How to use the Lotus blossom template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Lotus blossom template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Lotus blossom”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Write the theme in the middle and fill the petals first. Then copy each petal to the centre of a new board and grow it the same way.”
Fill in each part
- Getting there One direction to grow the theme in.
- Markets One direction to grow the theme in.
- Events One direction to grow the theme in.
- Evenings One direction to grow the theme in.
- Make our town centre busy again The theme everything grows from.
- Empty shops One direction to grow the theme in.
- Families One direction to grow the theme in.
- Work One direction to grow the theme in.
- Green spaces One direction to grow the theme in.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Lotus blossom board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

SCAMPER prompts
Seven ways to twist an existing product or process into new ideas: swap, combine, adapt, resize, repurpose, remove, reverse.
Brainwriting rounds
Generate ideas in writing instead of out loud: each person writes ideas, then builds on their neighbour’s, round after round.
Starbursting
Question an idea from six sides: who, what, where, when, why and how, as a mind map.
Assumption busting
List what everyone takes for granted about a problem, flip each assumption, and see which flips open up new ideas.
What-if questions
Ask bold “what if” questions about how things could be different, then sketch what each would mean and the first step to test it.
Idea scorecard
Score a long list of ideas on the same few criteria so the shortlist comes from the group’s judgement, not the loudest voice.