Tetras | Methodology

OUR METHODOLOGY

We use experiential techniques that facilitate participation and self-organization and enable the development of shared meaning and the emergence of new solutions, via the collection and process of raw narrative material.
The methodology we follow is based on some simple principles:

Each case is different, so through specialized techniques we let our clients’ people to lead us to the right choices, compatible to their own demands and their deeper characteristics.
We provide our services more like facilitators, working along with our clients, rather than ordinary consultants, deciding on behalf of them, even where we dispose proven expertise.
We aim to make the results of our work understood and acceptable by the organizations we work with, so they could finally be incorporated in their practice.
Having adopted the open source philosophy, we dispose the techniques and tools we develop and evolve within the communities we participate.

Starting with an initial circle of interviews and conversation with the leading team of the organization, we agree the general frame, direction and goals of the project.
We collect stories and other unstructured material from members of the organization or community, which will help discover the real and total picture of the system
Through a series of experiential workshops the participants process, interpret, and re-synthesize their own material, penetrating the hard shell of their stereotypes and discovering their common archetypes that energize them.
After the emerged clues become conscious, within another workshop the protagonists create their shared vision, assess their maturity for change, design their own solution, and bind themselves for its application.
During the application phase (usually of 2-4 months), the contextual material created before will be available to the whole system, also used as source for insights.
Finally, every 4-6 months, we can similarly evaluate the results of the initial set targets and perhaps re-specify the route.