Pro Action Cafe
A blend of Open Space and World Cafe that gets large groups of people working on action, in a co-creative, peer coaching environment.
Library of facilitation techniques
Workshop activities to Analyse, Understand and Innovate
Tools and techniques to analyse and understand complex situations, to unleash creativity and to discover new insights. Make sure your group explores the situation at hand and all participants get a thorough understanding before moving on to make decisions.
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WWWWWH
‘Who, What, Where, When, Why and How’ is a method used to obtain a thorough understanding of a problem.
SQUID
When exploring an information space, it’s important for a group to know where they are at any given time. By using SQUID, a group charts out the territory as they go and can navigate accordingly. SQUID stands for Sequential Question and Insight Diagram.
Lean Coffee
Discuss many different topics in a structured and fair way.
How to make toast
Use this exercise to introduce people to analyse and solve problems together. Everyone feels engaged and is part of the solution.
Fishbone diagram
Fishbone diagrams show the causes of a specific event.
Words and Pictures
This is a modification of an interactive lecture activity that is transformed into a textra game. This activity can be inserted after participants finish reading a handout. It involves a poster preparation contest that taps into the listeners' linguistic and visual intelligences.
I notice, I wonder
Learn through careful observation.
Observation and intuition are critical design tools. This exercise helps you leverage both. Find clues about the context you're designing for that may be hidden in plain sight.
Concept Map
Studenten maken een Concept Map om concepten en thema’s te identificeren en de onderlinge relaties te visualiseren.
In een Concept Map kunnen de relaties en verhoudingen tussen ideeën, concepten en belangen schematisch weergegeven worden, zodat het verband met het centrale onderwerp of idee zichtbaar wordt.
Elevator Pitch
De kern van je boodschap in 1 minuut kunnen presenteren zonder ondersteuning van audiovisuele middelen.
In dit voorbeeld presenteren studenten binnen de cursus "De Handelend Mens" een voorbereidende opdracht aan elkaar. Op basis van deze pitches worden onderzoeksonderwerpen bepaald en onderzoeksgroepen gevormd.
Blame or Praise
This exercise is based on Joshua Knobe's experiments on intentional activity and side effects. It explores how a person's intentions affect our decision to assign blame or praise to a behaviour.
Participants work with two different versions of the same situation. One version focuses on a harmful side effect of a decision, while the other deals with a helpful side effect. The debriefing discussion explores how we are more willing to blame for harmful side effects than praise for helpful side effects.
Features
Understanding and analyzing a piece of advice are important activities. Here is a game that requires the participants to analyze the features associated with different pieces of advice.