Academic settings: Cocktail PartyConversational RolesDeliberative PollingFacilitator SummaryIf You Could Only Ask One QuestionJigsawNewsprint DialogueParticipation RubricParticipatory Decision MakingQuestion BrainstormQuotes to Affirm and ChallengeRotating StationsSetting Ground RulesStrategic QuestioningTitling the Text
Active listening: Circle of VoicesCircular ResponseClearness CommitteeCritical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)Narrative Listening and QuestioningSingle Word Sum-UpsStand Where You StandTeam ModelingUnderstanding Check
Adversarial/controversial topics: Canvassing for Common GroundConversational RolesDeliberative PollingHatful of Quotes to discuss Today’s Meet technique for unbridgeable positions
Alinsky, Saul
Anonymity: Structured SilenceToday’s Meet
Appreciative Pause technique: description and purposes of how it works questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate where and when it works well. See also Sticky Note Plaudit technique
B
Baptiste, I.
Big picture discussions (Chalk Talk)
Blaming (or hectoring)
Boal, A.
Body language: showing interest in what speakers say using; of those who want to join the discussion Writing Discussion
Bohm, David
Bohmian Dialogue technique: description and purposes of; how, were, and when it works questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Brainstorming: caution against killing it with critique; Question BrainstormSetting Ground Rules
Brookfield, S. D.
Building group cohesion: Appreciative Pause—Stickyy Note PlauditCanvassing for Common GroundCircular ResponseClearness CommitteeCritical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)JigsawMusicalizing DiscussionMutual InvitationNarrative Listening and QuestioningParticipatory Decision MakingUnderstanding Check. See also Large groups; Small groups
C
Canvassing for Common Ground technique: description and purposes of how, were, and when it works questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Chalk Talk technique: description and purposes of how, were, and when it works questions most suited to what to watch out for what users appreciate
Circle of Voices technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works wells questions suited to what to watch out for what users appreciate most about the
Circular Response technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions suited to what to watch out for what users appreciate
Classrooms. See Academic settings
Clearness Committee technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well
Cocktail Party technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Collaboration: Bohmian DialogueJigsawParticipation Rubric. See also Decision making discussions
Color of Fear (film)
Comfort zone. See Getting out of the comfort zone
Common ground. SeeCanvassing for Common Ground technique
Community-based settings: Canvassing for Common GroundDeliberative PollingIf You Could Only Ask One QuestionMusicalizing DiscussionNewsprint DialogueOpen-ended QuestionsParticipatory Decision MakingQuestion BrainstormQuotes to Affirm and ChallengeRotating StationsStrategic Questioning
Conflict management: Canvassing for Common GroundDramatizing DiscussionHatful of Quotes to get past conflict
Consensus: basic principles for moving toward; Canvassing for Common Ground watch out for routinized
Controversial/adversarial topics: Canvassing for Common GroundConversational RolesDeliberative PollingHatful of Quotes to discuss Today’s Meet technique for unbridgeable positions
Conversational Moves technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Conversational Roles technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that suit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Creativity: Drawing DiscussionMusicalizing DiscussionOpen-ended QuestionsTitling the Text
Critical Conversation Protocol technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Critical Debate technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this technique what to watch out for what users appreciate
Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIA) technique: Circle of Voices second-round ground rule violation addressed during; description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Critical thinking: Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)Deliberative PollingSingle Word Sum-UpsWhat Do You Think?
D
Debriefing: caution against skipping the Strategic Questioning; Rotating Stations and possible flops with Rotating Stations for Today’s Meet for small-group reports
Decision making discussions: Canvassing for Common GroundClearness CommitteeCritical Conversation ProtocolCritical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)Deliberative PollingJigsawNominating QuestionsParticipatory Decision MakingSetting Ground RulesTitling the TextWhat Are You Hearing?. See also Collaboration
Dedrick, J.
