Sublime

people take turns as the facilitator

Part Two In Practice In Pairs

At AES, Dennis Bakke installed a beautiful practice of team appraisal with his closest peers. They got together once a year, often over dinner in one of their homes to make for a relaxed, informal setting. Every person in turn shared his or her self-evaluation. Other team members commented, questioned, or encouraged each other to reach a deeper und

In Practice: The Invitation Question

Training professionals can be part of major organizational improvements by candidly bringing forward barriers and participating in a task force to correct them.

The practice of transformative facilitation involves gradually and iteratively building consensus and clarity about what is going on in the group’s situation (through cycling between advocating and inquiring), where the group wants to get to (through cycling between concluding and advancing), and how they will get there (through cycling between map

my core responsibility is to be a benefit to whatever I’m engaged in. I may not always know HOW that will happen but it has to be my aim. I want peoples’ lives to have been better (even in very tiny ways) from having participated with me in this work.

Self-Observation and Realization • Share our present-moment observations

Any changes a person makes in coaching are more likely to have a lasting and meaningful impact when their broader patterns, identity strategies, and socially constructed narratives are addressed (Mattingly, 1998). Ultimately, it is about asking this marvelous question from Lisa Marshall: “What story is worth your life?”