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mediating and meaning
Mediated a dispute between members of a core group in a direct action group. The agreement was to keep the content and fact of the mediation confidential, so I can only talk about the process without any reference to the … Continue reading
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Tagged active listening, consensus decision making, mediation
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On team building, timelines and Gillian McKeith
On November 17th I went to Halifax to spend a day with the co-ordinating team of Suma Wholefoods. In terms of workers’ co-operatives where everyone is paid the same, Suma is the largest in Europe. The team meet regularly, and … Continue reading
Posted in Facilitation, Perry
Tagged active listening, Suma Wholefoods, team building, win-win situations
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Are you listening?
Thanks to the folk at the Interaction Institute for their post The Art of Listening. They quote extensively from an essay on the power of listening by Brenda Ueland. In facilitation and group work circles listening is more than a … Continue reading
Introducing consensus to non-consensus groups
It’s common for people who value consensus to want to make the meetings they have as part of their everyday lives more consensual. So the question of how to use consensus in more traditional, often hierarchical, settings comes up regularly. … Continue reading
Transitioning to consensus: in Leicester
On Saturday I had the rare experience of having to walk just a few hundred yards from home to deliver a 1 day workshop on consensus decision making to the good folk of Transition Leicester. We met in the Friends … Continue reading
Posted in Consensus, Facilitation
Tagged active listening, consensus decision making, Transition Leicester, Transition Towns
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Building the capacity builders
For us the key message is that people need to be involved in their own learning. As facilitators we need to bite the bullet and accept that it takes more time, but participation gets better results….
We facilitators can be as guilty as anyone of stereotyping people as ‘difficult’. We write them off and try to either ignore them or marginalise them so they cause as little disruption as possible. But if we take the time to think about what’s going on then we can see that the problem often lies with us, or with the group as a whole.
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