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Facilitating Collective Intelligence
Perhaps the greatest challenge we face in the modern world is the challenge of effective collaboration. In social, political, business and educational settings, working groups often fail to solve complex problems because their method of collaborative problem solving is ineffective. … Continue reading
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Nothing is Written – Learning is an Adventure
Life is unruly and unpredictable – our best approach is to remain open, curious and flexible. Rather than giving people reassuring “right answers” we may do better to model experimentation, curiosity and openness. We think it’s possible to create more … Continue reading
Posted in Facilitation, Learning, Meetings, Networks, Training
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enSwarm – Swarm Facilitation and Decision Making
enSwarm provides companies and organisations with “swarm” based facilitation software tools that improve group efficiency and collaborative working. Our software provides a structure for facilitated workshops that incentivises people to behave in a more collaborative way. We want to enhance … Continue reading
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Maximizing Facilitation Skills Using Principles of Complexity Science
At the heart of complexity science is a set of essential characteristics of complex adaptive systems that we can directly apply to organizations and our work as facilitators. It is always risky to take scientific principles developed in one context … Continue reading
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Advanced Facilitation Strategies: Tools and Techniques to Master Difficult Situations
From Ingrid Bens, the author of the best-selling book Facilitating with Ease!, comes the next-step resource for project leaders, managers, community leaders, teachers, and other facilitators who want to hone their skills in order to deal with complex situations. Advanced … Continue reading
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Tools for a Movement of Leaders: OWS Facilitator Workshop
Lisa Fithian has been working for nonviolent social change since the mid 1970’s. Over the years she has been a student, labor and community organizer on a broad range of issues. From environmental justice to student and worker rights, from … Continue reading
Posted in Facilitation, Movimientos sociales, OWS, Social movements
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Three core practices for creative leadership
From an interview with my dear friend Peggy Holman on enhancing creative leadership: Q: What is one practice that people could start applying today to bring more creativity into their work or their business organization? Holman: If I were to … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Design, Facilitation, Leadership
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Complexity and participative facilitation
Facilitated workshops are a very common feature of organisational life and are sometimes very good examples of the kind of thinking that assumes we need to design a process to have a process. This layering of process onprocess arises from … Continue reading
Learning 2 Learn Handbook for Facilitators
Between November 2008 and October 2010, a European network of seven organisations has joined its efforts to develop, implement and analyse innovative approaches in the field of non-formal adult education aimed at the development of the competence enabling the learners … Continue reading
Posted in Facilitation, Handbook, Learning to learn, Lifelong learning
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Organizing Community-wide Study-Circles for Dialogue, Action and Change – A Step-by-step Guide
Organizing community-wide study circles is not an easy task, but with a little help you can be successful. Dozens of people – just like you – have organized successful community-wide study circle programs in communities all over the country. This … Continue reading
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