The Art of Hosting Questions to Action – Tools

Process Formats for Problem Solving Action and Development

In the course of the CADRA project, we used facilitation processes that allow for cognitive richness and mind opening questions. The three processes here were part of our basis for group facilitations. We especially used Action Learning and the pro action café sequences for the Leadership Learning Spaces, where leaders met in a peer learning setting.

We organised an online Action Learning training with members of the CADRA partner organisations, which was a contributing factor to their own individual development and to their practice as facilitators and coaches.

All three practices shared here are already present in the wider consulting and facilitation space. We are here emphasising their use for cognitive development beyond the application for problem solving and agreements for action.

Action Learning has been around since the 1940s. We find this developmental peer learning format very supportive for the cognitive development of the people practising it. Besides, it tends to bring about fresh solutions to rather unsolvable issues.

The pro action café is a structured developmental group process that instills fresh insights and cohesion for a larger peer learning space.

The wicked question game encourages people to ask each other questions that go deeper and address fundamental assumptions, opening minds for new perspectives.