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Designing with the ActivoGraph

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I’m sure you’ve designed or used activities for your trainings and workshops that just seem to work out great every time. Then occasionally, with others, perhaps you’ve run into trouble. Sometime back, while facilitating one of our Journey of Facilitation & Collaboration workshops, I was frustrated by this one activity that never seemed to work […]

Be an Innovative Facilitator

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You know what they say about tree planting. The best time to plant one was years ago, the next best time is today. Do you need to innovate how you facilitate? Do you need to redesign your classic workshops or sessions or integrate new activities, tools, or techniques after learning more about your audience, often […]

Polish or Deflate the Elephant?

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In this week’s article we include a description of a challenge sent in by one of our readers along with my response. While this particular issue is around conflict in the workplace, the framing of question speaks to the opportunity we have as facilitators to invite groups to refine any unhealthy or unproductive process that […]

Revisit Your Roots

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As life long learners, our field can get pretty complicated with all the models, strategies, philosophies, and approaches within which we tend to immerse ourselves. Considering this, it’s probably a good idea once in awhile to reflect on those core attitudes, skills, and perspectives that form the foundation of all the strategies and interventions we […]

Core Values of the Integral Facilitator

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I view Self-Awareness as foundational to effective group leadership. As I review the primary drivers for facilitators—their core values—I’ve been exploring some kind of framework upon which these values might arise. To do this, I begin with the basic premise that right here and now we are all gifted with a most precious faculty:  Awareness. […]