Really loving the thoughts Chris Corrigan put together on the “wisdom of keeping the harvesting participatory”. His teaching of “we’re not planning a meeting, we’re planning a harvest” significantly shifted my design and facilitation of meetings, gatherings and more. This reminds me – I’ve been meaning to put together a post of some great widsomy bits on harvesting […]
Today was a great day. Played with some amazing people (waving to you @nancywhite and @avrilorloff) and a nifty super cool SMS webby-appy-tool called SMS Harvest (hello talented @lukec – his website is here). More to come on learnings around hosting and harvesting a cafe for 800ish people. Deep gratitute to Nancy and Avril for inviting me […]
I mentioned in my previous post that I wore the hat of Master Theme Weaver at the recent Western Cities Conference. Sharing more of the background on the role and how it came together… The idea of working with a group of Theme Catchers was one I got from Tenneson Woolf and his work with […]
Something I am conscious of in my work designing, hosting and harvesting participatory meetings, gatherings and conferences is ensuring that I am always playing at my edge somewhere in that work experience. It is how I am constantly learning and improving, terrifiying though it can be. And certainly not without it’s failures (more on a recently failure […]
The core planning team for the Western Cities Conference was game to jump into the online space with Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook – what we called Conversation Alley. This was purposeful. It fit the theme of the conference “Shift Happens” as the social media wave is certainly a shift for the HR field. This created a […]
Every week I find something in my RSS feeds that makes my heart soar a little. Today’s flight was thanks to Tenneson Woolf, who described Theme Catching & Theme Weaving. A few things I loved: Having a team of Theme Catchers who attend the sessions and catch the gist of things. Renaming the War Room […]