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Engaging workshops: 3 fundamentals
• Hear Everyone’s Voice• Create Shared Understanding & Commitment• Think Together Effectively
Mission: to provide tools for engaging people worldwide to learn together & develop creative solutions
Engaging workshops: 3 fundamentals
• Hear Everyone’s Voice• Create Shared Understanding & Commitment• Think Together Effectively
Engaging workshops: 3 fundamentals
• Hear Everyone’s Voice• Create Shared Understanding & Commitment• Think Together Effectively
Hear Everyone’s Voice: the Ketso approach• Provide everyone with the means to contribute ideas
• Give everyone a pen and leaves • Keep checking that everyone has
leaves!
Hear Everyone’s Voice: the Ketso approach• Provide everyone with the means to contribute ideas
• Have a balance of individual and group time
• Give everyone a pen and leaves • Keep checking that everyone has
leaves!
• Think then share• Giving out the different coloured leaves
in stages helps to ‘reset’ the process of ‘think then share’
• Ketso is highly Visual (e.g. coloured leaves built into tree patterns)
• Ketso provides opportunities for listening and speaking (Aural)
• Written words get captured, allowing everyone to Read them
• Ketso is very tactile (moveable pieces good for Kinaesthetic learners)
• You see quantities of leaves and icons• Participants have quiet time to write or
draw (good for reflective learners)
• Use multi-sensory learning to engage everyone
Hear Everyone’s Voice: the Ketso approach
Engaging workshops: 3 fundamentals
• Hear Everyone’s Voice• Create Shared Understanding & Commitment• Think Together Effectively
Create Shared Understanding & Commitment: the Ketso approach
• Felt workspace captures ideas• The trunk (centrepiece) helps keep
focus on the core topic• Branches give (some) structure and
can help people see a bigger picture
• Leave the felt folded until after people have written their first thoughts on the core topic, then see where they fit
• Build a shared picture together
Create Shared Understanding & Commitment: the Ketso approach
• Felt workspace captures ideas• The trunk (centrepiece) helps keep
focus on the core topic• Branches give (some) structure and
can help people see a bigger picture
• Move the leaves, develop clusters• Look at how the different colours are
grouped around the branches • Use icons to show links
• Provide a way for people to build their ideas into a shared picture
• Make connections and look for patterns
Create Shared Understanding & Commitment: the Ketso approach • Lead into commitment to action
• Use icons to prioritise• Build an action plan on the Ketso
grid or Ketso planners• Everybody commits to one action on
their own action card (free top ups!)
Engaging workshops: 3 fundamentals
• Hear Everyone’s Voice• Create Shared Understanding & Commitment• Think Together Effectively
Think Together Effectively: the Ketso approach• Proceed through clear, focussed activities
• Each bit of the kit is designed to engage participants in a different and useful activity
• The coloured leaves guide you through a growth metaphor appropriate for many purposes
• Remember there are open-source, tried & tested sample workshop plans and resources to help you
Think Together Effectively: the Ketso approach • Start with a focus on the positive (e.g. existing
assets)• The first question powerfully sets
the tone and direction for the workshop
• Brown leaves - this is the soil we have to grow ideas in
• What is going well? What works? What are our existing assets? What do we have to work with?
• Use a 'Creativity Sandwich'
Think Together Effectively: the Ketso approach • Start with a focus on the positive (e.g. existing
assets)• The first question powerfully sets the
tone and direction for the workshop• Brown leaves - this is the soil we
have to grow ideas in
• Encourage fresh thinking by looking at future possibilities before problems
• Always allow time to develop solutions to problems – (clouds bring rain, encouraging new growth)
Think Together Effectively: the Ketso approach• The colours guide you through a growth metaphor
• Yellow sun drives growth (goals or actions)
• Grey clouds hide the sun (challenges) & bring rain to encourage new growth
• Green shoots of new ideas (future possibilities)
• Brown soil is what we have to grow our ideas in (existing assets)
Engaging workshops: 9 key principles (recap – useful with or without Ketso!)
Hear Everyone's Voice• Provide everyone with the means to contribute ideas• Have a balance of individual and group time• Use multi-sensory learning to engage everyone
Create Shared Understanding & Commitment• Build a shared picture together• Make connections and find patterns• Lead into commitment to action
Think together effectively• Proceed through clear, focussed activities• Start with a focus on the positive (e.g. existing assets)• Use a 'Creativity Sandwich'
Engaging workshops: the theory
Hear Everyone’s Voice• Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich• Robert Chambers - Participatory Rapid Appraisal• Howard Gardner – multiple intelligences• Edward de Bono - trains of thought & brainstormingCreate Shared Understanding & Commitment• Tony Buzan - Mind Mapping• Fritjof Capra, Peter Checkland, Maturana & Varela– Systems Thinking• Alan Savory – Holistic Resource ManagementThink Together Effectively• David Kolb and Donald Schon - activity-led learning• Edward de Bono – different modes of thinking• George Lakoff - metaphors• Geoffrey Vickers - appreciative inquiry• Caroline Moeser, John McKnight &Jody Kretzmann – asset-based dev.
People with different languages and levels of literacy can engage
• The Ketso is particularly useful for me to communicate with members. My English level is low… It makes me difficult to actively participate group projects.
• Last semester I could not insist my opinion…• However, with the great tool covering many different
kinds of group meetings I was able to clearly suggest my thought on a meeting.
Ideas being heard
• In past experiences of group work, I have often taken a backseat in group discussion as other more outspoken characters tend to hold the discussion. Using Ketso, it is also possible to set aside individual thinking time and sharing time...
• I enjoyed Ketso as I felt it gave everyone a higher sense of equality.