Skill

Both by design and by their intended ‘natures,’ squareONE’s tools range from bread-and-butter discovery tools to very precisely aimed dialogical tools.

Custom designs produce powerfully capable learning programs aimed to support the growth of self awareness, and, social awareness in teams. All such applications are by design advanced beyond conventional  assessment and training. The main focal points of squareONE’s capabilities in the professional and organizational development arenas are:  (1) building exploratory and discovery capacity, (2) increasing understanding about human system dynamics, (3) humanizing organizational awareness by deep diving into its human equation.

Discovery-oriented tools implicate broad opportunities for application in small groups or one-on-one. These fun and often amazing applications emphasize exploration, novelty, and playful interplay and integration of learning.

GO FISH
MOVING THE SHAPES
GRAB BAG
HUNTING & GATHERING
PLAYING OPPOSITES
APPROACH-A-TRON
PERSONAL MANDALA
GROUP MANDALA
CUBE-O-PROBE

Stephen Calhoun, experiential toolmaker

example: Cube-O-Probe roll – the basic four cube cross

Human Puzzle-based tools are narrowly focused on a small set of specific challenges in everyday self-awareness, deep leadership and personal development.

FOUR SQUARED & MATRIX DISCOVERY | social cybernetic analysis
CONTROL PANEL & FINE TUNING THE DIALS | self regulation
80/20, 20/80 & PARETO EFFICIENCIES IN SELF-DEVELOPMENT | effectiveness
TEACHING CARTOONS | contextualization & paradox
THE DESERT KOAN & EXPLORER’S BEGINNER’S MIND | constructive toolmaking

Dialogical Learning I. Its applications all are oriented to strengthening contextual and qualitative systems knowledge/self-awareness/social awareness.

REDUCED BATESON SET, APPLIED
CUSTOM DESIGNS

Dialogical Learning II. are employed in a specialized partnership between squareONE guide and learner; and these conversational applications are built for precise problem-solving or open-ended purposes focused on relational being and social cybernetics (interpersonal and intrapersonal sensemaking.

Custom-designed, dynamic partnerships focused on essential human dilemmas and aspirations