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

Use of Active Listening to slow down a discussion, or manage dominant participants

This is a method to unstick any workshop (a vision workshop or other workshop) where the group is stuck on a step of the process, and unclear about whether the result of the workshop is necessary.

Sometimes a number of people are silent and there is not necessarily a dominant person in the group. This often happens in cultures where being assertive is not valued.

In order to work without "living in the past", this imaginative activity aims to face and release grief/loss by memorializing former best practices/values from previous workplaces/environments.

Beginning a session with anonymous sharing of possible problems

Organizational Planning and Relationship Effectiveness

Probing negative situations playfully to discern possible positive implications

There are 4 opportunities to deal with "air hogs":

These are different ways of intervening when a participant makes a cynical remark in a meeting such as, "we do this planning all the time but nothing is ever done."

When someone makes a cynical comment, often it comes from experience. Sometimes it is a way of avoiding responsibility for implementation. When the cynical comment is acknowledged and the person making it is asked what they would do, this becomes an opportunity to ask for their wisdom on how to address the problem.