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“A Hero’s Journey” – A Model to Help Groups Through Big Change
Recently, I had the pleasure of being reminded of a model that I think serves facilitators and their groups well. It is Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey”. I was co-facilitating a plenary session with my dear ICA colleague, Jo Nelson who works with ICA Canada. She had the idea of using the theme of the Hero’s…
Unflappable Holy Cows – Lessons Learned
I’ve been back from India for 10 days. I went there to take a course called Ayurveda Mandala. This is partly out of sheer personal interest for continuing to develop my health and wellness practices but also largely staying curious about the work I’ve been co-creating on The 5 Elements of Facilitation Design. What keeps…
My Top Ten (Joys of Virtual Facilitation)
(Updated April 2020) In January of 2013, I naively set out to offer my first virtual facilitation training. How hard can it be? Lots seem to be doing it. What I did not realize is that many are offering teleseminars and webinars and these are NOT the same as virtual interactive trainings. You see, webinars…
What About Having Culturally Competent Meetings that Rock?
In April we started our first in a three part series of free webinars called “Meetings That Rock”. I realized that in the promotional video that I made some cultural competency mistakes. A colleague talked about this with me and it was embarrassing that after all my cultural competency training and quest to be a…
Why Brainstorming Often Fails
Are you making the right kind of “splash” with your brainstorming technique? We suspect you have seen poor brainstorming technique by people not trained. Typically here is how brainstorming goes: The meeting person says: “We have problem x. What can we do to solve it?” They write down as many ideas as they can get from…
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