Self-paced course

Cultivating Patterns

Group what your listening surfaced into patterns of thinking, and keep them alive across seasons and exhibitions.

Structure
5 parts · 37 lessons
Video
33 of 37 lessons

What you’ll be able to do

  • Build groups from the bottom up rather than sorting into categories you brought
  • Name a group by what holds it together, not by what it is about
  • Spot the group that is really two groups
  • Keep a picture of your audiences that each new round of listening sharpens

The lessons

Section 1: Focus of Mental Attention

  1. 1.1 Let Affinities Emerge (Where We Want to End Up)Includes video
  2. 1.2 Why Synthesis?Includes video
  3. 1.3 Understanding Affinities: Finding Patterns in Human ExperienceIncludes video
  4. 1.4 Focus of Mental AttentionIncludes video
  5. 1.5 What Is It Not?Includes video
  6. Section 1 Quiz

Section 2: Comparing Summaries and Avoiding Traps

  1. 2.1 Compare One Summary to AnotherIncludes video
  2. 2.2 Work From the Bottom UpIncludes video
  3. 2.3 Going a Little Bit FasterIncludes video
  4. 2.4 Trap: Common NounsIncludes video
  5. 2.5 Trap: SequenceIncludes video
  6. 2.6 Trap: Too Many MeaningsIncludes video
  7. 2.7 Getting Out of a TrapIncludes video
  8. Section 2 Quiz

Section 3: Groups, Labeling, Hierarchy

  1. 3.1 The Bubbling Mud PhaseIncludes video
  2. 3.2 Labeling GroupsIncludes video
  3. 3.3 An Opposite of the GroupIncludes video
  4. 3.4 Defining Group LevelsIncludes video
  5. 3.5 Grouping Groups: Building Mental Spaces from Research InsightsIncludes video
  6. 3.6 Just Keep BubblingIncludes video
  7. 3.7 Solo Summaries and Single Voice TowersIncludes video
  8. 3.8 Inflection Points in Pattern RecognitionIncludes video
  9. Section 3 Quiz

Section 4: Checking Your Work and Creating the Diagram

  1. 4.1 Neighborhoods Or NotIncludes video
  2. 4.2 When Is It Finished (Data Saturation)Includes video
  3. 4.3 Making The DiagramIncludes video
  4. 4.4 Pace Of WorkIncludes video
  5. 4.5 Working TogetherIncludes video
  6. 4.6 Speeding It Up: Maintaining Quality Under PressureIncludes video
  7. 4.7 Are Patterns Affected by the First Sets Chosen?Includes video
  8. 4.8 Can I Use Existing Data?Includes video
  9. 4.9 How Does This Fit With Academic Theory?Includes video
  10. Section 4 Quiz

Section 5: Demonstrations

  1. 5.1 DemoIncludes video
  2. 5.2 DemoIncludes video
  3. 5.3 DemoIncludes video
  4. 5.4 DemoIncludes video

Indi Young’s pattern-cultivation method.

Follows Concepts & Summaries.