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Design an environment that supports people, purpose, and process Just ask any of the growing number of Feng Shui consultants how important your environment is to your effectiveness. I’m sure each of you can remember a time attending an event where something in the environment either supported or hindered your involvement in, or enjoyment of [...]
Intention and Correspondence The idea that we create our reality is as old as the ancient Hindu Vedas, which state that Atman (the individual) is Brahman (the cosmos). This suggests that the whole of experience somehow resides in our consciousness, and that it is our consciousness that shapes, attracts, or otherwise brings about what seem [...]
Attend to Challenges to Your Facilitation Immediately One of a facilitators (particularly a new facilitators) greatest fears is the possibility that the group will object to what’s they’re doing or not cooperate with them in some way. Challenges may come to you directly through verbal objections: “This process isn’t working”…”Your style isn’t working with our [...]
How Can Work Be Fun? How often to you hear statements like these: “They can’t be getting any work done over there, they’re always laughing.” “We don’t have time for play right now, we’ve got work to do!” “They’re having just too much fun.” Tell me, how can anyone have too much fun? And personally, [...]
In many situations, two or three heads are better than one. When it comes to presenting a workshop it is often much easier on everyone if there is more than one person leading the group. Here are several ways in which co-facilitation can benefit both the facilitators and the participants. Capitalizing on Strengths. Co-facilitation allows [...]
There are many ways to make decisions.Sometimes we get stuck using the approach we’ve always used or the only approach we know. And sometimes, we may not even consider how our group make decisions and for that reason, we don’t! The thing is, there are lots of different decision-making models. None of them is the [...]
Be a Model of Presence One of the attractive aspects of facilitation is that you don’t have to do the work for your group. Though sometimes, what you do have to do is a lot harder. One of those things, which I see as the hallmark of an advanced facilitator, is our ability to be [...]
Finding ways for the conference arena to benefit from facilitative processes How many conferences have you been to where, like me, you feel inspired but completely overwhelmed with what to do next? My close friend and colleague, Susan Smith, attended a powerful conference where one speaker, an environmental ecologist from Oxford, made the most profound [...]
People tend to get easily frustrated by group meetings. And how can we blame them? The vast majority of meetings we’ve attended throughout our lives have been less than uplifting, to say the least. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in modern society who would tell you that they actually enjoy attending meetings. “Oh no. [...]
The Dualistic Nature of Values and Internal Value Dynamics According to John Tropman in his book “Making Meetings Work, he claims that many traditional conflict-management approaches make assumptions that get in the way of possible solutions. One of those assumptions is that individuals are clear about their values. In other words, “they have a well-ordered [...]
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