Holding Change the Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
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Holding Change the Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Transform Yourself to Transform the World. This guidance, articulated by Grace Lee Boggs, is facilitation and mediation gold. How you are, how you show up, invite a quality of presence from participants. If you want to change what is possible in the room, change what you believe is possible. Change how present you are, increase your rigor, focus
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How do we practice the art of holding others without losing ourselves?
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change the Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Ignore the tangents, follow the feelings. Sometimes tangents move on the path of feeling, but not always, not often. Often they are looping around the feeling—spiraling up or down from the feeling. Ask hopeful questions like, “How does that connect to what you need in this moment?” Or suggest that they take a break and ask, “What is the essence of
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A facilitator’s role is not to make everyone comfortable. Our job is to help people through their discomfort while using all of the knowledge and feelings in the room to make meaning and take actions informed by the learning.
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Facilitation as Experiments in Culture Creation by Sage Crump
Invitation Goes Further Than Manipulation. It can be very tempting to use charm and pressure to bend a group to your will. Especially if you tell yourself that your will is just to help them achieve their goals. But if you manipulate them to completion, the results won’t stick, because they didn’t do the work to actually get to the conclusion
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facilitation is making it as easy as possible for groups of people to do the hard work of dreaming, planning, visioning, and organizing together; and mediation is supporting people when conflicts or misunderstandings arise that make it hard for them to hear and understand each other in direct conversation
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the difference between facilitation and mediation
Facilitation is breathing in public.
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Stay Black and Breathe by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Create a Culture of Celebration—Pivot Towards Pleasure. It seems simple—but people stay more engaged in a space where they are enjoying each other, and feel celebrated and appreciated. Small, personal celebrations help fuel groups through the hard work, reminding them that they are humans together, regardless of the external pressures they face.
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“If there’s no conversation possible at the level of pairs, there will be no conversation possible for the whole room…It is quite remarkable to have a room of hundreds willing to move forward together because they trust at least two other people in the space. This is what I sometimes think of as trust flocking, finding the balance between depth of
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on fractal facilitation