ORID Focused Conversation
- Form teams of 2 - 3
- Step 1: One team member presents work to their teammates.
- Step 2: Non-presenting members ask questions about the work from the ORID grid and record the presenting members responses.
- Step 3: Non-presenting members finish notes and give them to the presenting member.
- Continue until each team member has presented their work.
ORID Grid
ORID Grid
1. Objective: Facts, Data, Senses
1. Objective: Facts, Data, Senses
Objective questions related to thought, sight, hearing, touch, and smell are used to draw out observable data about the experience.
Examples:
- What images or scenes do you recall?
- Which people, comments, ideas, or words caught your attention, and why?
- What sounds do you recall?
- What tactile sensations do you recall?
3. Interpretive: So What?
3. Interpretive: So What?
Interpretive questions relate to the experience’s value, meaning, or significance.
Examples:
- What was your key insight?
- What was the most meaningful aspect of this activity?
- What can you conclude from this experience?
- What have you learned from this experience?
- How does this relate to any theories, models and/or other concepts?
2. Reflective: Feelings & Reactions
2. Reflective: Feelings & Reactions
Reflective questions relate to the affective domain - emotional responses, moods, and hunches.
Examples:
- How did this experience affect you?
- What was the high point?
- What was the low point?
- What was the collective mood of the group involved?
- How did the group react?
- What were your feelings during the experience?
4. Decision: Now What?
4. Decision: Now What?
Decision questions relate to determining future resolutions and/or actions.
Examples:
- How, if at all, has this experience changed your thinking?
- What was the significance of this experience to your study/work/life?
- What will you do differently as a result of the experience?
- What would you say about the experience to people who were not there?
- What would it take to help you apply what you learned?
Based on work by Christine Hogan - Practical facilitation : a toolkit of techniques