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Perspective contrast exercises
To sharpen awareness of how different perspectives frame the same issue. When facing a dilemma with different legitimate perspectives, assign small groups to deliberately adopt and articulate different positions. Each group prepares not just arguments but the underlying… An ongoing team scaffold (group exercise), run for significant dilemmas, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 45-60 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, perspective-taking, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (For significant dilemmas)
Origin & where it lives
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Frame as learning, not debate. The goal is to understand each perspective deeply enough to learn from it. Model genuine curiosity about different perspectives.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25