Surfing around I found this elegant description of the Satir Change Model by Steve Smith. I’m fairly phobic about “change models” but I’ve worked with this one and sometimes found it helpful – and human. For instance, it acknowledges the role of chaos in change and the wisdom of not ending it prematurely… (Apols to whoever’s blog it was that linked me to this, I got lost somewhere)
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
I shot this in a single eight-minute take, which is in the spirit of an experience of Ralf Wetzel’s workshop, Leading from the Clown. Clown training is probably the deepest and most challenging work I’ve done. Enjoy.
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
The power of small gestures and noticing
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
When Viv and I were training facilitators earlier this year, some of the liveliest sessions were the ones on status. We used a series of improv games to explore how
Chris Corrigan points to a collection of citizen participation resources, 63 approaches to helping groups converse and make decisions. I’m with Chris when he says “As a facilitator I mostly
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work but rather teach them to long for the
Another pithy post from Matt this time on Myers-Briggs and similar ways of classifying people. The more I am exposed to these tools, the more they remind me of MBTI
