Action learning

Action learning is a process whereby practitioners study their own actions and experience in order to improve performance. This is done in conjunction with others, in small groups called action learning sets.
It increases the real returns on the investment of time and resources in one’s work, by applying the power of good questions to real problems.

>Action learning at Wikipedia

Appeciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry is a particular way of asking questions and envisioning the future that fosters positive relationships and builds on the basic goodness in a person, a situation, or an organization. In so doing, it enhances a system's capacity for collaboration and change. Appreciative Inquiry utilizes a 4-stage process focusing on:

1. DISCOVER: The identification of organizational processes that work well.
2. DREAM: The envisioning of processes that would work well in the future.
3. DESIGN: Planning and prioritizing processes that would work well.
4. DELIVER: The implementation (execution) of the proposed design.

Art of hosting
(meaningful conversation)

A raft of methodologies for facilitating conversation in groups of all sizes, supported by principles that help maximise collective intelligence, integrate and utilise diversity and minimise/transform conflict. Processes facilitated in this way tend to result in collective clarity and wise action - sustainable, workable solutions to the most complex problems. The approach ensures that stakeholders buy into the process (because they participate in the design and the process is by definition transparent) and make ongoing feedback, learning and course correction a natural and efficient part of life.

> Art of hosting website
>Art of hosting TV

Bohmian
Dialogue

Bohmian Dialogue (named after the physicist David Bohm, who developed the technique) is a form of free association conducted in groups. It aims to allow participants to examine their preconceptions, prejudices and patterns of thought.
Participants explore and attempt to ‘think together’ collectively.

>Bohmian Dialogue at Wikipedia
> Excerpts from David Bohm "On dialogue"

Collaborative Learning Expedition

Collaborative Learning Expedition are an action-oriented inquiry conducted online and in-person workshops also known as "base camps". It is designed to achieve specific results for the organisation sponsoring it, typically the enhancement of such strategic capabilities as innovation, collaboration or change management. They are supported by a web-enabled learning architecture and professional facilitation.

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Collaborative Learning Expedition for Enhancing Strategic Capabilities

"A community of practice is: a group of people, who share similar challenges interact regularly learn from and with each other to improve their ability to address their challenges." (Etienne Wenger)

> Communities of Practice

Generative Interviewing

Generative Interviewing is based on establishing relationship in context of authentic interest in the other person well-being and highest potential. In a generative interview, we reach a place where both the interviewer and the interviewee can discover something new about themselves.  

Knowledge ecosystem

An ecosystem is the complex comprising a community of organisms and its environment, functioning as an ecological unit in nature. A knowledge ecosystem is a triple network comprised of:

(a) a people
network of productive conversations that creates

(b) a knowledge
network of shared insights, inspirations, successful practices and frameworks, both of which are supported by

(c) a technology
network of tools and virtual environments.

Living
Report

When a report of an event or collective process connects group input with future action in ways that facilitate the group's momentum, we call it a "living report." In its advanced version, it is a collaboratively scripted workflow, based on the record of a (real-time or asynchronous) conversation, and complete with links to resources relevant to the ensuing action.

In its simpler version, it is a well structured and tagged summary presented on a wiki page, which has links to related materials, references, and physical or virtual spaces designed to facilitate further collaborative action.

>Living Report

Quiet mind skills

The “quiet mind skills” represent a domain of powerful mental functions that are complementary to and essential for the effective use of the “active mind skills.” Quiet mind skills are primarily attentive or receptive mental functions that gather information through the faculty of mindful attention, sensing, and feeling.

Self-assigned
accountability

An “accountability” is what my team/network/community can count on me for. Offering it freely is a statement about one’s commitment to a voluntarily shared purpose and the work needed to realise it. Using self-assigned ccountabilities
is a bottom-up way of coordinating collaborative work.

Spiral Dynamics

Spiral Dynamics is a theory of human development introduced in the 1996 book Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Chris Cowan. The book was based on the theory of psychology professor Clare W. Graves, and originally targeted at a business management audience. Spiral Dynamics argues that human nature is not fixed: humans are able, when forced by life conditions, to adapt to their environment by constructing new, more complex, conceptual models of the world that allow them to handle the new problems. Each new model includes and transcends all previous models.

Theory U /
Presencing

Theory U is a social technology of freedom concerned by “leading from the future as it emerges,” developed by professor Otto Scharmer (MIT) who wrote:

"Presencing," a blend of the words "presence" and "sensing," refers to the ability to sense and bring into the present one's highest future potential—as an individual and as a group. Theory U offers both a new theoretical perspective and a practical social technology.
As a theoretical perspective, Theory U suggests that the way in which we attend to a situation determines how a situation unfolds: I attend this way, therefore it emerges that way. As a practical social technology, Theory U offers a set of principles and practices for collectively creating the future that wants to emerge (following the movements of co-initiating, co-sensing, co-inspiring, co-creating, and co-evolving).

> Presencing Institute

The Wisdom Council enables wise and sustainable decision-making by looking into an issue, challenge or question from eight distinct perspectives that make up a sequence of wholeness. By evoking the individual and collective wisdom, a more profound understanding of the whole system and deeper insights are generated, leading to more balanced and informed decisions.

> Wisdom Council on The Change Handbook

World Café

World Café is a conversational process based on a set of integrated design principles that reveal a deeper living network pattern through which we co-evolve our collective future.

> World Café webpages