Methods
Two practices for collective inquiry, built on relationship, on emergence, and on what a group can work out together rather than what any expert hands down. I've drawn them from groups experimenting with alternatives to extractive and competitive learning, and I set them down here for anyone who wants to try them, and to make them their own.
Relational analysis method
The diagnostic practice: reading where knowledge comes from, who is centred, and what power decides credibility
Emergent dialogue method
The generative practice: tending a room so a group can think together and difference becomes fertile
Both are made to be adapted, held loosely rather than followed to the letter. Each leans towards what a group finds together rather than a fixed result, and towards relationship rather than extraction, and each can be reshaped to fit a different room, group, or purpose.
If you're working with relational approaches like these, or want to compare notes, reach out at hello@raw.space.
Learning happens in the spaces between us,
where curiosity meets care,
and questions create possibility.