Sublime

Transform Yourself to Transform the World. This guidance, articulated by Grace Lee Boggs, is facilitation and mediation gold. How you are, how you show up, invite a quality of presence from participants. If you want to change what is possible in the room, change what you believe is possible. Change how present you are, increase your rigor, focus yo

Teal Organizations start from the premise that even for routine work, people have a sense of pride and want to do a good job.

based on what you know about each person.

We can create a shared space safe from judgment, where our deep listening helps others to find their voice and their truth, just as they help us find ours.

I became especially interested in thinking about my relationships to corrections and accountability—how I held myself and others accountable—through my facilitation work. Even among those of us who long for justice and liberation, I noticed an emerging trend within our movements that looked and felt like policing each other, disposing of each other

What does our community most need right now? And how do we know that?

Balance is a fluid state because life itself is dynamic. Therefore, it makes more sense to look at whether coachees are moving toward balance or away from balance rather than to offer them “balance”

The stance we want to take is that we can be a guide through a process of discovery, engagement, and dialogue in which our clients will find an answer to their question and launch an implementation that will be enduring and productive.

I want us to have an abundance of skill in facilitation and mediation when what needs to be addressed is at the level of misunderstanding, contradiction, mistake, or conflict. I want us collectively to be able to use precise language and to be comfortable asking each other questions for the sake of providing each other the absolute best, most heali