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Focused Conversation

Focused Conversation

Basic tool for hosting structured and inclusive conversations
The Focused Conversation offers participants a clear structure for effective communication, conversation and decision making around a topic, problem or experience. It encourages the sharing of experiences and provides valuable new insights and perspectives. It’s created by the Institute of Cultural Affairs.

What is
Focused Conversation
about ?

What is
Focused Conversation
about ?
What is this Basic Tool about ?

The Focused Conversation method provides an effective structure for discussion to take place. It works well because it follows a natural human process of experiencing, thinking and deciding. The method provides the facilitator with the set of tools to skilfully formulate questions that allow all participants to contribute to a genuinely inclusive discussion that achieves the conversation’s intended aims.

When and why is this Basic Tool used ?

The Focused Conversation can be used in any conversation a group of people is having, where they need to come up with a collective way forward. It helps people to flow through a natural thinking process collectively and not get stuck.

Focused Conversation can be used in many situations as a basis to:

  • Collect data and ideas
  • Discuss difficult issues
  • Reflect on important issues or events
  • Work as a group on presentations and reports
  • Reflect on accomplishments or failures, with an opportunity for learning
  • Focus multiple interests on a particular topic or issues
  • Increase understanding of ‘givens’ in a situation
  • Explore levels of consensus that may already exist within the group
  • Avoid heated arguments by provoking thoughtful dialogue
  • Move any discussion to a productive end
  • Reach a level of shared awareness on a given topic or issue
Additional Questions about the Basic Tool
Have you ever been in a conversation that has gone around in circles, where people talk but fail to really communicate? Have you experienced discussions where some dominate the conversation while others don’t contribute at all?
Many of us identify with the experience of sitting in a meeting after which we are not clear what decisions had been made and how or why certain conclusions had been reached. The Focused Conversation tool provides effective structure for discussion to take place.
Ken Wilber
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Audience

Audience

Is participant experience relevant for Focused Conversation ?

It's okay if participants haven't seen the inside of a classroom in years

Audience description for Focused Conversation

Any groups that would like to communicate more effectively & inclusively. Facilitators that are looking for a basic tool to host clear and structured conversations.

Requirements

Requirements
Experience level of the facilitator
Routine as participant OR professional facilitator
Number of Facilitators :  
1

Run Through

Run Through
Prep Work (excluding materials)

Prepare the structure that you would like to follow. What is the conversation about? What could be helpful questions in each of the phases?

Pre Exercise
Check-in, warming-up
Post Exercise

Check-out or closing

Online

Online
Potential for Solely Online & Blended Learning

Yes, the facilitator can follow the same structure

Focused Conversation
project

project

IN WHICH THIS method WAS DEVELOPED
 
 
 
Hosting Empowerment
Hosting Empowerment
ERASMUS +

ERASMUS +

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union. Find more information about the program and its goals here: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/.

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

Creative Commons license:

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