Holding Change the Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

A facilitator is someone trained in the skill of shaping group dynamics and collective conversations. My job is to put the right people in a room and help them to collectively think, dream, argue, heal, envision, trust, and connect for a specific larger purpose. My lens on gathering—and the lens I want to share with you—places people and what happe

• Are you guiding people toward a particular kind of transformation, or letting them find their own?


• Are your participatory structures hospitable to refusal, surprise, or divergence?


• What would it mean for your authorship to be partial, porous, or even invisible?