You are a Process

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Facilitating processes for others means facilitating your process too. Facilitators spend a lot of time preparing material and frameworks for setting up and running effective group processes. They may assemble resources relevant to the focus of their group. They attempt to anticipate some of the problems, concerns, and challenges that may present themselves so that they’ll [...]

Getting to the Bottom of Yourself

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As I’m getting to know Madison, I’ve been meeting quite a few new people. When we meet, many of them ask, “What do you do to stay busy?” I used to be a bit embarrassed to answer this question honestly, but lately I’ve been more frank by responding with something like, “Well, I haven’t been [...]

Operating from Center as a Facilitator

This week’s article, Operating from Center as a Facilitator was submitted by Thomas Crum, one of my favorite teachers and authors on centering and the use of conflict as a constructive catalyst for living an authentic and artful life. Everything we do in life, particularly the challenging discipline of facilitation, is improved when we operate [...]

Transmitting Self-Cooperation

A couple of years ago, I attended a weekend workshop on the Alexander Technique. The Alexander Technique works with your body awareness to help identify and release bad habits of movement that you have built up over a lifetime of stress. This tool is especially useful for singers, musicians, actors, dancers or athletes to help [...]