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an improvisation game called “Learning Like a Dolphin.” We invited one of them to volunteer to be “the dolphin,” which Carlos Cruz (an accomplished community organizer) did, and he was asked to leave the room. The others—”the trainers”—agreed on a simple series of coherent actions they wanted the dolphin to learn to do: picking up a chair, then mov
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Facilitation gems
Take-A-Panel (Individual) Exercise to Share Everyone’s Perspective | Collaboration.Ai
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3-Question Mingle
1️⃣ Each participant writes down three questions, one per post-it.
2️⃣ They mingle, pairing up one-on-one, each asking a question.
3️⃣ After answering, they swap questions and continue mingling with someone new.
reminding the group why the meeting is being held and what the group might expect to accomplish takes just a few seconds. Taking this moment is a precondition for a group to be collectively accountable for the success of a meeting.
Samantha Slade • Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time
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