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A Facilitation Moment: a challenge by a participant

barbara pedersen July 28, 2023July 28, 2023 Belonging, collaboration, community, complexity, consulting, Conversation, design, Dialogue, Discussion, Diversity, Equity, facilitation, fierce conversations, in-person facilitation, Inclusion, listening, nonprofit, online facilitation, Planning, silence, Simplicity, strategic planning

A facilitation moment. You know it! You are facilitating a group and this happens. ➡ A participant forcefully challenges an activity.➡ A participant challenges you or someone else about an idea.➡ A individual stands up and yells at everyone.And so

A beautiful object to enhance conversations

barbara pedersen April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 consulting, Conversation, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation, Fun, listening, mandala, nonprofit, online facilitation, silence, Simplicity, strategic planning, virtual, virtual facilitation, Visual facilitation

“Bring them again!” I often place these globe-like metal objects on the tables at in-person sessions I facilitate. Participants love them. Their enthusiasm inspires me to share ideas and activities about ways I use the objects as an aid to

Moving facilitation from “for the people” to “by the people”

barbara pedersen March 3, 2020 consulting, Conversation, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation, lessons, listening

In June 2019, I celebrated 25 years in my facilitation business. Yippee!! Over the past eight months, I have reflected on those years: what I learned, what I gained, what I contributed, what I believed, and how I acted then

Untangling the yarn … priority setting through “simple” facilitation

barbara pedersen January 30, 2020 complexity, Conversation, Dialogue, Discussion, facilitation, lessons, listening, Planning, Simplicity, strategic planning

“We could never have done this ourselves at a regular Board meeting,” said the chair of a non-profit society. One definition of facilitating is “to make an action or process easy or easier”. I have always thought this definition is

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