Historical Scan
A key method for Certified ToP (Technology of Participation) Facilitators
Launch new beginnings with any group by bringing closure on the past and helping the group create its own empowering story that becomes part of its history. Prepare for long range or strategic planning and evaluate projects together by learning from the past. Engage everyone in safe dialogue and a great visual experience. This method has the capacity to turn fate into a meaningful destiny.
The Historical Scan (also known as the Journey Wall or the Wall of Wonder) is required method to become an ICA Certified ToP Facilitator (CTF). It is also taught in the Transformational Strategy course and in the Art & Science of Participation.
Learn online at your own pace with classroom videos, personal assignments and downloadable texts and examples.
Theory
The manual is downloadable in this self-directed course.
Theory is expanded through readings from two books and videos of classroom lectures and interaction during in-person courses. These videos remain available for a year.
Demonstration
There are videos of instructors and participants using the tools in real and simulated case studies. This demonstrates best practice use of the tools and methods. These videos remain available for a year.
Stages, steps and procedures are explained in detail.
Application
This self directed course includes examples of products from actual clients as pictures, PDFs and powerpoints, so you know what can be achieved. These are downloadable.
Practice
The course includes assignments that help build confidence in your use of the method. Assignments can be done by yourself, but are better with a group you convene on your own for enhanced learning.
Your assignments can be uploaded to receive comments from ICA instructors or facilitators. You can contact them for further explanation.
Benefits
Bring closure to the past for communities and groups
- Facilitate full appreciative reflection on ALL things, joyful and traumatic
- Discern turning points for the group, when things began to shift
- Involve all parties, including diverse groups and ages
Build a common story that empowers with meaning
- Generational reflection encompassing decades or centuries
- Build respect for all effort
- Create a story as a foundations to launch new initiatives
- Enable healing between factions and groups
Prepare for all types of planning
- Discern trends that are forcing change
- Generate learning to carry forward
- Set the groundwork for visioning and future orientation.
- Excellent for evaluation and mid-course correction.
- Those who need to bring new people up to speed with those with long standing perpectives and efforts.
- Those who must help create a joint story for parties in conflict.
- Consultants and leaders who are preparing to do important planning initiatives and have to get everyone on the same page.
- Executives trying to build a common story for cultural transformation.
- Anyone who wants to be assessed as an ICA Certified ToP Facilitator (CTF)
The Historical Scan uses the ORID thought process to get a group to create its own story together.
- Use of ORID
- Visual spatial intelligence
- Metaphoric thinking
- Analytical thinking
