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Colleagues are exposed repeatedly every week to a space made safe by ground rules that invites them to truly be themselves. They learn to see each other in the light of their deep humanity, in the beauty of their strengths and vulnerability. The trust, empathy, and compassion that build up in the meeting expand well beyond the confines of the meeti

Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

When participants and facilitators engage in a creative collaboration, they need to be able to pivot fluidly, not only individually but as a group, like starlings flying in murmurations.

Adam Kahane • Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together

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Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance

Everything Is Workable

Diane Musho Hamilton

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harm happens when choice is absent, but also harm is bound to happen. How can we soften our edges around harm by encouraging autonomy and dismantling hierarchy? This can be done through sharing information, listening, and identifying underlying needs, as well as training our nervous systems to get intimate with receiving feedback.

Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?

Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together

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There are a lot of organizational structures and lived practices embedded in our bodies that we just enact by default. But through explicit facilitation practices or when we make meetings happen in a certain way, that helps change these conditioned ways of operating. In the process of learning to work this way, what really helps is, again, trust. T... See more

Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden

In designing your workshops, you’re co-creating the conditions for self-discovery in a supportive community using liberating practices. You’re offering a safe space for individuals like Melanie to practice becoming choosers and deciders, and to realize that they have freedom in how to relate to themselves, others, and the world.

Liz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops

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