Resources
Best Practices & Guides

Common Ground Matrix
This activity allows everyone to share formative experiences and to find out what the “experiential templates” are for cooperation and teamwork.

Go-Arounds
Providing everyone with a voice in a meeting is most usefully achieved by doing a “go-around.” It ensures that everyone is an important contributor.

Guided Imagery
The most direct route to a team’s intuition is through everyone’s imagination. A guided-imagery session can draw out ideas quite rapidly.

Stringing of the Beads
This practice supports group members at the beginning of meetings to become aware of each person’s own inner state.

Team Performance Quick Start Guide
Learn why orientation is critical to team effectiveness and receive a best practice to start your team off on the right path.

Strategic Visioning Process Overview
This booklet walks you through the suite of tools that help you design and lead a Strategic Visioning process.

Sharing the Big Picture
This practice invites everyone to imagine the finished process in order to achieve results.
Book Excerpts

The Liminal Pathways Study Chapter 5: Patterns of Change
This free chapter from The Liminal Pathways Study is an initial exploration of several related terms and distinctions between types and drivers of change.

The Liminal Pathways Study Chapter 6: The Idea of the Liminal
This free excerpt from The Liminal Pathways Study explores how the idea of the liminal supports new ways of understanding and leading change.

Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change
In this free chapter, learn the inner-process dynamics and outer-process structures needed to realize long-term change.

Visual Leaders: New Tools for Visioning, Management & Organization Change
In this free chapter, learn about Grove Storymaps® and how change leaders can use storytelling to create engagement, alignment and commitment.

Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, & High Performance
In this free chapter, discover what is possible when teams use visualization and practical ways visualization can help teams get better results.

Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes & Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity
This free chapter provides a high-level overview of visual meetings, the different ways they can work for you, and how you can start successfully.

Theory of Process Booklet
This booklet includes a description of Arthur M. Young’s invention of the helicopter and a full description of the Theory of Process.