exercise · all tools
Sensemaking Session
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★★established
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Complex sustainability challenges resist simple analysis. Sensemaking helps teams work together to create shared understanding of ambiguous situations, building the collective intelligence needed for wise action. When to use: When the team faces complex, ambiguous sustainability challenges, when different people see the situation very differently, when decisions feel confusing.
Practical
- Time
- 75-90 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, systems-sensing, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Origin & where it lives
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (Manager's Toolbox) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
status: checked · added 2026-08-25