Facilitation

This is the time to creatively, thoughtfully and carefully consider how we design and foster our communities of impact. To be intentional about format, facilitation and how our gatherings can help grow each other, and inform our practices and business.

We are in a collective global moment of figuring out, testing and experimenting with ways of bringing people together for impact . How we do this in service of driving change in the world is a topic of much interest and considerable investment of resources. We are in-between paradigms, between older and more emergent, newer formats.

I believe that to design for appropriate participation is ultimately to design for human and planetary health.

collaboration and clear communication go hand in hand—and we have to be deliberate about both

It is best to regard emergence and design as two sides of the same coin. As participants in these systems we are all co-responsible for what properties will emerge. Both the quality of our being and what we do or don’t do affects the overall health and wellbeing of the complex dynamic systems we participate in.

Brian Goodwin taught me that the most important lesson of complexity science is a shift of intention away from prediction and control to appropriate participation . The mental, emotional and psychological state of an intervener affects the outcome of any systems intervention. If we stop wanting to control change and shift to a responsive dance with... See more