A lessons-learned workshop for a geographically dispersed political electorate offered a useful test case in designing for inclusion, energy...
Lessons from the Field: Facilitating a Post-Election Review
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Fun-filled facilitation in Whaingaroa
How do you have fun with data and planning about the local visitor economy?
Getting Decisions to Stick
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝘀𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵? This was the focus of a recent...
Expert facilitation is a key to participatory democracy
Participatory Democracy is front of mind after a talk by @Simon Wright of Trust Democracy this week! Have you seen recent advertisements promoting...
What is ToP Facilitation?
I keep getting the question. The furrowed brow. What? ToP? Here it is. Its long name - hard to say - is The Technology of Participation. A body of...
The Good, the Bad and the Tricky… finding the right process facilitator
In my last blog I distinguished a process facilitator from others whose role also uses the term, e.g. learning facilitators in the education world....
What on earth actually IS a facilitator?
When I tell people I am a facilitator, more often than not I have to follow it up with some examples. This is because the term, a bit like being a...
Some More Tips for Facilitating Effectively Online
It’s the first week of our (slightly more relaxed!) Level 3 covid-19 lockdown here in NZ. And whilst quite a few people are back at work, physical...
Facilitating Online- What I’ve Learned as a Facilitator from ‘Lockdown’ the Past Two Weeks
It's week two of lockdown here in NZ, and I have done more online facilitation in the past ten days than in the entire 25 years prior that I have...