Module 2: Discover
Complete this individually before gathering with your team. The purpose of this exercise is to help you move from an assumption toward a possible learning prototype. You are not committing your organization to an experiment. You are developing a proposal your team can consider together.
What Do We Need to Learn?
Return to the preferred future you began imagining in the Dream phase.
What is one question you need to explore before you can move confidently toward that future?
What do you need to understand that you cannot learn through discussion alone?
Our learning question is…
What Do We Currently Believe?
Based on what you know today, what do you believe might be true about this question?
Complete the sentence:
I believe that...
What Prototype Could Help Us Learn?
Imagine a small, focused action that could help your team explore this assumption in the real world.
What could you try?
Who would need to be involved?
What would make the prototype small enough to manage but meaningful enough to teach you something?
What Would We Pay Attention To?
If your team chose to run this prototype, what would you want to notice?
What responses, behaviors, stories, or outcomes could help you understand what is happening?
What might confirm your assumption?
What might challenge it?
What Could We Learn?
Imagine the prototype has been completed.
What are the most important questions your team would need to ask afterward?
What would you hope to understand that you do not understand today?
Bring your completed Learning Prototype Canvas to your team conversation. You’ll share your proposed prototype and discern together what your team may want to try.