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Hearing voices: activists engaging communities
Yesterday I was facilitating at the regular meeting of the Building Activist Networks Forum. The theme of the session was supporting activists in engaging with their communities. To be precise, I was co-facilitating – with Naveed from Oxfam UK. Right … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, capacity building, Matthew
Tagged Building Activist Networks, capacity building, community activism, NGO Forum
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An appreciative audience for Crowd Wise
I spent the afternoon in London on Wednesday at a meeting of the Capacity Building Forum. You may be glad to know that there was, finally, talk of agreeing a new name (the current one hardly trips off the tongue) … Continue reading
Posted in capacity building, Consensus, Facilitation
Tagged NGO Forum, consensus, Crowd Wise, Perry Walker, Fairtrade Foundation
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Re-energising activists
A week ago, I spent the day in the company of NGO Capacity Building Forum folk, facilitating a day of Open Space and skill sharing. The theme for the day was Re-energising and Re-motivating Activists, and it drew a crowd from 14 … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, capacity building, Facilitation
Tagged Activism, facilitation, NGO Forum, Open Space, community activism, Open Space Technology
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Conflict resolution for capacity builders
Rhizome is a regular contributor to the meetings of the NGO Forum, an informal meeting of capacity building and network staff from campaigning organisation that have, or aspire to, a local group network. As a result of our involvement with … Continue reading
Local groups: successes and challenges
The NGO Forum met on Thursday at WDM’s offices in London. The session focused on learning from each other about supporting local group networks. The topic was obviously a hot one as about a dozen new organisations responded to the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Facilitation
Tagged capacity building, Climate Camp, facilitation, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, local group networks, NGO Forum, Open Space
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intro to conflict resolution
I ran a short training session with the NGO Capacity Builders Skillshare Forum the other day. Posed with the issue of how to condense what could be a several days long training into 1hr 45mins, I decided to focus on … Continue reading
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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