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Discovery & Action Dialogue (DAD)
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
A facilitated dialogue built on positive deviance: through seven fixed questions, a group discovers who among them is already solving a chronic problem against the odds, what they do differently, and what the group will now try. Solutions come from insiders who face the same constraints — not imported best practice.
Hold with care
- Chronic problems carry blame histories; the questions work only while the tone stays genuinely curious, never auditing
Practical
- Time
- 35-80 min
- Group
- 2–∞ · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Groups of 5–7; the seven questions displayed
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, systems-sensing, behavioral-rehearsal
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/discovery-and-action-dialogue — Liberating Structures, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
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Origin
Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless — Liberating Structures; grounded in Positive Deviance (Jerry & Monique Sternin)
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status: checked · added 2026-08-25