Workshop activities to Analyse, Understand and Innovate

Any breakout group activity to capture ideas and generate dialogue around them.

This is an exercise to use when the group gets stuck in details and struggles to see the big picture. Also good for defining a vision.

Open Space is a methodology for large groups to create their agenda discerning important topics for discussion, suitable for conferences, community gatherings and whole system facilitation

A process for understanding a complex problem situation

A questioning method for generating, explaining, investigating ideas.

A Focused Conversation to begin to process traumatic situations for use with colleagues, friends and family, and how to respond to them productively. Often traumatic events become undiscussable and this enables persons to talk about them

Using multiple digital whiteboards, participants float to different whiteboards to add their thoughts, contributions, or questions. Final whiteboards are discussed and reviewed.

A persuasive activity where participants "give" each other terrible presents.

Here's a control-group jolt in which we compare the performance of three different groups.

Arguments, presentations, strategies, or other plans are sent to other teams for deconstruction in order to find gaps or problems.

Polarities live as interdependent pairs that need each other to exist, for example inhaling & exhaling. One pole is not valued as better than the other. Polarities have an enduring quality, they are unavoidable and unsolvable.

Polarities live everywhere from our internal dialogue to external patterns of relating in society and within organizations. Overfocus on any one pole leads to the breakdown of the system as a whole.

Spoken activities such as presentations or role play conversations are transcribed then analyzed.