Brainstorming session versus blamestorming session

Today’s English
March 7th, 2017

Whenever we have a problem, failure or negative reviews of the company, we have a blamestorming session or brainstorming session.

Blamestorming session is one in which a group of people try to find out who is responsible for the issue or which sources or methods led to failure.

Brainstorming session is one in which a group of people try to solve a problem or gather new ideas.  The former is just to blame and assign responsibility whereas the latter is to arrive at a solution.

1. We had a brainstorming session on women’s empowerment.
2. The company had a blamestorming session to analyse the reasons for the failure of the recent project.

We generally use the verb “brainstorm" to mean “think and give new ideas"
1. How can a woman protect herself in times of danger?   Brainstorm as quickly as possible.
2. We have all assembled here to brainstorm the project. (=To think and come out with new ideas on the project. )

The noun brainstorm simply means “a sudden clever new idea"  or “a state in which you are not able to think clearly.”
1. When I was watching the playing children, suddenly I had the brainstorm of a new game. (New clever idea)
2. Oh my god! I forgot to bring my purse. I must have had a brainstorm. (Not having clear thinking few minutes before)

(Do you know that the term “brainstorm” is actually a medical term used in 1890a to refer to “mental explosion"?)