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If you want to learn more about ProxThink generally, here are several routes ...

Quick Intro - Slide Show
A short slide show on the home page provides a quick introduction.

Why proximity?
In our connected world, a proximity focus enables flexible thinking. The proximity of a situation can include connected or related elements such as people, places, things, ideas, feelings, relationships, groups, etc.

What is ProxThink?
ProxThink is a proximity-focused framework for creativity, innovation, problem-solving and sustainability. Proximity thinking is thinking with a proximity-focused framework, which consists of some basic ideas, patterns, models and tools, that can boost creativity, innovation, problem-solving and sustainability in proximities which may be personal, interpersonal, local, regional, global, or unique to your specific situation. The basic ideas are a thinking structure. The patterns and tools can boost relationships, creativity, innovation and problem-solving. The growth model and sustainable proximities approach provide new ways to coordinate, cooperate, collaborate, implement and relate to proximities.

Why? Who? How? For answers, see these links: Why use ProxThink?, Who can benefit? and How does it help?

ProxPatterns and Hints Tools
ProxThink is short for proximity thinking. ProxThink is built upon the idea that being is about relating, combined with a focus on the proximity. You will likely use the ProxPatterns and the ProxThink Hints Tools the most.

Creativity and Innovation - Slide Show
For an introduction to the creativity and innovation aspects of the ProxThink framework, see this slide show.

ProxThink Innovations
There are three main ProxThink innovations:
1) The ProxThink Basics are a new structure for thinking and relating.
2) The ProxPatterns and ProxThink Hints are new patterns and tools for generating ideas, enhancing creativity and relating to situations. Here are examples of the use of ProxPatterns in Conversation, Negotiation, and Writing. For a tool preview, try ProxThink Hints.
3) The ProxThink growth model can help you implement ideas and create diverse kinds of sustainable growth.

Ways to Use ProxThink shows three lists, ranging from more general to more specific.

Video
Here is a three part video introduction to ProxThink! Each is about 10 minutes. Watch all three and start getting more out of ProxThink Hints, one of the most powerful features of the site. Even without the Hints tools, you'll have some new approaches for many situations after watching these videos.

Two Press Releases
A long one and a short one.

Sustainability discusses how ProxThink and sustainability go together, what sustainability means, why we need it and how we probably need a variety of kinds of sustainability.