Generative Relationships STAR
Generative Relationships STAR is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Invite participants to assess their working group or team in terms of four attributes:
- S Separateness: the amount of diversity in perspective, expertise, and background among group members
- T Tuning: the level of listening deeply, reflecting, and making sense of challenges together
- A Action: the number of opportunities to act on ideas or innovate with group members
- R Reason to work together: the benefits that are gained from working together
- How Space Is Arranged and Materials Needed
- Tables for small groups of 4, with a STAR compass graphic and pens for each individual
- . How Space Is Arranged and Materials Needed
- All members of the group diagnose current relationship patterns and decide how to follow up with action steps together, without intermediaries.
- The STAR compass tool helps group members understand what makes their relationships more or less generative.
- Invite participants to assess their working group or team in terms of four attributes: S Separateness: the amount of diversity in perspective, expertise, and background among group members T Tuning: the level of listening deeply, reflecting, and making sense of challenges together
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Invite participants to assess their working group or team in terms of four attributes:
All members of the group diagnose current relationship patterns and decide how to follow up with action steps together, without intermediaries.
Invite participants to assess their working group or team in terms of four attributes: S Separateness: the amount of diversity in perspective, expertise, and background among group members T Tuning: the level of listening deeply, reflecting, and making sense of challenges together
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Generative Relationships STAR. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Invite participants to assess their working group or team in terms of four attributes:; All members of the group diagnose current relationship patterns and decide how to follow up with action steps together, without intermediaries.; Invite participants to assess their working group or team in terms of four attributes: S Separateness: the amount of diversity in perspective, expertise, and background among group members T Tuning: the level of listening deeply, reflecting, and making sense of challenges together. 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 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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