facilitation

Great design is more important than ever for facilitation.

barbara pedersen consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation, online facilitation, Planning, Simplicity, strategic planning, virtual facilitation
Great design is more important than ever for facilitation.

Online, in-person, hybrid … oh, my! With COVID-19 continuing to change the way that people gather in meetings, workshops, and sessions, facilitators need to be more diligent than ever about design. Here’s a guide I prepared for myself last year

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Learning while “Zooming” over seven weeks

barbara pedersen consulting, Conversation, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation, Fun, governance, lessons, listening, nonprofit, online facilitation, Planning, Simplicity, strategic planning, Talking, technology, virtual, virtual facilitation
Learning while “Zooming” over seven weeks

I recently facilitated a seven-part series about nonprofit board governance and teamwork for a 12-member board of directors. The platform was Zoom, the sessions were 1½ hour each held weekly over seven weeks, and most of the participants had only

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Then and now: a story of facilitation design from my last pre-COVID-19 in-person session

barbara pedersen consulting, Conversation, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation, listening, online facilitation, Planning, Simplicity, technology, virtual, virtual facilitation
Then and now: a story of facilitation design from my last pre-COVID-19 in-person session

On March 5th, 2020, I facilitated my last in-person session before the reality of COVID-19 struck. It was a great session with the client saying: Thank you again for facilitating our event last Thursday. Our staff and external partners have

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