In this DwD session with Stephen Sillett, we explored the nature of emergence in structured facilitated workshops and the approaches to breaking structure in planning and convening to create the conditions for generative emergence. A good cross-section of Toronto’s current generation of innovation leaders attended, about evenly balance between social innovators and business/design consultants. Th first sketch […]
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Design, innovation outcomes
Facilitating Co-Creation – Design Patterns for Dialogue
How do we design dialogues? With 35 participants, July’s DwD explored the patterns for design for dialogue events, for clients, organizations, and communities. We explored the patterns and elements of effective group processes expressed in both theory and our experience, with guidance from emerging process design tools. What patterns and modes of engagement enable committed […]
The Art of Listening: Learning to Harvest a Collective Story
DwD 05.14.14 How does deep listening create a context for the emergence of meaning? How might our ways of listening inspire a deeper experience and reality of community? — May’s DwD explored collective and intentional listening as a way to explore how we make sense of the stories we tell about our communities, and where […]