Dave Snowden
Academic, Founder, Practitioner, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Why they matter for gatherings
Dave Snowden is an academic, founder, practitioner, and trainer known for developing methods such as the Cynefin Framework and Cynefin Sense-Making Workshops. He has authored four books on complexity and sensemaking.
Facilitators and event designers may find his established methods useful for structured facilitation. His work contributes foundational approaches in complexity-based sensemaking for group settings.
His methods include the Cynefin Framework, Cynefin Sense-Making Workshops, and Anecdote Circles.
Here is how those methods work in practice.
The methods, ready to run
Named methods, and the exercises in our library that put them to work.
Cynefin Sense-Making Workshop
Cynefin / Sensemaking Workshops
Cynefin Framework
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Where you can see them practiced
Gold-set agendas that visibly put these methods to work.
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Evidence and receipts
Sources
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