Tag Archives: group agreement

Footpaths – Community Carbon Reduction: lessons learnt

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

Emily, from Transition Leicester, and I finally got round to debriefing the Footpaths Community Carbon Reduction training for trainers that we co-facilitated in September. We’re preparing for the first of 2 drop-in evening sessions to give ongoing support to facilitators … Continue reading →

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Consensus: the deep end

Posted on October 11, 2010 by

13 participants and 4 facilitators, including myself, gathered in Oxford this weekend for Consensus: in at the deep end a full weekend workshop to explore consensus decision-making in more depth than consensus training usually allows. Of course consensus is a … Continue reading →

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Footpaths – Community Carbon Reduction: training the facilitators

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

This weekend myself and Emily Hodgkinson (process worker, facilitator and Transition Leicester stalwart) co-facilitated a day and a half training for facilitators at Leicester’s Eco House. More specifically facilitators of the Transition Leicester Footpaths: Community Carbon Reduction project, which I’ve … Continue reading →

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Groundrules: empowering or oppressive: part 2

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

Reflecting on Daniel Hunter’s article, mentioned in our previous post, a few things come out for me. Firstly, not to be put off using of a group agreement (I don’t do ground rules and find the terminology too reminiscent of … Continue reading →

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Groundrules – empowering or oppressive?

Posted on July 12, 2010 by

Daniel Hunter of Training for Change has contributed a thought-provoking article to Turning The Tide’s latest Making Waves. In it he talks about ground rules and the various ways in which they can, ironically, undermine the safety of a group. … Continue reading →

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