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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
In the manner of an Open Space facilitator – invisible, no fuss. His contribution to every single World Open Space on Open Space – USA, Canada, Germany, Australia, ‘Swenmark’, India, Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan. I sit here writing this post through my tears as I remember my dear friend and mentor Brian Bainbridge, who died yesterday morning, in his sleep, apparently of a heart attack. Brian was a Catholic priest.
 
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
That was also the year we gathered experts from across the US and Canada to help us develop the Consultants Curriculum at the Institute.  Spearheaded, developed and facilitating monthly Twitter chat for consultants to Community Benefit organizations (#NPCons). • Initiation and ongoing facilitation of the CDI discussion group at Facebook. • In yesterday’s post, I shared the ambitious goals we had set two years ago, to lay the groundwork for the Community-Driven Institute.  Having founded two prior organizations, we knew it was necessary to lay that firm foundation while
 
Sunday, December 27, 2009
The Government of Canada has too much information. Do we need to do some repair to our democratic institutions to facilitate buy-in, or are we replacing that with all of this participatory media? The following are excerpts from an interesting interview with Canadian open government advocate David Eaves, by the Public Policy & Governance Review , (Vol. 1, No.
 

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One of the joys of facilitation is the opportunity to work across organisations and communities and observe similarities and differences. And I wondered what some of my friends and colleagues across the globe were noticing about facilitation, particularly the trends, and their hopes for facilitation in 2009. So a big shout out to Bob Dick , Brisbane, Australia; Jo Nelson , Toronto, ICA Canada; Nancy White , Seattle, USA; I’ve ve noticed that there are a lot more similarities, especially in the challenges and aspirations, than differences.
In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. September 25, 2008 Facilitation, Objectivity, Worldviews, Innovation and Coping with Complex Problems I mon my way from San Jose to Vancouver and thence to Bowen Island for acourse on The
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Back in 2006 BB (Before Blogging) I attended a training course for facilitators on the role of facilitation in disaster recovery. At the time I said it was probably the most significant training I’d ever done as a facilitator. wrote an article for the Australasian Facilitators’ Network , to debrief my experience and to share what I’d learnt with others. I I
As highway 20 heads up towards Williams Lake, it climbs the “hill” a steep grade of narrow switch backs with no guard rail, that is said by some to be the most terrifying drive in Canada.  If Tags: Conversation Design Facilitation First Nations Invitation Leadership Open Space World Caf “My grandmother was the one that inspired me,” said my friend Liz over lunch at the Valley Inn in Bella Coola.  “She She said that the world was once all together, and then it cam apart and one day it will be all together again.  So
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In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. September 27, 2007 Introducing Social Networking Tools and Social Networking Analysis to Business: What To Do I attended a meeting yesterday of a self-managed KM group facilitated by the
Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. March 2005 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Feb Apr MADE IN CANADA
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