animate arts
The Alternative Think Tank
is your team ‘thinking around in circles’ and not getting anywhere with a complex issue?
invest in a fresh approach...
Imagine a creative exploration where you tap into the latent unconscious wisdom of your team. Getting in touch with their collective felt sense of the issue and generating new perspectives that feel authentic. Picture yourselves arriving at the core of the issue together as you let your intellect take a back seat and move from solution thinking to solution sensing. A playful, creative approach will help your team explore possibilities that feel right without you having to know why at first. Towards the end of the day we will move into a phase of sense making and documenting what we have learned.
give your team
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a fresh perspective on a complex problem or issue
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a method to tap the latent wisdom of the group
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guidance to make sense of what emerges
think tank options
two day
$8,750
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2 x six hour sessions
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interactive practices designed to access unconscious and collective knowledge
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group and individual exercises
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harvest of ideas generated
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brainstorming actionable outcomes from ideas generated
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assess and build on what happened in the field in a second day after actioning your ideas
working methods
These workshops combine techniques of InterPlay, Goethen Observation and meditative/visualisation practices.
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InterPlay uses movement, voice, story, stillness and connection with others to tap into what might otherwise remain unconscious knowledge. It gives us access to a rich database of information acquired through our lived experience and to our felt sense of a situation or problem.
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Goethen observation involves toggling form what we observe and how we are remembering it - it helps us stay connected to what is really happening.
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Meditative practice can help us to notice what is happening in our own bodies as we work through an issue and visualisation can help us explore different potentials.
There will be individual, partner and group exercises, giving you a chance to both explore your personal wisdom and collaboratively build a picture of your issue or problem. In the last phase of your session we will move into reflective and harvesting mode. Sophia will draw on her 10 years experience engaging communities in design and decision making processes to assist you in collaboratively compiling and documenting your insights. She uses methods such as the ‘affinity diagram’ and those of the ‘art of hosting’ community.
what's included
Prices include:
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think tank for up to 16 participants (extra participants: $100pp half day, $190pp full day, $350pp two day)
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digital photos of the raw harvest of the day delivered after the event (if requested, you may also choose to take the raw harvest with you)
Optional extra: ($600 half day, $720 full day, $1350 two day)
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typed copy of harvest from the day
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thematic analysis of harvested information
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all compiled into a concise report
Prices do not include:
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venue hire (can be done on location at your workplace – space preferred is 5sqm pp, minimum 3.5sqm pp. *Online option also possible)
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catering, should you want any
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travel costs if the event is held outside of Adelaide metropolitan area
If you are a smaller organisation or a not-for-profit and this price is beyond your reach, please contact Sophia to discuss possibilities in your case.