Deliberative Polling technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Democracy Project (Graeber)
Democratize participation techniques: Canvassing for Common GroundChalk TalkCircle of VoicesCircular ResponseCritical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)Deliberative PollingNewsprint DialogueNominating QuestionsOpen-ended QuestionsParticipatory Decision MakingRotating StationsSnowballingToday’s Meet. See also Equality; Participation
Diverse participants: Chalk Talk technique for Structured SilenceTeam Modeling
Dramatizing Discussion technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate Drawing Discussion technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Equality: Open-ended Questions; Participatory Decision MakingStructured Silence. See also Democratize participation techniques
ESL (English as a Second Language) speakers: Newsprint Dialogue accommodating Single Word Sum-Ups
Exclusionary pecking order
Extroverts: Chalk Talk to equalize introverts and; Newsprint Dialogue and watching out for frustration of The Three-Person Rule and feeling silenced by Writing Discussion and frustration felt by
F
Facilitator Summary technique: description and purposes of how, when, and where it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Facilitators: Deliberative Polling and problem of bias by; disclosure by Dramatizing Discussion and untrained intervening in case of blatant errors intervening to stop people from interrupting Open-ended QuestionsParticipation Rubric preparing for Cocktail Party rewording or reframing questions stepping in to disallow inappropriate questions trust in the What Do You Think? on opinion of. See alsospecific technique
Fishkin, James
Foundational thinking
Foxfire Fund
Freire, Paulo
Frustration: Bohmian Dialogue and watching out for Circular Response and watching out for Clearness Committee and watching for Newsprint Dialogue and watching out for Open-ended Questions and watching out for Writing Discussion and watching out for
G
Gender differences (Appreciative Pause)
Getting out of their comfort zone: Chalk TalkClearness CommitteeCocktail PartyDramatizing DiscussionDrawing DiscussionJustifiable PressureMethodological BeliefMusicalizing DiscussionStand Where You StandToday’s Meet
Gimmicky problem (Conversational Moves)
Graeber, David
Group discussions: the bored and burned out reality of mandatory learning the protocols to energize and repurpose protocols to plan for spontaneity in variety of techniques used to spice up
Groupthink
H
Hatful of Quotes technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Hectoring (or blaming)
Horton, Myles
I
If You Could Only Ask One Questions technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Illiteracy: Quick Writes and issue of; Writing Discussion and issue of dyslexia, spelling difficulties, and
Independent judgments (What Do You Think?)
Interruptions: intervening to stop people from; Single Word Sum-Ups and problems with
Introverts: Chalk Talk to equalize extroverts and; Newsprint Dialogue preference by Single Word Sum-Ups providing safety for Writing Discussion and comfort by
J
Jigsaw technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Judgment: The Three-Person Rule to slow down rush to; What Do You Think? for independent
Just Mercy (Stevenson)
Justifiable Pressure technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
K
Kettering Foundation
L
Large groups: Bohmian DialogueOpen-ended QuestionsThe Three-Person RuleToday’s Meet. See also Building group cohesion; Small to large group transition
Law, Eric
Leadership walking the talk
Lee Mun Wah
Lindeman, Eduard
Lyman, F.
M
McKnight, K. S.
Melville, K.
Memory: Facilitator Summary and the problem of recollection and; Think-Pair-Share to aid recollection and
Methodological Belief technique: asking questions that ask us to practice description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Musicalizing Discussion technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Mutual Invitation technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions suited to this technique what to watch out for what users appreciate
N
Naake, Joan
Narrative Listening and Questioning technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
National Issues Forum (Melville, Willingham, & Dedrick)
New group techniques: Appreciative PauseChalk TalkCircle of VoicesParticipation RubricQuick WritesSetting Ground RulesSingle Word Sum-UpsThink-Pair-ShareThe Three-Person RuleToday’s Meet
Newsprint Dialogue technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions suited to what to watch out for what users appreciate
Nominating Questions technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for
Nonverbal discussions. See Discussions Without Speech techniques
O
Occupy Movement
On Dialogue (Bohm)
Online discussion boards
On-the-Spot Questions and Topics: definition and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol The three-person rule used with what to watch out for what users appreciate
Open-ended Questions techniques:
description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Organizational mistrust: Canvassing for Common GroundFacilitator SummaryToday’s Meet to overcome. See also Resistance; Trust
Organizational retreats: Newsprint DialogueParticipation RubricTitling the Text
Organizational settings: Canvassing for Common GroundIf You Could Only Ask One QuestionMusicalizing DiscussionOpen-ended QuestionsParticipatory Decision MakingRotating Stations
P
Palmer, Parker
Paraphrasing: facilitator rewording or reframing questions Understanding Check
Participation: Justifiable Pressure to drive list of techniques used to drive. See also Democratize participation techniques
Participation Rubric technique: critical thinking using the; description and purposes of how, where, and when this works wells questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Participatory Decision Making technique: an abridged version of; description and purposes of how it works questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate where and when it works well
Performance anxiety: Conversational Moves helping people with their Mutual Invitation and watching out for Newsprint Dialogue eliminating Today’s Meet eliminating
Physical movement: Newsprint DialogueSnowballingStand Where You Stand
Problem solving: Clearness CommitteeFacilitator SummaryStand Where You Stand
Professional development. See Staff/professional development workshops
Profundity
Program admissions (Participation Rubric)
Promoting good questions: Clearness CommitteeNarrative Listening and QuestioningNominating QuestionsOn-the-Spot Questions and TopicsOpen-ended QuestionsQuestion BrainstormStrategic QuestioningTeam ModelingWhat Do You Think?
