Facilitation
The context changes the content.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
A List of Recommendations for Impact Conveners and Curators
- Ensure a coherent and shared welcome and initiation into the experience. Enable arriving.
- Logistics. This matters hugely. Create a seamless and easy experience. Manage transitions.
- Create a buddy system if it’s a large group (over 25) to check in with each other before, during and after.
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Dr. Renée Lertzman • Convenings, Cohorts + Communities: Notes on so-called "impact" gatherings
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In a world of virtual or hybrid work and shortened attention spans, facilitators have an opportunity - and the responsibility - to bring the body back into the workspace.
Dr Myriam Hadnes
Dr Myriam Hadnes
State of Facilitation 2025 – Report and Expert Insights
When artful leaders have space and support to connect deeply and are challenged to strategize and work together in new ways, possibilities light up at the intersections. We create conditions for this kind of connection, challenge leaders to strategize in new ways and support the emergent ideas and collaborations that arise.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
In 2024, I witnessed in many places how creating the right holding spaces—where attention and intention align—unleashes extraordinary energy and agency
Otto Scharmer • Entering
When we create safe spaces, time away from screens, ‘Yes, and’ spaces, working with other people over tasks that facilitate connection and craft a narrative that offers a hopeful take on the future, the world can start to come back into focus.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
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.
Dr. Renée Lertzman • Convenings, Cohorts + Communities: Notes on so-called "impact" gatherings
These leaders need more than tools—they need generative spaces to step back, sense what’s emerging, and connect with others doing similar work.
As Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine reminds us: “Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order.”
As Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine reminds us: “Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order.”