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Exchanging Perspectives
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.
- 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
Instructions
- Where
- transitionmakers.nl/tool/exchanging-perspectives — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
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Origin
Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA), crediting Liberating Structures; team adaptation by Thomas Jordan — Perspective-exchange practice
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