Tools and Resources

It is important to master different tools, but the tools always need to be combined, reinvented and applied to the context.

Below is a collection of some of the tools and methods used in LearningHouse. We find ways to connect and develop new versions of long-lived methods.

Appreciative Inquiry
Developed by David L. Cooperrider and Diana Whitney, Appreciative Inquiry is about "the coevolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them." > Appreciative Inquiry Commons

'Ba'-shared space
'Ba' is a shared context in motion in which knowledge is created, shared, and utilized (Nonaka, Toyama, and Konno, 2000) and can be used as a principle for organising a place or a learning process. An article by Nonaka & al.: > Building Ba to Enhance Knowledge Creation and Innovation at Large Firms

Dialogue
David Bohm originated a related form of dialogue where a group of people talk together in order to explore their assumptions of thinking, meaning, communication, and social effects. This group consists of ten to thirty people who meet for a few hours regularly or a few continuous days. Dialoguers agree to leave behind debate tactics that attempt to convince and, instead, talk from their own experience on subjects that are improvised on the spot. "Dialogue is a method where a group becomes open to the flow of a larger intelligence." - David Bohm

Learning Organisation and Organisational Learning Disciplines
Peter Senge defines learning organisations as "organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together." > Society for Organisational Learning

Multimedia & graphic facilitation
Multimedia and graphic facilitation is a dynamic way of creating a powerful learning event and capture the knowledge by visuals. > Bigger Picture

Open Space
Open Space Technology is a method originally designed by Harrison Owen which allows maximum participation in a learning event. > Open Space World

Presencing and the U-theory
"Presencing is a social technology for collectively leading profound change. It is based on Theory U, which illuminates a blind spot in leadership and social experience: the source or the inner place from which leaders and systems operate." - Otto Scharmer > Presencing

Strategic Learning Contract
A powerful self-managed learning tool developed by Ian Cunningham.
> Centre for Self-managed Learning

World Café
World Café is a creative process for leading collaborative dialogue, sharing knowledge and creating possibilities for action in groups of all sizes. > The World Café