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 […]
Rhizome has been busy facilitating community conversations around the country, using our facilitation skills and experience working with conflict. We’re interested in your experiences doing the same, so do please get in touch or comment below to share how it went. If you’d like us to come and hold a space for needed or challenging […]
Rhizome likes both our action and our democracy direct, so we’re very happy to be supporting Reclaim the Power’s blockade against fracking at Preston New Road at the end of June. The Block around the Clock programme has a great line up of speakers, workshops and activities to get you inspired, informed and ready for […]
One of our cousin training collectives, Seeds for Change, have produced new videos about how to take decisions and feel empowered and listened to through consensus decision‑making. Intro to consensus decision-making video The consensus process video Key values, attitudes and behaviours video The last video also explains the need for facilitation, addressing power and privilege […]
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 […]
Continuing our series of posts about decision-making, here we explore the definition of consensus. Let us know about your experiences of consensus in practice or in the comments below. There are resources available to help you in your decision‑making, on facilitation, on consensus decision‑making, and a plethora of our older resources here for even more […]
Get their take on what makes a great workshop: our Grassroots Trainers’ Network colleagues at Tripod are organising a useful workshop in Edinburgh. Contact us if you’d like a similar workshop run by us and tailored for your needs where you are based. We would bring our extensive experience to bear, designing workshop packages on […]
In the final post in our series on Appreciative Inquiry, using another case study we’ll give you some more hints about how to use the questions. Do get in touch if you need our facilitation services to guide you through, and let us know about your experiences of this method in the comments section […]
In order to help you try out Appreciative Inquiry (without our expert guidance!), the next two blog posts will guide you through a foundation, questions…. The set of questions used in Appreciative Inquiry is called a protocol. I can best show how they are developed by listing the questions we used in Thanet […]
Following on from our Appreciative Inquiry intro, and continuing our case study where illustrating how it was used to develop community strategies, read on to hear the impact following visiting the area over 5 years on… The project described in part 1 took place in 2002/2003. In 2008 I visited Ryedale to talk to some […]
