Workshop Process

Notwithstanding any initial impressions to the contrary, everyone has insight (wisdom) and we need everyone's insight for the wisest result.
There is insight in every response. (There are no wrong answers.)
We know more than we are, at first, prepared or able to acknowledge.
When a person is heard, they can better hear others and hear themselves. This causes us to examine decisions made in advance about what the other people are like, what they are and are not capable of.
The step-by-step workshop process thus aims to keep us listening actively to each other, foster mutual respect, and elicit more of our insight.
Your initial conclusions may change -- be open for surprises.
What we come out with is very likely to be larger and more durable than what any one person came in with; the more so, the more voices that are brought out by the process.
In particular, we will be engaged in carrying out/carrying on the plans we develop.
In sum, the workshop process aims for the "greatest input, with greatest commitment and the least confusion, in the least time."
The basic structure of ICA workshop processes is to move through four phases -- objective, reflective, interpretive, decisional. This is best represented in a "focused conversation" (Spencer 1989, Stanfield 1997).