Methods
Three 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 mostly 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
Carrying method
The practice of carrying knowledge between contexts without cutting it from its hands
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.