Challenge Intervention
Group facilitation methods: Running in a Rut
Identification
- to force yourself or other people out of a thinking rut.
The Challenge Intervention can be used in any workshop where the group seems to be repeating itself or running in rut.
Howto
Find something to challenge and question it deeply. You can challenge many things, including:
* Concepts - and broad ideas
* Assumptions - and beliefs that are not questioned
* Compromises - that you assume must happen
* Boundaries - across which you do not yet cross
* Operations - and processes whereby things get done
* 'Impossible' - things that are assumed cannot happen
* 'Can't be done' - things that are assumed cannot be done
* 'Essentials' - things that you assume cannot be disposed of
* Either-or thinking - replacing with 'and' thinking
* Sacred cows - that cannot be challenged
* Patterns - of behavior, visuality, etc.
* Functions - the way things work
* Paradigms - that guide thinking (and not thinking)
* Dominant ideas - that guide thinking
* polarizing tendencies - that push people to extremes
