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A Facilitation Moment: a challenge by a participant

barbara pedersen July 28, 2023July 28, 2023 Belonging, collaboration, community, complexity, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, Diversity, Equity, facilitation, fierce conversations, in-person facilitation, Inclusion, listening, nonprofit, online facilitation, Planning, silence, Simplicity, strategic planning

A facilitation moment. You know it! You are facilitating a group and this happens. ➡ A participant forcefully challenges an activity.➡ A participant challenges you or someone else about an idea.➡ A individual stands up and yells at everyone.And so

Facilitate Active Listening with a staff team

barbara pedersen March 29, 2023March 29, 2023 Belonging, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, Diversity, Equity, facilitation, Fun, Inclusion, intersectionality, listening, strategic planning, Talking, team building, team work

Two people standing and facing each other. One is talking and gesturing and one is listening intently.

In a recent team building session with a staff team, I spontaneously facilitated an Active Listening technique as a group activity to help the participants enhance their communication skills. I usually use Active Listening with individuals talking in pairs. In

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