Use The Double Diamond To Protect Divergence Before Selection
Recognize whether a group needs divergence or convergence and choose activities accordingly.
Many messy meetings are really mode-confusion problems. Divergence is for opening the field In divergence, the facilitator wants breadth, multiple lenses, and ideas that are not yet polished. Judgment is deferred because early evaluation shrinks the option set before it is useful. Convergence is for making tradeoffs visible In convergence, the facilitator introduces criteria, comparison, prioritization, and commitment. This is where the group earns clarity by ruling things out. The transition must be explicit Rooms get stuck when some people are still expanding while others are already selecting. A clear sentence like 'We are done generating; now we will narrow…
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