Resource Library

H3Uni's Open Access Library of Transformative Methods for Regenerative Futures Work hosted by Future Stewards

Welcome to the H3Uni Resource Library. Whatever your interest in transformation and your particular field of operation, this Resource Library is relevant to increasing your effectiveness and that of those with whom you work. The methods here will help you to transcend limitations and release untapped potential. They are intended to grow a commons of shared practice, where the more widely they are shared, the more effective they will become, so please use and share whenever you can.

How to use the resource section

The Resource library is organised a bit like a recipe book. The main content that you will use is organised into methods, each with a corresponding Facilitation Guide, which are like recipes. Each H3Uni method is designed to support a particular team thinking task and the Facilitation Guide gives you instructions in the role of facilitator of the process.

These Facilitation Guides are intended for you to prepare a specific event, and to use 'on the go' in a live session. However, to be an effective facilitator you need to understand what it is you are doing and develop your skills. So you will find for each method there is also a Tutorial that explains how the Method works. Study the appropriate Tutorial before using the Facilitation Guide.

In addition to the Tutorials there are also a set of Exercises in the underpinning thinking that you need to be able to bring in to inform the group thinking and adapt the method to particular situations. Like basic cooking skills, you need mastery of these if you want to be ready for any situation.

Where to start?

H3Uni Practice Framework

If you are new to using these resources this tutorial will get you oriented to what we mean by an H3Uni method and how to use all the resources.

Visual Facilitation

All the H3Uni methods rely on a foundational skill of visual facilitation. You need to be thoroughly familiar with this material before using any of the methods to get the full value out of them.

H3Uni Core Methods

H3Uni methods all work together and support each other. There are five that are foundational to all the others. We recommend that you practice these first. Each of them can be used on its own for many situations, and then can be built upon and enriched by the others and with the use of the Additional Methods.

Three Horizons

For futures thinking

Tutorial Facilitation Guide

Augmentation Tools:

• Multi-Actor Mapping

• Action Planning

Hexagon Clustering

For complexity mapping

Tutorial Facilitation Guide

Dilemma Navigation

For transforming polarities

Tutorial Facilitation Guide

Wheel Of Wisdom

For shared multi-perspective decision making

Tutorial Facilitation Guide

World Mandala

For human-planetary ecosystem understanding

Tutorial Facilitation Guide

Additional methods

Here you will find a growing body of systems and futures tools which supplement the core methods. The field of futures and systems practice is huge, and our intent here is to provide a powerful set of methods, where that each one is carefully designed to fit in with all the others and will cover most of the situations you will encounter until you are ready to invent your own as an advanced practitioner.

Coming soon will be more material on Navigational Scenarios to enhance the Dilemma Navigation method, and provide further powerful approaches to handling uncertainty.

Scoping

What is Within Scope?

Tutorial Facilitation Guide

Exercises: Underpinning Thinking

Mastery of the methods requires a commitment to continued reflective practice. Here are practices that we recommend to deepen your understanding and skill in the methods, and to give you more ways to adapt them to specific situations.

Reflection

Becoming Aware of Your Thoughts

Holism with Focus

The Role of Structures & Flows

Ecosystem Thinking

Understanding Your Relationships

Concept Mapping (Holistic Thinking)

Seeing the Big Picture

Causal Loops

Understanding Feedback

Value Constellations

Map the Value Creation

Generative Thinking

Evoking New Ideas

Lateral Thinking

Random Ideas Can Help

Evaluative Thinking

Making Judgements

Dilemma Resolution

Reconciling Conflicting Values

Scoping

What is Within Scope?