Critical Collaboration
Critical Collaboration is a prompted conversation exercise for context sharing: it helps participants share useful personal or project context.
How to run it
- At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to
- Reflect upon and question starting assumptions, sources, perspectives, and biases.
- Reflect upon and better understand the role of emotional triggers in discussion.
- Improve expansive thinking and comfort with multidirectional exploration and ambiguity in group discussions.
- Encourage anticipatory thinking about unintended consequences.
- Practice generous interpretation and seek out the complexity of issues.
- Over time, we learn how to think and communicate about certain topics, which can act as a blinder and prevent us from seeing issues more fully.
- The activities in this module can help groups pause and critically question their assumptions, biases, and habits of engagement to improve collaboration.
- At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to Reflect upon and question starting assumptions, sources, perspectives, and biases.
Run this exercise live
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Prompts to use +
Reflect upon and question starting assumptions, sources, perspectives, and biases.
Reflect upon and better understand the role of emotional triggers in discussion.
At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to Reflect upon and question starting assumptions, sources, perspectives, and biases.
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: Critical Collaboration. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Reflect upon and question starting assumptions, sources, perspectives, and biases.; Reflect upon and better understand the role of emotional triggers in discussion.; At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to Reflect upon and question starting assumptions, sources, perspectives, and biases.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Collaborative Discussion Project; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Collaborative Discussion Project.)
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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.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.