Category: Facilitation
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Book Review: The Art of Convening
The Art of Convening: Authentic Engagement in Meetings, Gatherings, and Conversations by Craig and Patricia Neal with Cynthia Wold is a book on the art of gathering people for the sake of authentic engagement. As with the way of circle, convening has ancient roots. People have always gathered and naturally related to each other. Convening…
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Principles of conversation
The following principles of conversation are from The Art of Convening by Craig & Patricia Neal with Cynthia Wold: Listen … with respect for all the voices. … without fixing, problem-solving, advice-giving. Speak from Your Own Experience Speak from the “l,”from your own experience. What is on your mind/heart? Slow Down the Conversation Allow pauses…
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The Convening Wheel
The Convening Wheel is a way to visualize the nine aspects of convening which are described in depth in The Art of Convening: Authentic Engagement in Meetings, Gatherings, and Conversations by Craig and Patricia Neal with Cynthia Wold: At the Heart of the Matter. Who I am in relationship with others. Clarifying Intent. The alignment…
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Picture Collaboration
Picture Collaboration by Ben Ziegler and Tanya Gadsby is an illustrated guide for working together to solve problems which contains 23 collaborative practices; grouped by collaborative relationships, spaces, and problemsolving techniques. Each practice is described through: 1) an icon, 2) an illustration, and 3) explanatory text.
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Circle guidelines
Here are basic guidelines covering the following components for calling a circle: Intention Welcome Start-point Center and Check-in/Greeting Agreements Three Principles and Three Practices Guardian of process Check-out and Farewell
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Shape Your Thinking
Brandy Agerbeck, who is an artist, graphic facilitator and author of The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide, shares how to Shape Your Thinking in this visual and inspirational TEDxWindCity talk. Brandy goes through the five powers we hold in our hands to visualize and understand our thinking: Chunk, Sort-Group, Connect, Scale, and Grasp. Brandy then describes how…
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When software developers embrace visual facilitation
Øredev is an annual software development conference held in Malmö Sweden. The program staff at Øredev were so excited about visual facilitation that they invited ImageThink be conference speakers and teachers. Here’s the story: ImageThink in Sweden. One of the conference participants thought that ImageThink’s workshop was probably the most useful event at the conference.
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Visual facilitation training (continued)
I have had two fantastic days with Fran O’Hara in her Graphic & Visual Facilitation Training at Wallace Space in London. Visual recording is a very effective way of capturing the essence and key messages of a meeting. It became very clear during the training that Fran has many, many years of experience. She has…
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Visual facilitation training
I’m currently participating in a Graphic & Visual Facilitation Training with Fran O’Hara at Wallace Space in London. It’s so nice when a Twitter connection becomes a real life one. Just had a lovely first day of the training.
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Visual facilitation
The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide: How to use your listening, thinking and drawing skills to make meaning by Brandy Agerbeck is about serving a group of people by making the conversation visual. This helps the group to become more focused and attentive, which in turn helps the group to create shared meaning and understanding. It’s a…