Our Favourite Tools

Grape People develops organisations through facilitation and participative practices. Within this work we use many group tools. The tools are not "tricks" - they are well thought out frameworks for enabling better dialogue and decision making in groups. Such frameworks help create and sustain global learning organisations.

• Grape Cocktails: an active and dynamic dialogue method which can be used to create a shared reality and for simple warm ups
• MeWeUs: a method to ensure complete participation; for medium level divergence, quick convergence and agreeing a shared understanding.
  
• Facilitated Conversations: a series of socratic style questions for ensuring understanding and action.
  
• Force Field Analysis: to deal participatively with resistance to change
• Idealogue: generating options and developing ideas through revolving dialogues; particularly good for making visual action plans that hold.
  
• Dynamic Facilitation: a meeting tool for creating understanding around complex situations. A perfect tool for clarifying and solving problems
  
• World Café: an inclusive method for creating dialogue and understanding across larger groups
• Open Space Technology: based on the philosophy of self-organizing groups and designed for groups of 10-1000 participants
• Knowledge Café: an interactive method to reach tacit knowledge and shared understanding
  
• Spark Plugs: an inspirational visual method to produce out-of-the-box ideas and get new perspectives through conversations; used typically at the beginning of an innovation processes
  
• Pathways to Action: for planning the stages of a group problem solving process
  
• Intervention model: a tool for dealing with difficult situations and designing powerful group interventions
  
• Appreciative Inquiry: a process for positive change
• Future Search Conferences: designed to define the preferred future state for a group of people  through finding common ground among the diverse participants
• Our toolbox includes many fresh tools for beginning workshops and energizing groups and dozens of methods for generating and selecting ideas and a whole collection of ideation techniques based on art, drama and structured thinking.
  

If you want to learn to use these group tools yourself, you're welcome to attend one of our Facilitation Trainings >.