Discussion

Facilitate Active Listening with a staff team

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

Facilitation magic!

Facilitation magic!

I am stoked, excited, happy, satisfied. Yesterday, I experienced the magic of facilitating an in-person session and an online session. I facilitate many sessions in these “venues” yet having these two events back-to-back intensified the comparison of what worked, and

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