I don’t know about you, but I find co-design of community awesome and often absolutely exhausting. It’s crucial that we — as a community — come into conversation and shape the group together. But there is a balance to be found. Often these processes can go on forever. They suck…

Bringing my question whilst being myself, listening with my experience, my identity, my context and my emotional state. When the starting point may already be laborious, in cases where we already know before sitting at the table that there is no shared language for example making it necessary for ground…

In a world full of distractions how are we doing at listening? When we listen what is it that we are hearing? What questions are we asking to better our understanding? I recently enrolled in the course by Krista Tippett on the Art of Conversation hosted on Acumen Academy. I…

No, you may not steal my personal time with my family for team building. For over a decade I used to work in the wealth management financial industry, it was the classic corporate office environment with a dress code, a noisy open office including clear occasional glass / aluminum dividers…

Online events boomed during COVID lockdowns and many organisations found themselves on a steep learning curve. One of the most challenging aspects is not finding speakers who can happily turn up in the slippers and pjs with guest appearances from babies to the inquisitive pets — no. …

Actually I am not a big fan of words like leader and leadership. What attracted me to this course is the word “Collective”. The course outcomes includes understanding of the Collective Canyon metaphor and the importance of the collective leadership approach. …

Actually I am not a big fan of words like leader and leadership. What attracted me to this course is the word “Collective”. The course outcomes includes understanding of the Collective Canyon metaphor and the importance of the collective leadership approach. Below is the second part of my review. Collective leadership This free course, Collective leadership, will give you an insight into the importance of how to be a more effective…www.open.edu

Actually I am not a big fan of words like leader and leadership. What attracted me to this course is the word “Collective”. The course outcomes includes understanding of the Collective Canyon metaphor and the importance of the collective leadership approach. Below is the first part of my review. Collective leadership This free course, Collective leadership, will give you an insight into the importance of how to be a more effective…www.open.edu

Networks in Action is a new monthly session series organised by Collective Mind, having had the pleasure of attending past session series last year I was intrigued about the new series and I must say it did not disappoint. Equity is a hot topic in all the communities I am…

In a world of increased remote work and freelance gig economy boosting your collaboration skills can be rewarding in more ways than one. Weave that network Freelance work can be a lonely road, skills around self disciple and a drive to move things forward are common in order to succeed along with a…

In these difficult times many permaculture educators are facing loss of income with cancelled and postponed face to face courses. …

During these last years I have worked in numerous remote teams and COVID has really accelerated a trend that was already picking up speed. In the meantime The Wisdom of Trauma was released pointing out perhaps what we knew all along, that trauma is present in all of us, some…

A compassionate take on Happy Money Story originally a game by Charlies Davies is an interesting tool / game that helps groups explore ways in which to share a pot of money by telling stories about it. It is in the crafting of those stories and in the observations we…

Engagement and onboarding of new contributors can be a struggle, especially in self organised spaces where there’s heavy reliance on volunteering hours and no top down management structure. For teams and organisations that are looking to expand it is important to communicate explicitly and clearly how new contributors can: navigate…

4 easy steps First you need to set up a Medium account — Please note that Medium’s Terms of Service applies to Facilitating for Future as it is a Medium publication. Make sure you read it before going through the next steps. Reach out to the publication to be added as an author…

Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz— avid archer, CEO of Kaleidos & Taiga and agile practitioner since 2007 hosted a webinar on the 17th November by the same title of this article. I have made some notes during the webinar to capture the most salient points and included supporting material for readers who are…

Organised within the Global Regeneration CoLab community on the 7th December was a one hour discussion calling all systems thinkers into opening the conversation on collaboration, weaving and increasing effectiveness of practitioners. Firstly — what is systems thinking? Systems thinking is a holistic way to investigate factors and interactions that could contribute to a possible outcome…

I really enjoyed the last Collective+Mind Community conversation, hosted by Seema Patel & Kerstin Tebbe founder of Collective+Mind and was thrilled to find out that they hold monthly community conversations with a repository of past sessions recordings and presentations shared here. …

Whether you are a new or seasoned facilitator before you start your session design you are bound to have kicked off with an idea or vision, this is the most exciting part of the creative process. Here’s some elements you will want to keep in mind as you design your…