facilitation manual
modules/assignments
explore a series of assignments that give a theme and direction to each module of your event.

• ANDmap
• author to author
• best case/worst case
• complex system experience
• dialogue
• inovator's game
• inventions
• legends
• living systems
• metaphors
• mind map
• model building
• quaker conversation
• scenario timeline
• sytopical reading
• take-a-panel/share-a-panel/synthesis
• terms of art
• weak signal research
• why it won't work
• win as much as you can














 

 
living systems: description
To understand organizations, it's often instructive to look at life and how living things work. In this module, a DesignTeam (or teams) compare the model of Living Systems (based on the work of biologist James Grier Miller) to the activities of their organization (or industry, society, etc.). This is an analysis exercise that can be part of Scan or Focus.