Testimonials

Comments of a group of 'Knowledge Managers' who participated in a 'Knowledge Café' in the boardroom of Ernst and Young in Sydney in Dec 2000

" I am your typical techno cynic. I am so hungry for this kind of communication."

"At these forums we usually sit in rows looking at a speaker. This is the first time that we turned around to look at each other."

"This was a tremendous experience."

Knowledge management people, meeting in the board room of Ernst and Young in Sydney 2000

 

Registrant at national aged care conference

"At the Collective Wisdom Café at the conference, there were people from five different states sitting at our table. We quickly established that we were all facing very similar challenges and that our approaches to tackling them were quite different. What a lovely revelation and what learning!”                                                                               Registrant at national aged care conference

 "Thank you very much for introducing me and the staff who attended to the concept of the knowledge cafe. We are to use this concept to involve our customers and staff in identifying the possible futures for public libraries. More than this though I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to be involved and share with other staff in a non confronting, non status, friendly and open environment."
                                                                Librarian, Local Government

"Initially I found sitting at the small tables quite confronting. But then I greatly enjoyed talking in depth with nine people whom I had never met before. Ours is a people profession and this way of engaging with each other is brilliant."
                                          Delegate at conference of financial planners

Comments from participants in gatherings which we have facilitated

"Thank you so much for sharing the World Cafe process with us. Although we have conversation with people everyday and have coffee with someone in cafe all the time, but the wisdom that you had shown us was never occurred to me before. I think people slowly losing the ability of connecting with others these days, either they have no time for others or they prefer to connect through computer or phone. With your World Cafe process, it help us to break a lot of ice and trigger some chemical reaction in our mind. Really a mind opening experience. Thanks !!!"
                                                                                             Cheers, Wai Wai

 

"Initially I found sitting at the small tables quite confronting. But then I greatly enjoyed talking in depth with nine people whom I had never met before. Ours is a people profession and this way of engaging with each other is brilliant."
                                       Delegate at conference of financial planners

World Café

See  http://www.theworldcafe.com

This is a conversational process based on a set of integrated design principles that reveal a deeper living network pattern through which we co-evolve our collective future. Read more here

For a taster see stories and photos 

One of these stories is about how we conducted a very successful community consultation.  

 

 


 

 

Open Space Technology

For an overview see Open Space Technology 

And great stories. 

This is a very powerful and yet simple way to run productive meetings, for five to 2000+ people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization, in everyday practice and extraordinary change. Read here about how MultiMind Solutions uses this remarkable conversational process.

Alan Stewart will be attending the annual gathering of open space practitioners in San Francisco in late July 2008.

Welcome to MultiMind Solutions

 

Are there ideas for being more creative and innovative in your organisation which are not being expressed or acted on by your people?

If they were, could this make a substantial difference to how you are faring in this turbulent age?

As our name suggests, this is precisely what we can do with and for you.

We work with organizations to bring forth the collective wisdom of their people when addressing complex matters.

We do this with group conversational process, particularly Open Space Technology  (OST) and the World Café (TWC).

These are tried and tested ways to handle complex issues effectively and efficiently.  And to establish a culture of conversing in your organisation, the foundation of effectiveness and profitability.

See:  The Conversing Company: its culture, its power and its potential

and

Conversing Matters

We have also created a way to hold social gatherings in public places under the light touch’ guidance of a host. This is an idea aching to be born and it happened to ‘pop out’ in Hong Kong. See Conversare.

We are based in Hong Kong and operate here and throughout Australasia.

Here you can find what we do to promote participation and collaboration through conversation. And here for more information on the powerful conversational processes which we bring to enable you and your people to tackle vital issues successfully.  

For the significance of our logo see here