The Change Initiative applies innovative methods which are being used successfully around the world. But we do not offer methods from the shelf – we blend and mix methods to achieve maximum results. Here are some of the key methods and approaches we have used successfully and we are continuously doing our homework in order to improve. hange Initiative applies innovative methods which are being used successfully around the world. But we do not offer methods from the shelf – we blend and mix methods to achieve maximum results. Here are some of the key methods and approaches we have used successfully and we are continuously doing our homework in order to improve.
"Open Space Technology" is the name given to a meeting without a predetermined agenda. Developed in the late 1980s by Harrison Owen the United States this meeting methodology is now used around the world as an effective process for facilitating change in both organizational and community settings. More...
The World Café Methodology is one of the best tools to facilitators to collect the knowledge and intelligence from everyone in the group to solve a problem. It was developed by Juanita Brown and David Isaac. The approach is based on the experience is that most energetic and meaningful conservations usually occur in a casual atmosphere; over a dinner, at a reunion or in a café! The purpose of organizing of World Café is to create a personal and comfortable atmosphere instead of conventional, cold and formal meeting atmosphere, while the issues of the meeting are still seriously attended. More...
Future search is a unique planning method used world-wide by hundreds of communities and organizations. The method enables large diverse groups to (1) validate a common mission, (2) take responsibility for action, and (3) develop commitment to implementation. The method is especially useful in uncertain, fast-changing situations when it is important that everyone have the same large picture in order to act responsibly. Because it is largely culture free, future search is used in North and South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and India to create umbrellas for social, technological and economic planning. More...
Appreciative Inquiry is the cooperative search for the best in people, their organizations, and the world around them. It involves systematic discovery of what gives a system “life” when it is most effective and capable in economic, ecological, and human terms. AI involves the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to heighten positive potential. It mobilizes inquiry through crafting an “unconditional positive question” often involving hundreds and sometimes thousands of people. In AI, intervention gives way to imagination and innovation; instead of negative, criticism, and spiraling diagnosis there is discovery, dream, and design. AI assumes that every living system has untapped, rich, and inspiring accounts of the positive. Ling this “positive change core” directly to any change agenda and changes never thought possible are suddenly and democratically mobilized. More...
Dynamic facilitation is innovative facilitation style that follows the energy of a group without constraining that energy to agendas or exercises. Dynamic facilitation depends on group energy, for example, if there's conflict in the group or the group shares a passionate interest in something. In its very simplied form the facilitator writes people's comments on a number of large flipcharts usually named Problem Statement, Solutions, Concerns and Data. Although a particular group or purpose may require other categories, any group struggling with a situation will find these four categories invite the group's energy to flow in productive directions. Such a way of facilitating can produce the most amazing results and any master facilitator should have this method in his repertoire. More...
