The Art of Facilitation
Self discovery in community is the future
The Art of Facilitation
There is power in sending people on quests, learning in groups, and developing a body of people that moves together. This is how you create a regenerative community that amplifies human potential and creates a path towards solving our most challenging problems.
Ryan Sean Adams • DAOs as Playgrounds for Growth and Development
Mind-body experiences are the vehicle for delivering the workshop content. The best ones follow a three-step process—safety, experience, and integration. We refer to this as the transformational learning cycle, which is a facilitated process of self-discovery.
Liz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
The chapters of this book follow the stages of spiritual work as I see and have experienced them. This is, fundamentally, the journey from the outermost layers of our consciousness, through the obstructions, into our innermost core. Chapter 1 encourages us to accept our flawed human nature and to honor our spiritual longing. Chapter 2 reinforces
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To create something that others want to join and support, we have to remember a core tenet: communities function best and are most durable when they’re helping members to be more successful in some way in a connected and dynamic world.
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Learning endures longer when a leader guides learners to take time to focus on what’s rewarding and meaningful about an experience. When the leader directs awareness to how growth feels in the body, participants can consciously absorb and savor the experience. By letting it really sink in, the learning is internalized and becomes a part of the
... See moreLiz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
Rather, this is about creating ecosystems in which people are encouraged and supported, where they have access to tools and techniques, helpful organizational “recipes,” and examples of positive living so that they might move slowly but surely into themselves. It’s not magical and it doesn’t happen overnight, but in the right space and at the right... See more
Ari's Top 5—Helping Others Get to Greatness
Learning is enriched and deepened when experiences are personally relevant, emotionally stimulating, new and different, reinforced through repetition, and engaged through multiple modalities.16 Mind-body experiences are the vehicle for exponential learning in a transformational workshop. They connect people to themselves, others, and the natural
... See moreLiz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
Mind-body experiences are an invitation to go on a journey of exploration and self-inquiry. The value of experience is that it is engaging. It lets people find answers for themselves, have a stake in what they create, and then share their discoveries with others.
Liz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
As a workshop leader, how you teach is more valuable than what you teach. It’s not about charisma. It’s about being clear, consistent, appreciative, encouraging, caring, and optimistic. Real power comes from warmth, presence, and the ability to self-regulate and respond more naturally to whatever comes up in your group.