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Facilitating participative change

There is no best way to effect change. The success of an approach depends on the circumstances and the nature of a problem or issue. A change strategy must be carefully selected. I work with participative change approaches as Large Scale Interventions (LSI) and Learning Histories. LSI is a participative, co-creative approach for change. LSI is for people who want to use their creative powers to the fullest. It facilitates ownership and building capacity for change in an organisation or community, as opposed to tell, sell or test approaches.

Contact me to consider organising a participative change process if you want to :

  • Deal with complex situations, with unresolved questions

  • Develop a sense of community, even among very different participants

  • Facilitate breakthrough thinking and innovation

  • Create a clear picture for everyone in the company/organisation/community and thus focus energies

  • Produce breakthrough results in cases of urgent problems

  • Facilitate "multi-stakeholder" processes in situation where many parties have to collaborate on common ground to realise a desired future

Large Scale Interventions bring people together to build a framework that supports shared agreements for action. It also supports fast change. LSI enables (very larges numbers of) people to work together and:

  • Understand the need for change

  • Analyse current reality, in relation to the past and to possible futures

  • Design and perform the change process

Read more about Large Scale Interventions on my website www.largescaleinterventions.com, or the Wiki of my research project on success factors and effects of LSI.

 

References facilitating participative change:

  • Several large group conferences to initiate cooperation in change processes or as network start-up

  • Future search for policy consultants of an organisation for development cooperation

  • Conference for collaboration of stakeholders in a multi-functional centre in a town district

  • Interactive process to develop a new business concept for a branch organisation of libraries

  • Two day workshop "Dynamics in the organisation", for strategic development of a consultancy group in the education sector, using Group Model Building technique

  • Large group conference with a representation of learning network around a secondary school, to envision future cooperation for innovation of talent development of children

  • Involvement of parents in school development; large scale intervention with stakeholders of 24 primary schools

  • Participative process for development of a new system of fringe benefits for a Water Board

Categorized according the knowledge layers of the logic of will, discipline and communication, the roles I can fulfil as an external advisor are:

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