Discovery & Action Dialogue • WorkshopBank
Discovery & Action Dialogue • WorkshopBank is a circle dialogue exercise for context sharing: it helps participants share useful personal or project context.
How to run it
- Identify a shared, chronic problem the group faces. Frame it clearly before the session, for example: "How do we reduce handover errors between shifts?" or "How do we keep new starters engaged in their first 90 days?"
- Write the seven DAD questions on a flip chart and place it where all participants can see it.
- Arrange seating in a circle or close cluster. Keep it informal. If you can hold the dialogue where participants do their actual work, do so.
- Recruit a recorder (called the "Butterfly Catcher" in Liberating Structures terminology) who will capture insights and action ideas on the flip chart as they emerge.
- As people arrive, make impromptu invitations for others nearby to join. DAD works best when it draws in people who weren't necessarily expecting to participate.
- A small group sits together and works through seven progressive questions designed to surface what some people are doing differently to get better results, even though they face the same constraints as everyone else.
- Also Known As DAD Positive Deviance Dialogue When to Use It A team or community faces a chronic, recurring problem that standard approaches have failed to fi
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Identify a shared, chronic problem the group faces. Frame it clearly before the session, for example: "How do we reduce handover errors between shifts?" or "How do we keep new starters engaged in their first 90 days?"
Write the seven DAD questions on a flip chart and place it where all participants can see it.
Arrange seating in a circle or close cluster. Keep it informal. If you can hold the dialogue where participants do their actual work, do so.
A small group sits together and works through seven progressive questions designed to surface what some people are doing differently to get better results, even though they face the same constraints as everyone else.
Also Known As DAD Positive Deviance Dialogue When to Use It A team or community faces a chronic, recurring problem that standard approaches have failed to fi
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Discovery & Action Dialogue • WorkshopBank. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Identify a shared, chronic problem the group faces. Frame it clearly before the session, for example: "How do we reduce handover errors between shifts?" or "How do we keep new starters engaged in their first 90 days?"; Write the seven DAD questions on a flip chart and place it where all participants can see it.; Arrange seating in a circle or close cluster. Keep it informal. If you can hold the dialogue where participants do their actual work, do so.; A small group sits together and works through seven progressive questions designed to surface what some people are doing differently to get better results, even though they face the same constraints as everyone else.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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