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Facilitation is teamwork

About the power of collaboration between facilitators. You can facilitate alone.You can buddy up with another experienced facilitator and facilitate as a team.You can facilitate with an assistant co-facilitator. I started my facilitation career 20 years ago as a co-facilitator.... Continue Reading →

Simplify to amplify.

Marie Kondo for meetings. At the end of last year, I had a wonderful conversation about simplifying and amplifying what I am doing in my capacity as a facilitator, mentor and coach during the NeverDoneBefore Festival. NeverDoneBefore is a global... Continue Reading →

Less and better

How to get out of the meeting marathon. When I observe what is happening around me, I notice that many people feel trapped in a never-ending meeting loop. I hear them saying that they have little time to prepare and... Continue Reading →

Every meeting has a shape – How to shape yours for more delight.

How do you handle the many meetings you have? Do you let them happen or do you shape them intentionally? Each time again?  Even when you don’t shape them. They will be shaped anyway. By habitual patterns. Routines set in... Continue Reading →

Some principles and tactics for facilitating online

Over the past years, I have developed some principles and tactics that guide my online facilitation. Now and then I love to see what is emerging and make sense of my own ‘learning journey'. I am grateful to many sparring... Continue Reading →

Saying yes to hybrid meetings – make them inclusive, interactive, and purposeful.

How do you react when you are invited to a hybrid meeting? Or when someone asks you to facilitate one? Are you fully on board with a heartfelt yes, let’s do this?Are you curious and at the same time hesitating?Are... Continue Reading →

What do you manage when you are the facilitator?

Time?The process?Room arrangements?Expectations?Results?Others?Yourself? This question came up recently when Ewen Le Borgne and I conducted an in-house online facilitation training with a global action network. As a sort of afterthought, we reflected the above and some more questions were asked... Continue Reading →

Bringing a workshop online = Bringing a process online

When planning an online workshop do you think ‘event’, or do you think ‘process’? How has the collaborative online experience over the past weeks and months under the Covid-19 restrictions influenced your workshop planning? Have you tried to bring your... Continue Reading →

Define conversation spaces and shift the focus from content to purpose, people and process

How do you design a workshop that is flowing naturally and invites for collaboration, conversation and learning? After an experience with a network gathering that I am supporting and facilitating, I would say start with defining conversation spaces. In my... Continue Reading →

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