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change facilitating & hosting

On Action and Participatory Process

Sometimes, there are gatherings where next steps and action plans are important and necessary and are the reason why we are gathering.  But always?  No. ~ Chris Corrigan This post shares a compilation of insights from various thought leaders in the participatory process facilitation world to help shed light on when action planning could be […]

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facilitating & hosting

Don’t Do This Work Alone

Chatting with a friend who is getting ready for a second edition of a big event that brings together different generations for dialogue and collaboration to create a better future. I was reflecting on the first planning experience and suggested for this year’s core planning team that we ensure we have the different generations represented […]

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personal reflections

Restoring Justice, Restoring Community

A tragedy in Denver this week where a young man opened fire in a movie theatre. By chance I clicked on this article about one of the victims, Jessica Redfield, who was on Twitter that night. Her brother, Jordan Ghawi, blogged about the phone call from his mother and the events that transpired. Here are […]

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facilitating & hosting

Worldwide Conversation on Community

Last Friday I joined about 180 souls from around the world on a conference call in the Conversations for the 21st Century series. The topic for this call was Community and we began by hearing from three conversation starters (Maria Scordialos and Sarah Whiteley, Peter Block and Nancy White) who were asked to speak to […]