What is this course?

This course is a half-semester elective, taught in the Carnegie Mellon School of Design but open to students from any…

7. How to plan a good group session

The details of planning and preparing for engagement and dialogue

Session Book

Experience, read, reflect

As you know, this class has two streams:

• Practice (mostly on Monday, usually making reference to the ideas)
• Ideas (mostly on Wednesday, often with a nod to practice)

1. Who’s here? How do we see the world? Why does this matter?

We start by listening.

3. Convening: listening and gathering

Including birds of all feathers

2. How systems and people shift

Seeing systems, groups, and people as living processes.

9. How to host a good group session

The stance and details of holding open creative space

11. Practicing creative work in uncertainty

Advancing together through the fog

13. Organizations as social systems

Most of the students in this class are likely to take jobs in companies and institutions after…

4. Conversation: the heart of “social”

“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.” - Jane Goodall