What social practices support more contact and co-evolution with the context around (and “inside”) us?
Note that this list is
- my understanding of the social practice highlighting how it relates to the work on my page, not an exhaustive description and
- it contains only those practices that are done as a group. (For example, individual coaching or meditation is great for organizations but works indirectly since it’s primarily an individual practice.)
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ACT matrix (Acceptance and commitment therapy)
I learned about the ACT matrix from Prosocial, a body of work dear to my…
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Advice process (intentional feedback)
What’s known as “the advice process” (through Laloux’s Reinventing Organizations) is a defined process of…
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Agile/scrum
Agile is a product development method or framework that bundles different practices as well as…
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Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry is a method for organizational work that focuses on strengths and what gives…
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Ariane Paradigm
The Ariane paradigm provides a structured approach for groups to navigate complexity. It integrates a…
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Circles
Circles are a structural pattern used in many organizational frameworks – from traditional governance to…
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Consent
Consent is a decision-making method and as such, its intention is to make a formal…
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Constellation work
Constellation work is a practice originally developed in family systems therapy, but it has since…
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Dialogue (Bohm)
Bohmian dialogue is less a technique than a collective posture.A handful or up to 20ish…
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Dialogue Mapping
Dialogue mapping, developed by Jeff Conklin, is a facilitation technique that helps groups navigate complex,…
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Dragon Dreaming
Dragon Dreaming is a visioning process consisting of four phases: Dreaming, Planning, Doing, and Celebrating. …
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Estuarine Mapping
Estuarine Mapping, developed by Dave Snowden (the mind behind Cynefin which helps groups understand the…
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Kanban board and Obeya
A Kanban board maps tasks across columns representing different stages of work, usually on cards.…
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Nonviolent Communication
The premise of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is that all human beings have needs that need…
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Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
OKRs are the practice of defining ambitious objectives to prioritize for a time bound interval,…
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Open Space Technology
Open Space Technology is a facilitation method developed by Harrison Owen in the 1980s, designed…
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Restorative Circles
Restorative Circles are a patterned way of healing rifts in our social realm – when…
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Rounds
Rounds are a social practice that I got to know through sociocracy. It’s the simple…
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Scenario Planning
Scenario Planning is a structured method for imagining multiple plausible futures and preparing for them.…
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Sociocracy
Sociocracy is a governance system that supports organizations in making all the decisions needed to…
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The Work That Reconnects
The Work That Reconnects by Joanna Macy already mentions in its title what it’s all…
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Theory U
Theory U is a framework for deep change, developed by Otto Scharmer. It invites individuals…
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Triple Loop Learning
Triple loop learning improves how we do, learn and think.
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Warm data labs
Warm data labs were designed by Nora Bateson. In this practice, small groups connect on…
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World Café
World Café is a conversational pattern where small groups talk about a topic at different…
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2 responses to “Social practices”
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Emergent Dialogue, and other Intersubjective Practices such as the Mutual Awakening Practice by Patricia Albere. ALso, Warm Data by Nora Bateson is rapidly building in the outside lane….
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Also Heart Circles by Tej Steiner, Speaking Circles & Relational Presence by Lee Glickstein, Dynamic Facilitation by Jim Rough, and Asset Based Community Development by John McKnight
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