Slides to a two day workshop about hosting meetings and large events for communities and organisations. It\'s aimed at participant participation , experience and dialogue orientated.

1. The personal appraoch to working with groups Workshop & Meeting Facilitation

12. Powerful questions: • generates curiosity in the listener • stimulates reflective conversation • is thought-provoking • surfaces underlying assumptions • invites creativity and new possibilities • generates energy and forward movement • channels attention and focuses inquiry • stays with participants • touches a deep meaning • evokes more questions by David Isaacs The Art of the Question II

14. Process design : The U Otto Scharmer

15. Discovery “ What gives life?” (The best of what is) Appreciating Dream “ What might be?” (What is the world calling for) Envisioning Results Design “ What should be--the ideal?” Co-constructing Destiny “ How to empower, learn, and adjust/improvise?” Sustaining Appreciative Inquiry “ 4-D” Cycle Affirmative Topic Choice

16. Designing Spaces & Corners Create spaces that enhance the process you want. Be creative! Stimulate with names and design.

24. Version A: In our evaluation of a project in Bangladesh we noted a wide variance in the competence of individual villages to develop sustainable and effective solutions to problems encountered, for example developing low cost products. The lessons to be learned are that we should: • work against over-dependence on donors; • note and encourage entrepreneurial approaches to problems; • identify existing and repeatable good practices; • build and strengthen communication between villages to assist cross-fertilisation of ideas at the grassroots level. Version B: I was in a village last year working in water and sanitation. We were trying to promote the use of improved latrines, but could not produce concrete slabs and rings locally for a low cost. Somebody told me to visit the latrines of a lady in the village, so I went along and said, “Can I see your latrines?” She had made a latrine out of a clay pot with the bottom cut off. Then with a potter from the area she developed a small local production of bottomless pots, and they became the latrines. Ingenious. A few weeks later I was in another village and saw a hand pump; it was broken, just a small piece missing. So I said to the villagers, “Why don’t you repair your pump?” And they said, “Oh, we just wait for another donor to bring a new pump.” So I said, “Why don’t you visit the lady in the village over there? She finds ways of getting things done for herself.” The Power of Storytelling By the SDC

26. Rationality Think Strategy Power Logic Head Sensitivity Feel Dreams Intuition Beauty Body

39. Cross Pollination

40. It’s: the Inspiration Issue! Tribing Magazine for networkmobilisation Juni 2009 Tools for change Bright new ideas Provoking Questions Selling Don’t think! Look at my legs and hunger for this purse! It makes me a living. Like I care for anything else. My message is: Apathy is sexy.

41. Corporate Tribing It’s Us or Them What steps will protect our interests? We promise shareholder value. All noses in the same direction. Trust that all moves contribute. Enjoy. Love to play, experiment and cocreate with others Offer value for everyone Don’t talk, dance! Score or get fired!

43. 5 tricks to light a spark 5 tricks to light a spark Ask concrete questions Increase impact by letting go Keep it simple Stay compassionate Don’t take it too serious