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A call to action from Ed Schein
The Power of Resonance: Transformation after Trauma
What might we look like from 2050?
An interlude on the OD Practitioner
an OD Practitioner involuntarily tumbling in the raging white waters of Covid-19
“What must normal be, now?”
a DEI Awareness Checklist
Humans are worthy of your connection
Indeed, self-less collaboration may involve some degree of personal cost or risk
Belonging: Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion
The Possibilities and Limits of Empowerment: A Rock Band of Developmentally Disabled Youth
Polarity Thinking can save lives, strengthen the economy, and speed the national recovery
we are each a small part of a large awakening. Maybe, we can help give it voice?
Leverage Adaptive Change
Who will step forward to protect and preserve the human spirit?
8 Things that You can do now to make better decisions collaboratively
We hope this collection can inspire hope
Now is the time for me to walk that path with as many who want to. And, of course, it has to begin with me making the path itself clearer. I am ready to do that.
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” —Victor Frankl, Concentration Camp Survivor.
A JOINT STATEMENT?
Examples of Racial Microaggressions
Two wrongs don’t make a right but telling a half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie
Über die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Empowerments am Beispiel einer Rockband geistig behinderter Jugendlicher
2020 isn’t cancelled, but rather the most important year of them all.
There is so much that needs to be said. There is even more that needs to be heard. But we can’t wait another day. The time is now. Can we talk?
How many more seminars and ZOOM meetings and conferences and panels and marches and events — where we leave out the voices of poor, impoverished PEOPLE and communities?
why you should stop saying “all lives matter,” explained in different ways
Why are Black folks in America mad? Because the unfair treatment never stopped. It just evolved.
INSIDE KNOWLEDGE (2ND EDITIO)

Method Snapshots from the Collaborative Change Library:

A Program Implementation Process
Accelerating Innovation
Systemic Nonviolent Communication as Cultural Transformation
VISAL EXPLORER
Gluing a Place Together, One Neighborhood at a Time
Harvesting Conversations That Matter
a virtual suite of tools: Quality In, Quality Out
Four Strategies as a Path to Robust Cultures
Growing Relational Skills Across Enterprises Through Improv
the search for the best in people, their organizations, and the strengths-filled, opportunity-rich world around them
authentic engagement: a genuine expression of what is true for us, and an attentive listening to what is true for others
Measures that Drive Performance
a new way to meet that brings people together for productive cross-functional and cross-generational collaboration.
blends large group facilitation methods, arts, and physical experiences with workshops on topics that allow a deep exploration of the overall theme of the event
helps individuals gain the agency and ability to engage meaningfully in their communities and the world at large
preceded by a careful preparation period of getting “people ready, data ready, and place ready” result in plans that transform communities
the circle is a natural way to gather for conversations like our ancestors did - a democratic space where we can look each other in the eye, lean in and listen, and include all voices with a sense of equality
Collaborative Care unites patients, families, and a diverse group of health professionals in creating safe, reliable, and efficient care that is responsive to the needs of each patient. In this care model, providers coordinate, communicate, and remai
a long-term mutual commitment to change used by a small group of people
While the goal of Collaborative Lean is the same as Traditional Lean (to focus on delivering customer value and eliminating waste), Collaborative Lean focuses on the power of habit and the need to engage people emotionally to understand what it is li
Collective Wisdom is a call for people to come together to think collectively about the circumstances they face. It is a guide to reclaiming our participation in groups as positive, necessary, and hopeful without sugarcoating the external challenges
The Conference Model involves the whole system to improve the whole system. People support what they have a hand in creating, while a future designed by only a few creates unnecessary resistance.
When done well, consensus brings everyone along in the decision, with no outvoted minorities left behind. It produces co-owned decisions and superior implementation.
Constellation Work can provide a quick and direct way to discover the underlying dynamics in an organization.
... facilitates identifying external and internal influences that are not immediately obvious, helps in identifying non-linear relationships, and encourages a holistic perspective to resolve tensions between opposing ideas.
Conversation Cafés teach participants how to engage in dialogue, which goes beyond discussion and counters the heated debate mode that fills the airways and twittersphere of our times.
The Cycle of Resolution will help you learn skills that foster resolution in an increasingly complex workplace, even as organizations cut costs, differentiate products, and streamline productivity.
The Drum Café took Nelson Mandela’s philosophy as the core of its approach and during South Africa’s time of transition, it brought the message of cohesion and unity to hundreds of organizations across South Africa.
Dynamic Facilitation is an emergence-based approach to group facilitation that helps people address difficult issues creatively and collaboratively.
EQ-HR workshop will maximize one’s leadership skills through heightened self-awareness, self-management, and group effectiveness.
How can you create the time and space in a team, and facilitate valuable conversations where the communication is open and exploring instead of just giving and receiving information? FuelBox creates that space.
Five Elements Voice Work is a wildly experiential approach to accessing the power of voice in everyday communication.
Future Search provides people with a way of acting systemically. By uniting diverse parties who are each other's “environment,” we enable people to experience themselves connected to a larger whole rather than talk about it as something “out there.”
The purpose of this approach is to apply eight design principles used in video game development to educational settings, such as classes, presentations, training sessions, and workshops.
- increased participation and engagement, better big-picture systems-thinking, and increased retention. As people see their actual words and imagery reflected faithfully, they come alive and contribute more.
A methodology and process foster the incubation of innovative ideas to accelerate into projects toward implementation for local impact. It uses proven techniques to build on the social capital of Extension professionals and their local partners. Toge
Make collaborative experiences relatively easy and practical to start. Liberating Structures start with something so simple and essential as not to seem worth doing and end with something so powerful and profound that it hardly seems possible.
