I recently fulfilled a year-long ambition: to certify in the Lego® Serious Play® method. Ever since I read Michael Fearne’s book last year, I knew I wanted to train in it. Fairly new into freelancing, and with a fairly hefty price tag for the course, I sat on it for a year before…
Category: Facilitation
Lessons in Facilitation: The Power of Feedback
If you were asked what skill you’d use to survive the zombie apocalypse – what would you use? Would you negotiate? District them with jokes? Would you knit your way out? It was the exercise that caused the most laughter at the latest away day I ran. Exploring what left-field ways teams would…
Lessons in Online Facilitation
This week I ran an online event for a charity’s board of trustees, supporting them to review how the landscape around them had changed and how they anticipate it will continue to change, in order to refresh their business plan. A typical nearly-post pandemic event, it was via Zoom as the most practical…
Lessons in Facilitation
With my first freelance-d facilitation work under my belt, it’s worth celebrating the successes and being honest about the improvements needed. So, in no particular order, here’s what I learnt from that first event: 1. There’s never a final version See my earlier blog “navigating event design” for some more of the background…
Navigating Event Design
This week delivered me a few steep learning curves as I tentatively begin trying out the world of freelance, and one of the most interesting was navigating the delivery of a final product when there’s a range of stakeholders involved. So what was the event? My second ever client contracted me to facilitate…