Our Session
Facilitation Goals | Facilitation Plan
How can we intricately weave connections with others, fostering meaningful relationships, to purposefully extend our reach and ignite a ripple of positive impact?
North Star
To create a space to exchange unique and diverse perspectives to collectively inspire new thinking that will pave the way forward value driven progress.
Our Goals
Unite various stakeholders associated with consultancies, fostering connections between those with experience and those aspiring to collaborate.
Encourage participants to articulate their individual values, laying the groundwork for a shared understanding.
Foster exploration into individual agency and, specifically, the distinctive role of the strategic designer within the consultancy context.
Delve into the process of expanding internal company values beyond organizational boundaries, with a focus on aligning with external stakeholders like clients, partners, and collaborators.
Participate in a collaborative brainstorming session to generate ideas for potential interventions or restructuring aimed at cultivating more meaningful collaborations.
Participants
We've extended invitations to faculty members, leaders from the external engagement studio, lab leaders, professionals with experience in the consultancy industry, and students who share a keen interest in the topic.
Frameworks and Tools
The Partnership Canvas | Appreciative Inquiry | Breakout Groups
Supporting Documents
Facilitator Roles
Primary Facilitators - Alejandra and Annette
Supporting Facilitators - Ashthon and Poorna
Session Details
When: Friday, December 8th, 2023
Where: The New School Campus
Time: 3.00 - 4.00pm
Our Plan
Agenda
Introduction and Check In
Objective To initiate active participation from each participant and showcase their individual values to establish the foundational tone for the ensuing workshop.
Prompt Visually represent your personal values through a creative drawing activity to break beyond superficial conversation; share what it represents and why it’s meaningful to you.
(15 minutes)
Exercise 1
Objective To pinpoint the values you desire in a partner, collaborator, or client, as well as articulate the values you bring to the collaboration.
Prompt In groups of 3, fill the bottom two triangles on your Partnership Canvas.
What value is offered to your client/partner to support your mission?
What value is sought for in a client/partner to support your mission?
(10 minutes)
Our Mission
Present our brief and mission, clarifying to participants the significance of their involvement in our session. “We're on a mission to reimagine consoultancies – humanizing progress to co-design structures that will foster more meaningful outreach strategies .”
(5 minutes)
Exercise 2
Objective To generate ideas for potential interventions or restructuring aimed at cultivating more meaningful collaborations.
Prompt In your group, using Appreciative Inquiry, fill the middle triangle of your Partnership Canvas.
How will we collaborate to connect and transfer value with our partners? What structures need to be in place to facilitate the value exchange? Consider -
Hierarchical structures
Client onboarding processes
Employee culture (day-to-day practices)
(15 minutes)
Check Out
Objective To employ the "Created Value" prompt to rephrase concrete solutions into intangible outcomes.
Prompt Fill the top triangle of your Partnership Canvas. Do this individually and share.
What value would these collaborations bring?
What could be our created value from this facilitation?
Acknowledging structural changes that need to be made
(10 minutes)
Wrap Up
Summary and questions/feedback session. Thank you and wrap up.
(5 minutes)
Potential Outcomes
To collectively, as a community, decide during the wrap up of our session the desired deliverable out of this session.
Our aim is to take on an open-ended approach to our deliverable, acknowledging our time limitations as we head to the end of the project scope. By embracing ‘being in the grey,’ we are seeking to leave the door open for future actions and developments.