Key principles for effective and engaging workshops

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Key principles for effective and engaging
workshops

• the Ketso approach to implementing them

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Engaging workshops 3 fundamentals

• Everyones Voice
• Shared Big Picture
• Effective ThinkingWare (workshop process)

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Engaging workshops 9 key principles

• Everyones Voice
• Give everyone the means to make an input
• Have a balance of individual and group time
• Have an activity for each key question or stage
• Shared Big Picture
• Provide a way to build ideas into a shared
  picture
• Make connections and look for patterns
• Use multi-sensory learning
• Effective ThinkingWare
• Start and end with the positive
• Develop solutions to problems
• Prioritise ideas and lead into action

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Ketso was launched as a social business in 2009
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Mission to provide tools for engaging people
worldwide to learn together develop creative
solutions
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Helping people run good workshops by selling
renting kits
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providing free open-source resources, e.g.
workshop plans, slideshows, how-to videos
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Creating job opportunities for disadvantaged
people in kit manufacture
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e.g. the kits are assembled in a sheltered
workshop in the UK
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How Ketso helps you implement the key principles
of engaging workshops
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Engaging workshops 3 fundamentals

• Everyones Voice
• Shared Big Picture
• Effective ThinkingWare (workshop process)

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Everyones Voice the Ketso approach

• Give everyone the means to make an input

• Give everyone a pen and leaves
• Keep checking that everyone has leaves!

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Everyones Voice the Ketso approach

• Give everyone the means to make an input
• Have a balance of individual and group time

• Give everyone a pen and leaves
• Keep checking that everyone has leaves!
• Think then share
• Give out the different coloured leaves in stages
  to re-set the process of think then share

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Everyones Voice the Ketso approach

• Have an activity for each key question or stage

• Active approaches engage more people, more of the
  time
• Think of each bit of kit and how you will use it
  for each stage (e.g. what will the colours stand
  for)
• Remember there are sample workshop plans and
  resources to help you with this!

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Engaging workshops 3 fundamentals

• Everyones Voice
• Shared Big Picture
• Effective ThinkingWare (workshop process)

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Shared Big Picture the Ketso approach

• Provide a way to build ideas into a shared picture

• Felt workspace captures ideas
• Branches give (some) structure

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Shared Big Picture the Ketso approach

• Build a shared picture
• Make connections and look for patterns

• Felt captures ideas
• Branches give (some) structure
• Move the leaves, develop clusters
• Look at how the colours group around the branches
  (e.g. where are the problem areas?)
• Use icons to prioritise and show links

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Shared Big Picture the Ketso approach

• Use multi-sensory learning

• Ketso is highly visual (e.g. coloured leaves)
• Ketso is very tactile ( hands on and moveable)
• Ketso provides opportunities for listening and
  speaking (aural)
• Participants also have quiet time to write or
  draw ideas (reflective)

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Engaging workshops 3 fundamentals

• Everyones Voice
• Shared Big Picture
• Effective ThinkingWare (workshop process)

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Effective ThinkingWare the Ketso approach

• Start and end with the positive

• Ask what is going well? What works? What assets
  have we got?
• Brown leaves - this is the soil we have to grow
  ideas in

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Effective ThinkingWare the Ketso approach

• Start and end with the positive

• Ask what is going well? What works? What assets
  have we got?
• Brown leaves - this is the soil we have to grow
  ideas in
• Always give some time to develop solutions to
  problems
• Grey rain clouds bring forth the shoots of new
  green leaves

• Develop solutions to problems

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Effective ThinkingWare the Ketso approach

• Prioritise ideas and lead into action

• Remember takeaway messages action points, what
  happens next?
• Develop an action plan on Ketso Planners or Grid
  use action cards

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Effective ThinkingWare the Ketso approach

• The colours guide you through a growth metaphor

• The yellow sun that drives growth (goals)
• Grey rain clouds get between us and the sun
  (challenges) bring rain
• Green shoots of new ideas (future possibilities)
• Brown soil, what we already have to grow our
  ideas in

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Each bit of the kit helps lead you through
running a good workshop
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Ketso extends your capacity as a facilitator
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Gives everyone a voice, increasing commitment
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Harnesses the creativity of people at all levels
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Makes productive use of peoples time
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As show in 2012 independent survey (Lancaster
University), 80 customers responded
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People with different languages and levels of
literacy can engage

• The Ketso is particularly useful for me to
  communicate with members. My English level is
  low It makes me difficult to actively
  participate group projects.
• Last semester I could not insist my opinion
• However, with the great tool covering many
  different kinds of group meetings I was able to
  clearly suggest my thought on a meeting.

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Ideas being heard

• In past experiences of group work, I have often
  taken a backseat in group discussion as other
  more outspoken characters tend to hold the
  discussion. Using Ketso, it is also possible to
  set aside individual thinking time and sharing
  time...
• I enjoyed Ketso as I felt it gave everyone a
  higher sense of equality.

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Engaging workshops the theory

• Everyones Voice
• Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich
• Robert Chambers - Participatory Rapid Appraisal
• Edward de Bono - trains of thought
  brainstorming
• David Kolb and Donald Schon - activity-led
  learning
• Shared Big Picture
• Tony Buzan - Mind Mapping
• Howard Gardner multiple intelligences
• Fritjof Capra, Peter Checkland, Maturana
  Varela Systems Thinking
• Alan Savory Holistic Resource Management
• Effective ThinkingWare
• Edward de Bono different modes of thinking
• George Lakoff - metaphors
• Geoffrey Vickers - appreciative inquiry
• Caroline Moeser, John McKnight Jody Kretzmann
  asset-based dev.

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