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Everything you want to know (or say) … and are afraid to ask (or say.)

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Everything you want to know (or say) … and are afraid to ask (or say.)

I use a simple yet impactful facilitation activity that encourages participants in meetings and sessions to express their concerns, hopes, and fears without worrying about being disregarded, looked down upon, ridiculed, or punished. It’s called “everything I want to know

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Experience. Renewal. Celebration

barbara pedersen Belonging, business, business planning, collaboration, community, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, Diversity, facilitation, fierce conversations, Fun, governance, hybrid sessions, in-person facilitation, Inclusion, lessons, Life Work Balance, listening, nonprofit, online facilitation, Planning, process, reading, Simplicity, stories, storytelling, strategic planning, Talking, team building, team work, technology, Trends, virtual, virtual facilitation, Visual facilitation
Experience. Renewal. Celebration

I recently celebrated 30 years of my facilitation business and coincidentally recertified as a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). These milestones got me thinking about experience, renewal, and celebration. I hope my musings help anyone

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Using outcomes to create clarity through chaos.

barbara pedersen Belonging, business, business planning, collaboration, community, complexity, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation, fierce conversations, Fun, Future forecasting, governance, hybrid sessions, in-person facilitation, Inclusion, lessons, listening, nonprofit, online facilitation, Planning, Simplicity, stories, storytelling, team building, team work, virtual, virtual facilitation, Visual facilitation

“Clarity through chaos.” “We came together and found we had a common goal.”  I value this feedback from participants in two sessions I facilitated recently. Their success started when the group and I met before the session and articulated clear

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The Healing Power of Conversation

barbara pedersen Belonging, business, collaboration, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, Diversity, facilitation, Fun, holidays, in-person facilitation, Inclusion, listening, nonprofit, online facilitation, Planning, silence, Simplicity, stories, storytelling, strategic planning, Talking, team building, virtual, virtual facilitation

All I want for Christmas is to express my deepest appreciation for every person who contributed to a group conversation and to the facilitators who supported them. I, and I think, many other people, feel there is little we can

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