Facilitating Knowledge Processes
[Danish]

We do research and consult on new methods of learning and knowledge sharing between people face-to-face at conferences and in meetings, networks and organizations generally.

One important tool is facilitation, the art of helping a group of people accomplish what they want by guiding their process gently, but firmly.

Our four areas of interest:

• Conferences
• Meeting facilitation
• Knowledge sharing in networks
• Meaning in work life
  Read a short statement about them here.

Research and development projects:

• Meetings that create value and meaning: A new project where 50 managers from each partner organization will be trained in meeting facilitation. The effect on meetings will be measured.
• New conference formats: Ongoing Ph.D. project in collaboration with a handful of conference organizers.
• The learning meeting: We developed and applied some 20 techniques for involving participants at 30 conferences held at four venues by a handful of partner companies  
• More effective meetings: A project with five knowledge-intensive corporations - Nokia, Novozymes, Elsam/Nesa, BRFkredit and Jyske Bank. 

When can we help?

• You are organizing a conference and would like the participants to be more active.
• The meetings in your organization need to pick up.
• You are responsible for a professional network and you want to energize it
• You want more knowledge sharing in your organization.
• You want to learn how to facilitate. 
• You need a one- or two-hour presentation for your event.
• - Well, get in touch (see below).

Texts in English about our work:

• Creating Learning at Conferences Through Participant Involvement. Results from the project "The learning meeting."
• The Learning Conference. Introducing the concept, with sample learning techniques.
• Transformative Theory in Social Research: The Case of the Learning Conference. About the research methodology used: Creating a theory of better social insitutions and trying to bring them about in a systematic, experimental effort. 
• The Learning Meeting. A magazine article for the meeting professional.
• Meetings in Organizations: Do They Contribute to Stakeholder Value and Personal Meaning? Theory and results from the project "More effective meetings".
• 17 learning techniques for lectures. Help your students relate to your stuff.
• Action knowledge. How it is different from information and representational knowledge.

We are:

• Hanne Adriansen, Associate Professor
• Nicoline Jacoby Petersen, Doctoral Student
• Ib Ravn, Associate Professor
• Nina Tange, Consultant
• Steen Elsborg (affiliated)
• Malene Rix (affiliated)