In a sense, all these tools are extremely pragmatic. What's the easiest way to achieve group consensus? Develop innovative ideas? Break through a disagreement? Facilitation is an extremely pragmatic skillset, and saves countless of hours, days, weeks, months otherwise wasted solving the wrong problem. Invite them to see the pragmatic value that design thinking brings. 

Plus, pragmatic people are beautiful. They help us stay grounded and anchored, they help us implement, and they help us think realistically. That type of thinking is welcome and necessary! Especially at the right spot. Try exploring Edward De Bono's "Six Thinking Hats" — it's a way of helping name the type of input you're looking for. Pragmatic people tend to see the dangers/risks (the "black hat") or the information/facts (the "white hat"). At what part of the process would it be good to get some black hat or white hat perspectives? Knowing the answer to that can help you involve them at the right time.

We need many, many diverse ways if thinking of we are going to navigate the future well. We need not diminish the value of one way of thinking over another. We need to welcome pragmatic and creative folks into harmonious partnership, to get the best of our paradoxical ways of seeing the world.

Lovely question.

Size of group or community is a helpful filter: A community-organization with under 100 people might do well with something like World Cafe. A larger community, like a city, you'd probably want a survey. A smaller group, 50 or less, you could do circle practice with. 
Group objective is another helpful filter: what are you trying to achieve? 

Kate Sutherland's book "We Can Do This!" as well as adrienne maree brown's "Holding Change" offer some helpful frameworks for determining what your group needs. 

Find where there are moments or teams that need collaboration and imagination — start there.