governance

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

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

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

Intersectionality and 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

Learning from our past to plan our future: a Historical Scan

I love a great Historical Scan technique when facilitating. I was reminded of the power of the Scan when I used it recently with the board and staff of a large provincial nonprofit organization. They wanted to decide the core

Learning while “Zooming” over seven weeks

Learning while “Zooming” over seven weeks

I recently facilitated a seven-part series about nonprofit board governance and teamwork for a 12-member board of directors. The platform was Zoom, the sessions were 1½ hour each held weekly over seven weeks, and most of the participants had only