Introduction. Today we live in a reality called the BANI world, that is the world which is brittle, anxious, nonlinear and incomprehensible. We believe that many tools and techniques for working with people and teams need to be rethought and adapted to the new environment. We consider it is necessary to clarify the unique potential of Russian facilitation, revealed and enriched by the centuries-old experience reflected in the Russian culture. The goal of the article is to describe an original technique of using Russian fairy tales in group (team) facilitation. The hypothesis of the research is that work with adults and teams using structural and semantic elements of Russian magic fairy tales let access powerful resources of national cultural roots embedded in the collective unconscious and archetypal structures of a person’s psyche. Using fairy tales as a social and communicative technique can contribute to solving up-to-date issues within companies as well as personal paradigm of the team sessions participants. Methodology of the research is based on the study of the world-famous Russian philologist and cultural studies scholar Vladimir Propp, devoted to the analysis of Russian fairy tales, as well as on a set of methodological solutions of a number of authors on facilitation. As a result of our research we found out that working with fairy tales helps reveal and bring to life unique contexts, positioning of individuals and teams, a new system of relations and interconnections in a company. Fairy tale, existing in the “the impossible is possible” paradigm, allows a team to turn on imagination during facilitation sessions, design a miracle, find a nonlinear approach to the solution of business problems. In the practical part, three methodical approaches to work with fairy tales in facilitation are presented: “The Hero's Fairy Tale Trail”, “The Fairy Tale: Actors”, and “Spontaneous Fairy Tale”, which have been successfully tried out in pilot groups. Each of the techniques is provided with the usage algorithm, brief results of field practice and the perspectives of the method. In conclusion, fairy tale, as a method of facilitation, is able to provide psychological, emotional, cognitive support in conditions when common arguments and guidelines for understanding and making decisions are complicated.
Introduction. Today we live in a reality called the BANI world, that is the world which is brittle, anxious, nonlinear and incomprehensible. We believe that many tools and techniques for working with people and teams need to be rethought and adapted to the new environment. We consider it is necessary to clarify the unique potential of Russian facilitation, revealed and enriched by the centuries-old experience reflected in the Russian culture. The goal of the article is to describe an original technique of using Russian fairy tales in group (team) facilitation. The hypothesis of the research is that work with adults and teams using structural and semantic elements of Russian magic fairy tales let access powerful resources of national cultural roots embedded in the collective unconscious and archetypal structures of a person’s psyche. Using fairy tales as a social and communicative technique can contribute to solving up-to-date issues within companies as well as personal paradigm of the team sessions participants. Methodology of the research is based on the study of the world-famous Russian philologist and cultural studies scholar Vladimir Propp, devoted to the analysis of Russian fairy tales, as well as on a set of methodological solutions of a number of authors on facilitation. As a result of our research we found out that working with fairy tales helps reveal and bring to life unique contexts, positioning of individuals and teams, a new system of relations and interconnections in a company. Fairy tale, existing in the “the impossible is possible” paradigm, allows a team to turn on imagination during facilitation sessions, design a miracle, find a nonlinear approach to the solution of business problems. In the practical part, three methodical approaches to work with fairy tales in facilitation are presented: “The Hero's Fairy Tale Trail”, “The Fairy Tale: Actors”, and “Spontaneous Fairy Tale”, which have been successfully tried out in pilot groups. Each of the techniques is provided with the usage algorithm, brief results of field practice and the perspectives of the method. In conclusion, fairy tale, as a method of facilitation, is able to provide psychological, emotional, cognitive support in conditions when common arguments and guidelines for understanding and making decisions are complicated.