I love a paradox. The two methods below embody one of my favourites: the fact that competition can produce cooperation. Who’d have thought it? The Win-Win Workout The Win-Win Workout separates the ‘what’ from the ‘why’. if you are familiar with the excellent method of Convergent Facilitation, developed by Miki Kashtan, you will also familiar […]
The Worker Co-op Weekend, hosted by Co-operatives UK is aimed at worker co-operatives to help them learn, share and be inspired by one another. The programme is made up of practical sessions designed and run by worker co-ops and covers a range of topics. This year’s venue is Rock UK Frontier Centre in Northamptomshire, Key elements to the Worker […]
From our training collective cousins, Navigate and Tripod: Finding Collaboration in Conflict: Exploring Convergent Facilitation as a process for making difficult decisions in groups Would you like to learn how to facilitate groups that are stuck in disagreement to move forwards? Do you want to better support groups to come up with decisions that work […]
Effective facilitation of meetings, decision‑making and discussions are a vital element of a team’s success. Good facilitation enables better planning, goal-setting, governance and communication. Sometimes meetings drain energy and tensions take control, particularly when the going gets tough. A good facilitator will be able to support increased participation and better communication when it matters most. This hands-on […]
This is a five day facilitator training that we can highly recommend from personal experience having participated in several. Worldwork is the application of Process Work to facilitating groups, organisations and communities, and working with conflict and hot spots in the issues that tear us apart. Rhizome uses Process Work concepts and approaches in much […]
Take a look at our newsletter, packed full of upcoming Rhizome workshops, what’s hot in our field, featured resources and more. Book on to our one-day workshops whilst there’s still spaces – a facilitation masterclass and managing conflict. There are also open workshops we’re offering at Block around the Clock, on building resilient groups, avoiding […]
In this one day training run by Rhizome coop, participants will: – develop a deeper understanding of the role of communication in working with conflict – explore and practise some of the co-operative skills and attitudes necessary for effectively managing conflict Through engaging exercises, drawing on participants’ own experiences and considering case studies, the workshop […]
Effective facilitation of meetings, decision‑making and discussions are a vital element of an organisation’s success. Good facilitation enables better planning, goal-setting, governance and communication. Sometimes meetings drain energy and tensions take control, particularly when the going gets tough. A good facilitator will be able to support increased participation and better communication when it matters most. This hands-on […]
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 […]
Rhizome is delivering an open workshop on working with conflict, in conjunction with Co-operatives West Midlands, on 9th September 2017 in Birmingham. In this one day training run by Rhizome coop, participants will: – develop a deeper understanding of the role of communication in working with conflict – explore and practice some of the co-operative […]
