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 →
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 →
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 →
I am revisiting a blog post I wrote in 2016: Facilitation tip 2: Design the workshop as a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. The drawing that I made then needs a major tweak. Jump or dive? The... Continue Reading →
Curtis Ogden blogged about Thinking like a network 2.0, providing a summary of his understanding “of what is new and different when we call something a network, as opposed to a coalition, collaborative or alliance”. That was in October 2017. I loved... Continue Reading →
Recently, Doug Neil made a visual inquiry into his sketchnotes. He discovered an iceberg under the surface of each of his completed sketchnote. There is a lot going on before his sketchnotes go viral that is not visible: a lot... Continue Reading →
Picture: Workshop review with sticky dots How do you review a workshop with participants that goes beyond the ‘sticky dots’? Well, the sticky dots can be meaningful, it all depends (as always) on the context and the purpose. The question... Continue Reading →
