15% Solutions
15% Solutions is a prompted conversation exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- First alone, each person generates his or her own list of 15% Solutions. 5 min.
- Individuals share their ideas with a small group (2 to 4 members). 3 min. per person and one person at a time
- Group members provide a consultation to one another (asking clarifying questions and offering advice). 5 to 7 min. per person and one person at a time
- Move away from blockage, negativism, and powerlessness
- Have people discover their individual and collective power
- Share actionable ideas and help one another
- Remember unused capacity and resources (15 percent is always there for the taking)
- At a minimum, these will create momentum, and that may make a BIG difference.
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Prompts to use +
First alone, each person generates his or her own list of 15% Solutions. 5 min.
Individuals share their ideas with a small group (2 to 4 members). 3 min. per person and one person at a time
Group members provide a consultation to one another (asking clarifying questions and offering advice). 5 to 7 min. per person and one person at a time
Move away from blockage, negativism, and powerlessness
Have people discover their individual and collective power
Share actionable ideas and help one another
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: 15% Solutions. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: First alone, each person generates his or her own list of 15% Solutions. 5 min.; Individuals share their ideas with a small group (2 to 4 members). 3 min. per person and one person at a time; Group members provide a consultation to one another (asking clarifying questions and offering advice). 5 to 7 min. per person and one person at a time; Move away from blockage, negativism, and powerlessness. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Liberating Structures; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (2 sources observed, including Liberating Structures, SessionLab.)
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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