Archive for January, 2009

Becoming a “Principled” Facilitator

Appearing in Stephen Hawking’s 1988 book “A Brief History of Time” there is a story:
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of [...]

Myth Busting Facilitation

Read through the following and answer whether true or false for you.
On Preparation:

You need a plan
You don’t need any preparation
You don’t need a framework/rational for your facilitation – just master processes
Mastery of one approach is all that it takes

On Learning:

You can learn to be a facilitator in a one or two-day (insert any length) short [...]

Thinking about conversation as a way into facilitation skills

Extracted from Theodore Zeldin’s book “Conversation”
It’s up to us to decide on the kind of conversations we have. The way we talk at the office or factory shapes the work we do; it’s not just the machines which force us to be obedient. I want to show how we could make our work a lot [...]