Tag Archives: facilitation tools

Learning facilitation from Delia Smith

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

Charles Leadbeater, an expert on innovation, once wrote that just as Adam Smith was the key to the eighteenth century, so the key to our era is Delia Smith. Delia, he said, is the example par excellence of how we … Continue reading →

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Sticking your hand up to oppression

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

Hand signals have become part of every meeting in some activist circles. Even when there’s no formal agreement to use them you’ll find a percentage of folk doing so anyway. There are very good reasons to use hand signals (which … Continue reading →

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Warm ups, comfort zones, and corporate raiders

Posted on February 27, 2011 by

In the process of planning yesterday’s Steiner school meeting I worked with the existing  core group and they in turn shared the plan with a couple of other folk involved in the meeting. One or two revisions came back to … Continue reading →

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Sharing values

Posted on February 6, 2011 by

I spent an hour and a half on the phone today to Jeannie and Steph, 2 of the facilitators that attended the Transition Network Dreaming Circle back in December. We were talking about meetings, more specifically trying to shape some … Continue reading →

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Facilitation – moments of clarity

Posted on February 1, 2011 by

Thanks once again to Dwight Towers for the lead to Chris Corrigan’s Facilitation Resources (which he in turn got from Johnnie Moore). A long and detailed list of approaches, specific tools and more. I haven’t found time to dig around … Continue reading →

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Strategy resources – useful tools and techniques

Posted on July 27, 2010 by

As promised at the start of our strategy conversation, here are some links for further reading and tools and techniques: Readers of our blog may be familiar with story based strategy as told by smartMeme, particularly their Re:Imagining Change publication. … Continue reading →

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