exercise · all tools
Exchanging Perspectives
Openness and Learning MindsetPerspective SkillsInclusive Mindset and Intercultural CompetenceHumility
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Structured rounds — inspired by Liberating Structures' Troika Consulting — in which participants voice and inhabit each other's perspectives on a complex or contested challenge, reducing bias and blind spots by making the other position something you have spoken, not just heard.
Hold with care
- Jordan's team version rates this ★★★ (established trust) for divisive issues — trust requirement tracks the heat of the topic chosen
Practical
- Time
- 75-120 min
- Group
- 3–30 · triads, small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond seating in threes
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Origin & where it lives
Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA), crediting Liberating Structures; team adaptation by Thomas Jordan — Perspective-exchange practice
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox · Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Related: troika consulting (variant-of) · widening circles (pairs-with)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25