's an earnest aura of learning together and sustaining one another in a benighted world.
"There needs to be a public discussion, a debate, a consciousness-raising session to acknowledge that Indonesians are capable of committing such atrocities," Mr. Goenawan said.
During a college-sponsored Veterans Day "consciousness-raising" session in 1981, faculty and administrators, Grandparents for Reducing the Arms Race and children dressed up as radioactive mutants stage a mock nuclear blast on Dartmouth Green.
It's also an old-school consciousness-raising session, intended to exhort the audience to reckon with (and to act against) the precarious, problematic state of race relations today.
Sandwiches had been laid out in the dining room; in the handsomely appointed living room, chairs had been arranged in a circle, as if for a high-end consciousness-raising session.
