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International Facilitation Week, October 15-21

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International Facilitation Week (IFW) is being observed around the world, October 15-21.   The purpose is to showcase the power of facilitation to both new and existing audiences and to create a sense of community among facilitators and their groups worldwide. Here is a brief animated video What Do Facilitators Do?

Graduates of the Journey of Facilitation and Collaboration will recognize several familiar archetypes!

The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) sponsors this annual week and provides a menu of events going on this week throughout the world. Congratulations to facilitators across the globe who use their talents in the service of helping groups achieve their goals!

LGE Seeks B Corp Certification: Why It Matters

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Guest Blogger M. R. Stevens, Ph.D., explains why it matters that Living Giving Enterprises, the sponsor of the Journey-Brand workshops, is up for B Corp Certification. Stevens has recently come on board as an instructor for the Journey of Facilitation and Collaboration (JOFC).

We are at the early stages of one of the most important trends of our lifetime: the growing global movement of people using business as a force for good. This movement is everywhere and has many leaders throughout the world. Some are small businesses; some are multinationals. Some use business to reduce poverty; some to restore the environment. All are creating meaningful work with dignity and purpose.

—B Lab—

This past February, Wisconsin joined 33 other states and the District of Columbia in allowing corporations to charter themselves as “benefit corporations.” This charter option enables corporations to integrate their commitment to creating public benefit into their corporate purpose. [Read more…] about LGE Seeks B Corp Certification: Why It Matters

5 Reasons Facilitators Need to Add Visuals to their Practice

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Guest Blogger Julie Swanson is the owner of What’s Possible Now, dedicated to helping individuals and groups build capacity in communications, strategic narrative, visual thinking and emergent learning design. Julie brings over 25 years of experience in adult education and communication to her work of creating change for a better future for all.

1. Leverage Human Strengths.

Visuals capture our attention. They help us make sense of the world easier and faster.   With visuals, you can create conditions so participants say “I see what you mean.” [Read more…] about 5 Reasons Facilitators Need to Add Visuals to their Practice

Virtual Meetings That Get Results

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Guest blogger Janice Belgreden is a seasoned virtual meeting facilitator. Her virtual meetings make everyone feel like it’s important that they are there (and it is!). Janice recently came on board as an instructor for the Journey of Facilitation and Collaboration (JOFC).

Have you ever facilitated a virtual meeting where you felt like your biggest job was to tame a beast that had nothing to do with the meeting’s actual goals? I have, and the whole experience was angst-producing. Some of the issues? Technology glitches caused frustration and outside distractions were common. Making connections between team members was difficult and participants were hesitant to actively engage. I found myself putting all my energy into juggling management of the technology, the agenda and the participants and then forgetting to tune into what was going on in me. The disorientation I felt when things went wrong ended up impacting my whole team. [Read more…] about Virtual Meetings That Get Results

Harness the Power of the Visual to Create Change

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Most of us rely heavily on words to get our message across. We may spend much time and energy creating a perfect memo or email. Yet visuals—pictures, photos, diagrams, and now videos—can say it more powerfully than words on a page.

Visuals are a universal language that can transcend culture and linguistic barriers. Think about the universal symbols for important things. No translation needed!

   

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Conflict Resolution With Integral Facilitation

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Guest author Harry Webne-Behrman is a co-founder and instructor of the 5-day Journey of Facilitation & Collaboration. He has been a professional mediator for over 30 years.

Among the key elements of the Journey of Facilitation & Collaboration (JOFC) is the way we approach intervention, especially intervening in conflictive issues that arise. We offer the “4 P’s of Intervention” (permission, perception, predicament, and process) and then build upon it with a conflict management and mediation process that integrates many of our discoveries from the first three days of the 5-day workshop. In this essay, I want to build upon those understandings and delve more deeply into the opportunities to understand how Conflict Resolution efforts can be enhanced through an Integral approach. [Read more…] about Conflict Resolution With Integral Facilitation

Successful Change Leaders Recognize Grief

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By Kathleen A. Paris, Ph.D.

I don’t know of any organization that isn’t in the process of some kind of change—adding or removing products and services, shifting offices, reorganizing, even reducing the labor force. In general, it’s a good thing for an organization to be dynamic and adaptable to the ever-changing environment.

In a change process, visions of lofty goals and KPIs, may be dancing in a leader’s head. But what are the employees thinking? They may feel troubled, sorrowful, and anxious. Will I lose my job? How will my routine change? Will I lose my friends here? How will I get my children to and from school? Will I be able to do it? How is my life going to change?

So rather than trying to talk people out of their worries, a more effective strategy is to acknowledge that people going through change frequently experience a grieving process. [Read more…] about Successful Change Leaders Recognize Grief

JOFC Video

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