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A Strategic Plan is like a rainforest.

barbara pedersen May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 books, business, business planning, collaboration, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, facilitation, hybrid sessions, in-person facilitation, listening, nonprofit, online facilitation, Planning, Simplicity, strategic planning, team building, team work, virtual, virtual facilitation, Visual facilitation

A simile, metaphor, and analogy arrived in a workshop. It’s not a joke! These techniques make wonderful facilitation tools. I recently facilitated a two-hour session to help members of a leadership team review, understand, and re-commit to their strategic plan.

ChatGPT helped me design a community input session.

barbara pedersen April 11, 2023April 11, 2023 artificial intelligence, business, business planning, ChatGPT, collaboration, community, complexity, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation, Fun, in-person facilitation, online facilitation, Planning, process, reading, Simplicity, strategic planning, team building, team work, technology, Trends, virtual, virtual facilitation

Social media is prolific with information about Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT. I enjoy learning from them. Here is my experiment with ChatGPT to help me do what I do the most; design a session. My first request to ChatGPT was

Give Gain toGether: A facilitation technique for almost any topic.

barbara pedersen February 20, 2023February 20, 2023 Belonging, books, business, business planning, collaboration, complexity, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, Diversity, Equity, facilitation, Fun, governance, hybrid sessions, in-person facilitation, Inclusion, intersectionality, learning styles, listening, nonprofit, Planning, process, reading, Simplicity, strategic planning, Talking, technology, virtual, virtual facilitation, Visual facilitation

Give Gain toGether: A technique to facilitate teambuilding, planning, opening and closing conversations, discussion guidelines … and just about any topic. About ten years ago, I created a technique I call Give Gain toGether for a community goal-setting and action-planning

Intersectionality and facilitation

barbara pedersen February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 Belonging, business, business planning, complexity, consulting, design, Dialogue, Discussion, Diversity, Equity, facilitation, governance, hybrid sessions, in-person facilitation, Inclusion, intersectionality, nonprofit, online facilitation, Planning, process, reading, silence, strategic planning, Talking, technology, virtual, virtual facilitation, Visual facilitation

Intersectionality? Is it a new word for you? One you know well? A way of looking at the world? A tool you use to plan meetings and facilitated sessions? The #yycfacilitators network met online in November 2022 to learn from