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‘PICTURE THIS' - THE VISUAL EXPLORATION OF COMPLEX TOPICS
What is ‘Picture This’?‘Picture This’ is a facilitated process that enables groups to fully explore complex topics, while making sense of this complexity. It involves and engaging all group members on an equal footing, leading to coherence through dialogue. The process facilitates clarity of understanding, and prepares the group for making the decisions that will lead to action and results.
What does ‘Picture This’ do?The ‘Picture This’ process allows group members to explore complex topics from various different perspectives, thus creating a shared understanding and preparing them for taking effective action, through mediated dialogue. Whilst it is one part of a larger process, and does not in itself bring about decisions or suggest actions related to any specific issues, the process helps the group to unlock their shared consciousness, towards better understanding the context and the perspectives that surround the decisions they make, and the actions they take.
How does ‘Picture This’ work?‘Picture This’ is designed to unlock and support constructive dialogue. It comprises a large collection of high-quality color images that are visually interesting and which covers almost every aspect of our complex environment. Participants become engaged, and actively involved, thus creating an enabling environment within which the group can fully explore new ideas and possibilities. First, the group agrees on the topic that it wants to explore (sometimes, the group – or it’s leader – knows exactly what the ‘real’ topic is coming into the work-session with Stef, whilst at other times this may only emerge as a result of facilitated dialogue). Then each member of the group creates a collection of images that s/he intuitively or literally connects to the topic. For example, a person may choose a picture of a winding road and think This symbolises the changes and redirections that face our team. As they later relate the connections between the topic and their selected images, group members tell their own stories or create metaphors about the topic from their point of view. Likewise, they hear the perspectives of others. This conversation brings about a more thorough and shared understanding of the topic, which can then lead to further action: like establishing a vision; reaching a decision; assigning critical tasks, and so on).
When does ‘Picture This’ work?When a group is engaged in these, or similar, activities:
Who Participates?Suitable for all levels of staff, and applicable to all sectors of all industries. Number of delegates: Minimum 5 and maximum 50.
FormatWorkshop in the form of a facilitated process (60 - 90 minutes).
Equipment and VenueAny venue. Stef provides all equipment. |
