These are processes that engage people from all aspects of a system - organisation or community, by growing people's capacity (inside-out energy) in agiven environment (outside-in energy). What emerges is something important individually and collectively.

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FUTURE SEARCH
Creates a shared vision of the future. You involve all stakeholders in the search for common ground by linking different perspectives on past, present and future.

OPEN SPACE
Aids discussion and explore complex issues in a large group, organisation or community. The people who attend create the agenda, allowing action to form around the most important topics.

REAL TIME STRATEGIC CHANGE
Creates a preferred future that must link closely to real time action planning. It is highly structured and uses a common database, combining small groups and whole community mechanisms.

CONFERENCE MODEL
Composed of five small conferences to explore vision, customers, technical issues, design and implementation. Data Assist Teams work between conferences to engage the whole organisation and obtain feedback from all sections of the organisation or community.

SEARCH CONFERENCE
Creates a future vision starting with an environmental scan of things that could impact on the 'system in focus'. Participants seek consensus as they search for common ground and create a joint action plan.

PARTICIPATIVE DESIGN
Ensures a bottom-up change process which starts with an organisation wide education programme. Management sets minmum controls, thereby allowing each sub-group to co-ordinate its own work.
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SIMU-REAL GROUPS
Allows real-time work on current issues, the testing of future designs and to learn about the system. The whole group works on preselected issues with people acting in their organisation roles. The decision-making process is agreed in advance.

WORK-OUT INTERVENTIONS
Focuses on problem identification and process improvement. The session brings together employees from all functions to look for ways of changing the way they work to meet a selected target. They discuss and recommend process improvements to Change Champions to lead implementation activity.