Public shaming
Q
Question Brainstorm technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when this works wells questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Quick Writes technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when this works wells questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Quotes to Affirm and Challenge technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when this works wells questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
R
Relationship building. See Building group cohesion
Resistance: Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ) to manage participant’s justifiable Understanding Check. See also Organizational mistrust
Respectful listening: Circle of VoicesCircular ResponseClearness CommitteeMutual InvitationParticipatory Decision MakingWhat Are You Hearing?
Rotating Stations technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when this works wells questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Rothstein, D.
S
Santana, L.
Scaffolding (Hatful of Quotes)
Scruggs, M.
Second-round ground rule
See alsoAppreciative Pause
Setting Ground Rules technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol The Three-Person Rule applied to the what to watch out for What users appreciate
Silence: caution against embarrassing participants during; Clearness Committee and feeling awkward about the don’t make people feel pressured to break their Newsprint Dialogue use of Structured SilenceThe Three-Person Rule and awkward
Single Word Sum-Ups technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for What users appreciate
Small groups: Bohmian DialogueClearness CommitteeDramatizing DiscussionIf You Could Only ASk One QuestionsOpen-ended QuestionsQuestion BrainstormRotating Stations for debriefing work done by Setting Ground RulesSticky Note Plaudit for summaries by Today’s Meet for reports given by. See also Building group cohesion
Small to large group transition: Canvassing for Common GroundCritical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)Dramatizing DiscussionDrawing DiscussionMusicalizing DiscussionNewsprint DialogueNominating QuestionsRotating StationsSnowballingStand Where You Stand. See also Large groups
Smith, Hilton
Snowballing technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions suited to what to watch out for what users appreciate
Social media: Justifiable Pressure use of Today’s Meet and the digital divide
Social movements (If You Could Only Ask One Question)
Socrates café
Specificity: Appreciative Pause and lack of; Participation RubricRotating Stations and lack of user appreciation for Conversational Moves
Spelling difficulties
Staff/professional development workshops: Cocktail PartyFacilitator SummaryJigsawNewsprint Dialogue used during Open-ended Questions
Stand Where You Stand technique:
description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Start-up projects (Titling the Text)
Stevenson, Bryan
Sticky Note Plaudit technique: description and purposes of how it works questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate where and when it works well. See alsoAppreciative Pause technique
Storytellers: Critical Conversation Protocol definition of
Strategic Questioning technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Structured Silence technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Summarizing: Chalk Talk used for Snowballing and possibility of too much Sticky Note Plaudit to debrief small-group
T
Team facilitation
Team Modeling technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
The techniques: to energize and repurpose group discussions planning for spontaneity using using a variety to spice up discussions walking the talk through commitment to. See alsospecific technique
TED Talk (Bryon Stevenson)
Text-based discussions: Critical DebateDeliberative PollingHatful of QuotesIf You Could Only Ask One QuestionsJigsawQuestion BrainstormQuick WritesQuotes to Affirm and ChallengeStand Where You StandTitling the Text
Think-Pair-Share technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
The Three-Person Rule technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well On-the-Spot Questions and Topics used with questions suited to this activity Setting Ground Rules use of the what to watch out for what users appreciate
Titling the Text technique: description and purposes of; how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate
Today’s Meet technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions suited to what to watch out for what users appreciate
Town hall meetings (Quotes to Affirm and Challenge)
Training workshops. See Staff/professional development workshops
Trust: Critical Debate as requiring; in the facilitator
U
Understanding Check. See also Organizational mistrust
Unbridgeable positions Understanding Check technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works questions suited to this technique what to watch out for
V
Verbal word cloud
W
What Are You Hearing? technique:
description and purposes of how, where, and when it works questions suited to this technique what to watch out for
What Do You Think? technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works questions suited to this technique what to watch out for what users appreciate
Willingham, T.
Writing Discussion technique: description and purposes of how, where, and when it works well questions that fit this protocol what to watch out for what users appreciate