<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Session Designers,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As you have probably noticed, I’ve just run another Session Design Lab and we have more Lab Mates joining us on the List.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An interesting question came up during the lab about whether ADIDS is applicable to any sort of convening whether its a handful of people or larger OR is it really just applicable to a learning/teaching frame. I’ve been reflecting on this quite a bit. Curious about people’s experiences applying ADIDS in a variety of different contexts. I realised that my default setting is to treat any gathering as a learning opportunity - no matter what the objective, you are likely to do some form of knowledge sharing, reflection and then applying that learning to the future. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So for instance, over the last year, I’ve been designing and facilitating strategy implementation meetings for a number of organisations. The number of participants have ranged from 4 to 16 people. The design of these meetings generally go like this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Small group breakouts to discuss recent implementation, what’s happened and what’s been learned since the last meeting.</div><div class="">2. Reflection on the learnings identified in the small groups. </div><div class="">3. Large group discussion on how to apply those learnings to the next phase of the strategy</div><div class="">4. Planning the next phase - often in small groups made up of teams</div><div class="">5. Roadmapping the next phase - usually building a calendar of upcoming milestone in a shared spreadsheet so everyone can review and see potential conflicts, points where the org might be overwhelmed and an opportunity to make adjustments. </div><div class="">6. Concluding with what are people excited about and most important, what do they want to learn as individuals in the next phase of implementation (this can also be a point of reference in the next meeting - in my rich fantasy life, I call this the “self-reflective framework”)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In terms of ADIDS - </div><div class="">1 is the A- activity that gets people grounded, if it’s been a rough period - this activity might also include some venting time.</div><div class="">2 is the D - discussion, where you are getting people to articulate their own learning</div><div class="">3 IS ACTUALLY I-INPUT, even though it looks like more discussion. This is where you surface the expertise/knowledge they need to apply to the future, it’s just that you aren’t doing it for them (though often I might interject a story or two that I know about from an external org that has had a similar experience).</div><div class="">4 & 5. Are both D- deepening, where they are apply that knowledge</div><div class="">6 is synthesis - where it’s all coming together and they can see beyond the tasks. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For me, regardless of the intent of the gathering, what is really critical is for me to know the journey people need to make during that gathering - I can’t really think of a gathering where there isn’t knowledge exchange amongst the participants, digesting that knowledge/learning and then applying that learning to plans for the future. I also think it’s gold if that point of Input can be sourced from the participants rather than external expertise needing to come in. This can really help build confidence within a group. I often find that I’m reinforcing the good stuff with external stories, rather than contradicting any learning that’s come up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Wondering about other people’s experiences, especially as you have been trying to apply ADIDS in different contexts - have you hacked it? Have you found different sequencing that works? If so, what (and particularly) what context?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks in advance,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">DIrk</div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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