Here we introduce Appreciative Inquiry, one of the tools we use in Rhizome’s facilitation and training. Over the next few months we have a series of blog posts helping you figure out how you can use the model, illustrated through case studies. Do check back, and get in touch with your comments or questions. First […]
Tripod Training, a fellow training co-op, and also part of the UK Grassroots Trainers’ Network, are running a two-day workshop that looks good. Here are the details. Running Great Workshops Friday 8th and Saturday 9th December 2017, Edinburgh Training and facilitation skills are key to successful organising, campaigning and movement building. This 2-day […]
Continuing our year-spanning mini-series on facilitating meetings; previous episodes are still avaialable for viewing, the first about beginnings, the second about the middle. Here’s some quick ideas and methods, with one for the brave! What methods have you tried and what happened? As my last blog said, the end game in meetings has two elements: […]
What looks to be a useful workshop organised by our colleagues in Navigate, also part of the UK Grassroots Trainers’ Network, even if you didn’t go to the taster: Day workshop – Sat 25th November 2017, 11am – 4pm Fully accessible venue in central Oxford Being involved in campaigns and taking action on issues of […]
There’s lots of different ways to facilitate meetings, and here we share a few ideas. Meetings have diferent stages, and a well-facilitated discussion tries to go beyond ‘business as usual; read more about this and participatory decision-making here. Some years back we published a blog post about what to do at the beginning of a […]
Most of the face-to-face encounters you’ll find on this site involve getting a group of people into a room for a length of time, supported by training or facilitation; below is an alternative. Do please share your experiences of running discussion groups and stalls on the street. What worked, or didn’t? Do you think you […]
A while back, I attended the AGM of my local chess club, held in the room where we play, upstairs in a pub. We ploughed through the agenda in a manner that was low-key and low energy – until the very last item. The fuse was lit by Richard, a teacher who runs his school’s […]
Here we explore the relationship in decision-making between voting and consensus and how they can be combined, with a story from our facilitation work. For those of us for whom a debate is the best-known type of discussion, a vote is what happens when the discussion is over. Actually, decision‑making usually works best if the […]
There’s an interesting workshop coming up on 23rd September, for any fans of decentralised organising, and different ways of organising ourselves in organisations. All the details are below. Rich and Nati have been supporting non-hierarchical organisations for more than five years, co-founding Loomio (a worker co-op building software for collective decision-making) and Enspiral (a network […]
If you read our last blog post, you’ll know that this is the last of a short series of three blogs to remind you of the introductory guides in our resources section. This one is on groups. The aspect of the guide that I want to develop here is active listening. I’ve always found that […]