A structured engagement to leverage these insights. In many ways, a Mastermind Group is the opposite of GroupThink in its ability to enable creativity from the thoughts, reflections, and sparks provided by trusted mentors and like-minded allies.
... the process of connecting Metaphorms to continually invent and innovate, to generate and communicate ideas, to solve problems, to freely express your thoughts and feelings, to create and share new knowledge, and to set and achieve goals.
A fast, cheap, and simple way to better, more productive meetings. At a deeper level, it enables people to experience a very different quality of organization in which self-managed workgroups are the norm, just-in-time leadership a constantly shared
Technical problem-solving relies heavily on “either/or” thinking to address complicated issues. Adaptive thinking places heavy reliance on “both/and” thinking to address complex issues. Both thinking competencies are necessary and useful. The purpose
RTSC work is built into how scoping work is approached, change-effort plans are developed, and systemwide changes are made.
A participative process in which a group of people develops a set of strategic goals and tactical action plans that they will later implement.
SOAR stands for strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results. As a framework, SOAR focuses on the formulation and implementation of a positive strategy by identifying strengths and opportunities, encouraging individuals and teams to share aspir
An integrated way to collect both quantitative and qualitative data that will improve your collective understanding by integrating different ways of knowing.
... is synergy of story and theater for bringing individuals into relationship…that’s the special province of Story Bridge. If that’s your challenge, Story Bridge can help.
T-Groups are the best, most applicable way to improve interpersonal skills because learning happens through immediate feedback on real issues as they emerge.
Facilitate a group’s ability to collectively examine their experience and make meaning of it. The techniques offer a transformative path for groups to engage in new, creative ways of thinking, conversing, and acting together.
To help organizations uncover and engage the combined knowledge, wisdom, and heart of their people to meet the challenges of a changing world.
Effective for managing and leading complex change initiatives. It is applicable in any industry, in any country, with any number of people.
An effective change strategy to address complex business challenges like these across the organizational system.
Foster the practice of learning and leading change from the emerging future (not only from the past) through presencing.
A musical intervention for engaging a group that empowers the sense of that group’s community, and allows for an actual tangible shared experience of co-created synergy that can carry over into that group's work practice, collaborations, and relation
Enables a deep, multi-disciplinary, and integrative understanding of complex situations in a short time.
A way to connect teams and communities without academic exercises and allows individual and group expression, literally without “having to put it into words.”
...provides a “learning signal” from the experience of change: illuminating the most impactful information in order to see what is not already obvious. In this way, anticipating the future works within the larger system without adding unnecessary str
A simple, yet powerful method which helps people overcome their hesitation to act on what they already know is important in their lives.
Fosters a vibrant grassroots web, which builds and bridges social capital between individuals, among group members, and across community systems.
An open systems methods that helps organizations or communities get on-top of their unpredictable environment.
... stimulate wonder and awe in the participants through a whole-group process that rejuvenates the will of the group.
Help leadership teams in organizations and communities combine historical hindsight with future-oriented foresight to support insight in present action.
Focus on what is needed most: practical cooperation on complex issues using scientific standards for effective, voluntary, and sustainable results.
A mature meeting operating system makes it easy for everyone to run successful meetings.
Intensive, experimental interventions that bring people from across the system together to seek root causes behind their problems and collaborate on devising and testing solutions aimed at key leverage points.
Create that important space where all viewpoints were heard, leading to: misunderstanding and incorrect assumptions being resolved, a better understanding of each side’s concerns and needs achieved, confirmation of what they had in common, and most i
... particularly useful for those in the helping professions who seek to make deeper contact with others.
... relevant to understanding leadership and followership dynamics, organizational and environmental transformation, and social, political, and economic issues.
a communication process, which helps a group of people to create trust and develop collective intelligence and healing based on transparency, truth, and trust.
Strengthen and broaden partnerships between police and the individuals, groups, and organizations they serve. Outcomes from the process include the opportunity for goodwill, unity, and desire to strengthen relationships.
A cost-effective way to generate community or employee involvement in solving an issue.
A simple, yet powerful conversational process for fostering constructive dialogue, accessing collaborative intelligence, and creating innovative possibilities for action, particularly in groups that are larger than most traditional dialogue approache
Give people the ability to access and use all their individual and collective wisdom, resourcefulness, and curiosity in order to solve big challenges.
Increase the leadership team’s confidence that a strategy will achieve its intended results.
... a holistic approach, which offers you simple and powerful frameworks and processes that support organizations in becoming highly successful, by nurturing a culture of leadership, thriving in change, and at the same time sustaining their health an
Encourage personal reflection on the gap between one’s intentions and one’s impact in relationship to others. Individual success in an HI Lab depends almost exclusively on the ability of the training team to create a “safe space” for individuals to w
... for examination and experimentation by the group members on their interpersonal and group dynamics.
An improvisational theatre format that utilizes personal stories told by audience participants and turns them into compelling theatre on the spot.
Come up with new and innovative ideas through this human-centered approach to problem-solving, that empowers groups in creating services, systems, products, and experiences, which consider the core needs of those who experience the challenge or oppor
... can be used to improve or transform anything that is capable of being designed. It builds consensus because it encourages people to focus on what’s ultimately desired, their ideal rather than “how to get there.”
Bring a diversity of people together in open conversation, in dialogue - the Knowledge Café is the ideal tool to achieve this.
A conversational method, based on exchanging visual stories embedded in various cultures – in order to enhance intercultural sensitivity development and create space for dialog on cultural diversity.
... an invitation to make new experiences, seeing the most different of people collaborate and realizing that it is possible to jointly take decisions for concrete action - without majority votes, spokespersons, or an edge in knowledge.
Purple Squirrel Cafe