Mindopeners

The world is getting more complex. Simple jobs are taken over by digitisation. The necessary waterlevel of thinking complexity is rising, to get and hold a job in general, to lead in a "normal" organization and to especially to work in an SDO or another agile context.

But how can we prepare ourselves for this challenge? Often this cognitive growth happens "along the way", by learning from problems, learning from role models.
Very few approaches tackle cognitive growth directly. If at all rational thinking is played off against systemic or intuitive thinking. Not very helpful in our mind.

We developed an approach we call Mindopeners.

Mindopeners consists of two aspects:

1. Applications
2. Pattern Collections

Which applications do we offer:

• Solution Generation
  
  • Tackling a complex question / challenge, using special cognitive or other patterns as a catalyst
  • more info in this document
• Patterns of an organization
  • elicit patterns that are being successfully used in an organization (without being fully aware of it)
    info about how we elicit patterns here
  • selecting additional patterns from a pattern collection that all members should be able to use fluently
  • training patterns in a playful and productive way
  • integrating the implementation of patterns into the workflows of the organization
• Serious Game
  
  • for individual solution finding, for training and for bonding
  • max. of 5 participants
  • Picking a concrete challenge, using patterns to find solutions
  • more info in this document: 
  • We are offering offline (in Graz) and online groups - see below.

Worksheets that can be used in various applications:

• A4 Insight Sheet
• A3 Worksheet - introduce 12 patterns of your choice 
• link to the Google sheet template for the offline and an online worksheet - download to your Google Drive or as MS Excel and adapt to your needs

Which Pattern collections do we offer at the moment:

• Cognitive Patterns
  in 6 constitutive categories:
  • Rational
  • Dynamic
  • BiasAware
  • Constructivist
  • Systemic
  • Transformational
  • => download a pdf, to be printed twosided, to be cut into A7 cards
  • => download a pdf with an overview of the patterns
  • => install the prototype app with the Cognitive Patterns on your Android phone (you will be asked to install appsheet first - that´s ok)
  • => look at the prototype Mindopener app with the Cognitive Patterns in your browser
• Transformational Canvas
  a systemic model to understand transformation
  => the main document
  => A7 cards, to be printed on both sides and cut
  => overview of patterns
  => install the pototype app: https://www.appsheet.com/newshortcut/b2a5f432-f6e3-41a2-9ef8-4074ffa14a13 
  => look at the app in your browser: https://www.appsheet.com/start/b2a5f432-f6e3-41a2-9ef8-4074ffa14a13
• GAMMA - from Ludwig Kapfer´s GAMMA-Model
  patterns for Organizations, Networks and Projects
  => download A7 cards, to be printed on both sides and cut
  => download an overview of patterns
  => install as the prototype GAMMA app on your android phone (you will be asked to install appsheet first, that´s ok): the shortlink: https://bit.ly/2Mu1yDc
  => look at the prototype GAMMA app in your browser
  
  

We are planning to establish more Pattern Collections:

• socio-emotional patterns
• SDO patterns
• Creative Problem Solving for Kids

In the pipeline:

• We are experimenting with an app that shows the patterns.
• We are developing to use/play Mindopeners online.
• If you want to join the community of developers please contact us! You get access to the app and all material that is still in beta.