Last week's challenge explored how questions can be used to create and develop a shared state of inquiry. This week's challenge focuses on how to move from divergent to convergent thinking.
Convergent thinking is the result of collaborative evaluation.
Ultimately, making the shift from divergent to convergent thinking requires the development and facilitation of a comprehensive collaborative thinking process. As each person's position is identified and developed, summarize each idea, thought or feeling on post-its and randomly post each onto a dry erase board. Working from left to right, discuss each idea, thought or feeling in order to ensure both you and the other person have a solid understanding of each. With the other person, organize each post-it into idea or concept categories. The goal is to classify ideas by identifying relationships between them.