Social Network Webbing
Social Network Webbing is a name learning exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Ask them to name the people they are currently working with and those they would like to include in the future (i.e., people with influence or expertise they need to achieve their purpose)
- Invite them to “weave” connections in the network web to advance their purpose
- . How Space Is Arranged and Materials Needed
- A long open wall with a tapestry paper or multiple flip-chart pages
- by-2-inch Post-it notes in at least 8 colors
- How Space Is Arranged and Materials Needed
- All methods All authors IAF Library Library Social Network Webbing 167 103 Social Network Webbing quickly illuminates for a whole group what resources are hidden within their existing network of relationships and what steps to take for tapping those resources.
- It also makes it easy to identify opportunities for building stronger connections as well as new ones.
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Prompts to use +
Ask them to name the people they are currently working with and those they would like to include in the future (i.e., people with influence or expertise they need to achieve their purpose)
Invite them to “weave” connections in the network web to advance their purpose
All methods All authors IAF Library Library Social Network Webbing 167 103 Social Network Webbing quickly illuminates for a whole group what resources are hidden within their existing network of relationships and what steps to take for tapping those resources.
It also makes it easy to identify opportunities for building stronger connections as well as new ones.
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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: Social Network Webbing. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask them to name the people they are currently working with and those they would like to include in the future (i.e., people with influence or expertise they need to achieve their purpose); Invite them to “weave” connections in the network web to advance their purpose; All methods All authors IAF Library Library Social Network Webbing 167 103 Social Network Webbing quickly illuminates for a whole group what resources are hidden within their existing network of relationships and what steps to take for tapping those resources.; It also makes it easy to identify opportunities for building stronger connections as well as new ones.. 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.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- 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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