Recent Comments
Tag Archives: facilitation
How on earth does ANYTHING get done?
No wonder your average entrepreneur so loathes meetings. What was it Dave Berry said – organisations have meetings because they can’t actually masturbate? Either they are poorly conceived (death by powerpoint, serial-sage-on-the-stage) or else they are adequately conceived and then … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, activism
Tagged ego-fodder, facilitation, facipulation, meetings
Leave a comment
Green Visions, Red Mist and Flouncer’s Remorse
Flouncer’s Remorse is a concept that is more fun to invent than to experience. Trust me on this. I let anger and frustration and powerlessness and disappointment cloud my judgement. I let those things give me “permission” to ask permission … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, activism
Tagged facilitation, fll, flouncer's remorse, meetings, reflection
Leave a comment
The first rule of facilitation is you do NOT facipulate
I broke my “meetings” rule. To be fair to myself, my attendance at this particular meeting (where I was supposed to facilitate the afternoon session) pre-dates my “no more meetings” promise… I am not going to say much, cos I … Continue reading
Back-seat facilitation – further questions
For those of you came in late; I went to (another) meeting that was going nowhere slowly because of unacknowledged needs, and I wrote my usual supercilious and hand-wringing style post on “infantile disorders and the ethics of back-seat facilitation.” … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, activism, competence
Tagged back-seat faciliitation, facilitation, meetings
Leave a comment
Infantile disorders and the ethics of back-seat facilitation
Right, this has to be obliquer than I normally do; Wtf is it with people and their needs for affirmation/affiliation/attention in meetings? They just blurt out stuff randomly that takes the collective (sic) process (sic) nowhere. And ignore that other … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, activism
Tagged facilitation, infantile disorders, meetings
3 Comments
On the Beach with Johnnie and Viv
Attention Conservation Notice: Me burbling about how cool Viv McWaters and Johnnie Moore are. Links to interesting books and ideas. Thanks to the Internet we can now all have shallow and deep and somewhere-in-between relationships with people we never meet … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, competence
Tagged facilitation, friends, johnnie moore, Viv McWaters
1 Comment
Toolboxes versus repertoires
One of the many many things I picked up from yesterday’s fab extended lunch with Johnnie and Viv was caution around the use of the term of “toolbox” for techniques that can be used for making meetings less dreadful. First … Continue reading
Posted in activism, competence
Tagged facilitation, Heidegger, movement-building, Pete Seeger, repertoires
1 Comment
The Dark Side of Flipcharts
I blogged (well, alright, ranted) on flip charts a while back, and how they can be used to control and funnel energy and intentions and set up barriers between what the facilitators want and expect and are happy with versus … Continue reading
Posted in humour, internet culture
Tagged chris corrigan, Darth Vader, facilitation, flip charts, johnnie moore, meetings, Star Wars
1 Comment
Of premature encapsulation, dialogue and… dire political hacks
Viv McWaters has a really fruitful post on “Facilitation with Confidence” We provide no agenda (just start and finish times), there’s no training manual that we follow, no lesson plans, no learning outcomes, no presentations, no tables, no assignments, no … Continue reading
Posted in activism, googlebinge
Tagged dialogue, facilitation, movement-building, networks, premature encapsulation, social movements, Viv McWaters
Leave a comment
Essential reading for facilitators
Chris Corrigan has just put up a great blog post called The art of giving instructions: 7 practices for facilitators I think one of the hardest things to do as a facilitator is master the art of giving instructions. Even … Continue reading
dwighttowers.wordpress.com 