Debrief
ORID Focused Conversation
Four levels of question that let quieter and louder voices arrive at a shared decision.
30 minutes · Any
Use this activity in the Studio →How to facilitate it
- Ask every level in order. Skipping Reflective makes decisions brittle.
- Invite feelings at R level without fixing them.
- At D level, name who does what by when.
Reflection prompts
- Objective: What did you see, hear or do?
- Reflective: Where was the high point or the low point? What surprised you?
- Interpretive: What does this mean for us? What insight is emerging?
- Decisional: What will we decide or do differently?
Credit & lineage
Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA); R. Brian Stanfield, editor of The Art of Focused Conversation.
Independent Playformation prompts following the Objective, Reflective, Interpretive and Decisional sequence. This is not a substitute for ICA training.
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