Below is our library of methods we use in our programs, together with links to external resources. Feel free to browse and learn. If you have any questions or suggestions for us, please let us know!
Art of Hosting
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"The Art of Hosting is a highly effective way of harnessing the collective wisdom and self-organizing capacity of groups of any size. Based on the assumption that people give their energy and lend their resources to what matters most to them – in work as in life – the Art of Hosting blends a suite of powerful conversational processes to invite people to step in and take charge of the challenges facing them.
Groups and organizations using the Art of Hosting as a working practice report better decision-making, more efficient and effective capacity building and greater ability to quickly respond to opportunity, challenge and change. People who experience the Art of Hosting typically say that they walk away feeling more empowered and able to help guide the meetings and conversations they are part of move towards more effective and desirable outcomes." (artofhosting.org, 2016) |
The Art of Hosting website offers a number of tools and resources, explaining different methods and their application. Among them is Circle, World Cafe, Proaction Cafe or Open Space. We use some of these methods in our program to learn to work with each other and together and to support our processes.
Theater of the Oppressed
The Theatre of the Oppressed describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1960s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire. Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as "spect-actors" they explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they are living.
Boal's book Games for actors and non-actors is available in the PDF format here. For a quick inspiration, you may use Susie's MacDonald and Daniel Rachel notes from workshop "Augusto Boal's Forum theatre for teachers" available here. |
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Dragon Dreaming
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"Dragon Dreaming offers methods for the realisation of creative, collaborative and sustainable projects and organisations, built upon three principles:
Dragon Dreaming offers simple and playful methods for visionary processes, planning, implementation and evaluation." (dragondreaming.org, 2016) The Dragon Dreaming website is a good resource of information to learn more about this methodology. |
The “collective Dreaming” had been sufficiently powerful, and had been shared sufficiently widely, to have created its own momentum for implementation. A collective group culture had been established, into which people acted with intention to make the dream come true, even though they were unaware that they were doing so. The power of one’s intentions, by themselves, is a force that can be used for the good of the world. More information: Fact Sheet 12.
Theory U
Why do our attempts to deal with the challenges of our time so often fail? Why are we stuck in so many quagmires today?
The cause of our collective failure is that we are blind to the deeper dimension of leadership and transformational change. This "blind spot" exists not only in our collective leadership but also in our everyday social interactions. We are blind to the source dimension from which effective leadership and social action come into being. We know a great deal about what leaders do and how they do it. But we know very little about the inner place, the source from which they operate. It is this source that "Theory U" attempts to explore. www.presencing.com/theoryu, 2016) |
Clean Language
Clean Language is a simple set of questions developed by counselling psychologist David Grove. These questions are used with a person's own words to direct their attention to some aspect of their own experience.
Asking these questions in the right context often results in an interesting new insight or the recognition of some new possibility. And if that new possibility is then questioned using Clean Language, the result can be quite profound. Clean questions invite people to consider their experience from different perspectives and they are often surprised by their own capacity to generate new, powerful and useful ideas about their own experience. (Cleanlearning.co.uk, 2016) A nice guide can be found here. |
Game Design Thinking
Game Design Thinking Research Group is built in the intersection of game design (as a science), behavior design, and design thinking. Game Design Thinking is not about programming apps or adding gamification badges. Game Design Thinking draws on game mechanics, narrative design, psychology and economics. (SGDTRG, 2016)
More information may be found at the Stanford Game Design Thinking Research Group websites. |
Human Design
The Human Design System is the Science of Differentiation. It shows each of us that we have a unique design and a specific purpose to fulfill while on Earth.
Endless possibilities for individual uniqueness lie within our genetic matrix. There are millions of variations of human beings, yet each of us has a specific and unique Human Design configuration with a clear Strategy that effortlessly aligns us to our uniqueness. Human Design does not ask you to believe anything. It invites you to participate in a potentially life-transforming living experiment, and provides you with the practical tools and information needed to live life as yourself. Without this individualized – and individualizing – living experiment, Human Design is just a complex system of fascinating information to entertain the mind. (ihdschool.com) For more details click here. |