Facilitating & Hosting
Serving the whole by engaging the parts
Through open dialogue and participatory facilitation methodologies, I work alongside you and your teams to co-create meaningful, values-aligned strategies and solutions. The dialogic approach ensures leaders leverage the collective wisdom of people in pursuit of positive change through increased engagement around topics of significance.
“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
~ Ken Blanchard
Below is a sample of the approaches I draw upon when designing participatory change and strategy-setting sessions. I wholehearted embrace these tools and techniques because I believe them to be most beneficial to a system that cares about quality relationships and the power of collective imagination and involved action.
Appreciative Inquiry AI
When organizations commit to host an appreciative inquiry process, they are sponsoring a culture of inclusiveness and positivity. Equally impactful for a small team as for a large summit, the process offers a way for people to actively mobilize change by focusing on what they want more of, stated in the positive. Through open dialogue, storytelling, and synthesizing, people co-create a dream, design a process for implementation and align individual efforts for a shared destiny.
Liberating Structures LS
LS are an ever-growing menu of simple yet powerful “structures” or engagement designs that make it easy for everyone in a group to contribute their ideas, insights, and creativity. By encouraging active participation and inclusive decision-making, they unlock the collective intelligence of teams and organizations. You can sprinkle then into your meeting agendas, or stack them to produce a strategic ideation and implementation journey.
Open Space Technology OST
OST is a dynamic and self-organizing approach to group collaboration, designed to bring people together around topics they care deeply about. It creates a space where participants set the agenda, share ideas, and explore solutions in an open and flexible format. By allowing individuals to focus on what matters most to them, Open Space fosters deep engagement, sparks innovation, and generates actionable outcomes. It’s an ideal method for tackling complex challenges, encouraging creativity, and building a sense of shared ownership, community, and commitment.
World Cafe Methodology WCM
World Cafe Methodology WCM is a wonderful informal, yet structured, way for hosting large group dialogues around topics of significance. The methodology honours a set of design principles intended to democratize participation and enhance collective listening and learning. World Cafe is easily integrated into an agenda and works well to explore real life challenges that involve peoples’ values, ideas, priorities, preferences and collective momentum for change.
Let’s connect
Every planning session, change initiative, workplace meeting, or special event is a chance to engage, enliven, and enrich the relationships between people and their commitment to their work. If you are looking for facilitation or design support, please reach out.
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