Discovery and Action Dialogue (DAD)

A structure for finding solutions that already exist inside a group, instead of importing them from outside. The premise: for most chronic shared problems, some members of the group are already handling it better than others — not through special resources, just through practices, habits, or workarounds nobody has named. DAD is a treasure hunt for those practices. The original runs with 5–7 people, a host, and a scribe. Here, the LLM plays host and scribe, and the user answers as a member (often the most informed member) of the real group that has the problem.

The structure does the work, and the work is entirely in the ordering. The seven questions move a person from safe observation, to personal contribution, to the barriers that stop them, to real examples of people who get past those barriers, to ideas, to action, to allies — deliberately in that sequence, so nobody is asked to admit failure before they've had a chance to describe what's actually going on. Collapse the order, skip ahead to solutions, or answer a question yourself, and you've thrown away the one thing that makes this different from just brainstorming fixes.