Barbara Pedersen

Co-facilitation and Collaboration: working with colleagues is great.

barbara pedersen September 24, 2018 Chris Pedersen, consulting, Conversation, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation, lessons, Planning, strategic planning, Talking

What a great year I had working with others! Co-facilitation and collaboration are the highlights I describe in my third blog about lessons learned over the past year in my facilitation business. I previously wrote two blogs; one about Discomfort

Invite participants to feel uncomfortable. Lessons from the past year.

barbara pedersen August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Conversation, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation, lessons

Invite participants to feel uncomfortable. This is the second article in a short series of lessons I learned or affirmed during my past year as a facilitator. When facilitating some sessions, I purposely encouraged participants to willingly feel slightly uncomfortable

A lesson from my past year: Facilitating polarized viewpoints

barbara pedersen August 2, 2018 consulting, Conversation, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation

Facilitating diverse and at times, polarized, viewpoints – what did I learn in the past year? How will I use my lessons in the upcoming year? On June 30, 2018, I completed my 24th year of working as an independent

The physical space of facilitation and dialogue

barbara pedersen June 12, 2018June 12, 2018 Chris Pedersen, Dialogue, facilitation, Planning

The physical space of facilitation and dialogue is important. Co-written by Barb Pedersen and Chris Pedersen Chris: I recently attended a one day conference in Montreal atop a prestigious hotel downtown. The entire top floor of the hotel has been