There’s an excellent post, The Intuitive Facilitator, over at the FacilitatorU blog. If you’ve ever found yourself thinking or saying “I wish I’d gone with my instinct’ or ‘I knew I should have done that differently’ then I’d strongly suggest you read it. For the time-limited here’s my highlights: “As a facilitator, intuition helps me […]
In another recent post Chris Corrigan (see our previous post) has also collated a few links to support Occupy protests in facilitation. Plan to Win have done the same in their #Occupy 101 post, with some specific tools for general assemblies of the kind being used at Occupy Wall Street. The resources include a fantastic […]
Both Carl and I were busy at the Rebellious Media Conference last weekend. We facilitated the 2 participant-led sessions – a short Open Space on ‘Activism and the Media on Saturday, and the “Have Your Say” session on Sunday. Neither were heavily attended, but that’s hardly surprising given the weight of other things in the […]
I was copied into an email discussion earlier this week with an underlying question of whether it’s possible to say that everyone can facilitate. Clearly there are people for whom facilitation is a greater challenge, whether because of confidence, experience, or communication style. What sprung to mind for me was shared facilitation. Not having a […]
There are aspects of meetings I’ve always just accepted. There are other aspects I’ve always been uneasy about, but gone along with. Hmmm, probably not the kind of thing one should admit to on the internet. Over the last year or so I’ve had the opportunity and the catalysts to challenge that acceptance and ‘going […]
Hand signals have become part of every meeting in some activist circles. Even when there’s no formal agreement to use them you’ll find a percentage of folk doing so anyway. There are very good reasons to use hand signals (which I’ll recap at the end), but there are also very real dangers. I’m minded of […]
This just in from our friends at the Radical Rebellious Media Conference: This is an urgent call-out for help with facilitation at the Rebellious Media Conference in London on 8-9 October. This is a 900+ person event, aimed at raising media as an issue across the spectrum of UK activism (not just the peace movement!). […]
A week ago, I spent the day in the company of NGO Capacity Building Forum folk, facilitating a day of Open Space and skill sharing. The theme for the day was Re-energising and Re-motivating Activists, and it drew a crowd from 14 or so NGOs that work with grassroots networks of activists – individuals or groups. There was […]
Seems like a while since I got round to reflecting on the work we’ve been doing on the blog, so here’s a quick catch up. Common Ground Since its inception Climate Camp has been an amazing experiment in working by consensus, a kind of petri dish or hothouse. It’s tried to create a process capable […]
The Tao of Leadership and Facilitation with Gary Reiss Process Oriented Group Work Training on Rank, Power and Conflict Facilitation Bowden House, Totnes, South Devon. Friday evening July 15th – Sunday afternoon July 17th 2011 Process Oriented Psychology, founded by Dr. Arnold Mindell, offers powerful tools for making group life flow more smoothly in connection […]
