Grape People develops organisations through facilitation and participative practices. Within this work we use many group tools. The tools are not "tricks" - they are well thought out frameworks for enabling better dialogue and decision making in groups. Such frameworks help create and sustain global learning organisations.

• Appreciative Inquiry: a process for positive change
• Art based facilitation methods: sensitive ways to deal with emotional issues, handle tacit knowledge and creating understanding of new visions. Art offers variety of methods to support the different styles of learning, experimentation and prototyping. Read more: Grape Arte >
  
• Dynamic Facilitation: a meeting tool for creating understanding around complex situations. A perfect tool for clarifying and solving problems
• Facilitated Conversations: a series of socratic style questions for ensuring understanding and action.
  
• Force Field Analysis: to deal participatively with resistance to change
• Future Search Conferences: designed to define the preferred future state for a group of people  through finding common ground among the diverse participants
• Grape Cocktails: an active and dynamic dialogue method which can be used to create a shared reality and for simple warm ups
• Idealogue: generating options and developing ideas through revolving dialogues; particularly good for making visual action plans that hold.
• Intervention model: a tool for dealing with difficult situations and designing powerful group interventions
  
• Knowledge Café: an interactive method to reach tacit knowledge and shared understanding
• MeWeUs: a method to ensure complete participation; for medium level divergence, quick convergence and agreeing a shared understanding.
• Open Space Technology: based on the philosophy of self-organizing groups and designed for groups of 10-1000 participants
• Pathways to Action: for planning the stages of a group problem solving process
  
• Spark Plugs: an inspirational visual method to produce out-of-the-box ideas and get new perspectives through conversations; used typically at the beginning of an innovation processes
• World Café: an inclusive method for creating dialogue and understanding across larger groups

Our toolbox includes many fresh tools for beginning workshops and energizing groups and dozens of methods for generating and selecting ideas and a whole collection of ideation techniques based on art, drama and structured thinking.

If you want to learn to use these group tools yourself, you're welcome to attend one of our Facilitation Trainings >.