Knowledge base

The knowledge base is Soma’s curated source material for organizational development. Soma searches it when a question benefits from research, a framework, or a concrete facilitation practice.

It complements your own context. Memory and pages describe your situation; the knowledge base supplies concepts and practices that can help you work with it.

What it covers

The collection focuses on:

leadership and leadership development
organizational health and culture
team dynamics, trust, conflict, and accountability
transformation and change
personal development
innovation and creativity
communication and influence
psychological safety, belonging, and vulnerability
purpose, values, and strategic clarity

It is a specialist collection rather than a general encyclopedia.

How Soma uses it

When a conversation calls for grounding, Soma can search for relevant passages and use the source information returned with them. A Searching the knowledge base activity appears in chat when this happens.

You can ask for a broad orientation or a focused application:

“Map the main ways teams build psychological safety.”
“What would a systems-thinking lens notice in this conflict?”
“Give me three approaches to opening this workshop and explain the trade-offs.”

If you want a specific author, model, or topic considered, name it in your prompt. If the collection does not cover it, Soma should work from the context available rather than imply that a source was found.

Workshop activities

The knowledge layer includes a library of ready-to-run facilitation activities. Soma can filter recommendations by:

available time
group size
in-person or online format
the purpose of the moment

An activity appears in chat as a card with its duration, suitable group size, format, when to use it, and step-by-step instructions.

Ask with real constraints. For example: “I need a 15-minute online activity for 12 people that helps surface concerns before a decision.”

Coaching moves

Soma also has a catalogue of thinking techniques from systems thinking, lateral thinking, design thinking, TRIZ, and metacognition.

These are used inside the conversation when a shift in perspective would help: challenging a default option, exposing an assumption, considering a reversal, or testing a decision. Soma may name the technique when the name itself is useful, but the aim is to improve the thinking rather than present a catalogue.

Knowledge models

Knowledge models are longer, structured guides that Soma can read when a topic needs more depth than a short search result. The current collection includes a model for scaling facilitation capability across an organization, from individual practice to organization-wide enablement.

Add your own organizational material

You cannot upload sources into the curated knowledge base. Put organization-specific material in Pages, then mention the page in chat.

This separation keeps two questions clear:

“What does Somas specialist material say?”
“What is true or agreed in our organization?”

Current limits

Coverage is deepest in leadership, culture, teams, change, and facilitation.
The workshop activity and coaching catalogues are curated by Soma and are not editable from the app.

Chat is where searches, activity cards, and coaching moves appear.
Memory adds continuity from your previous conversations.
Pages hold your own source material.