The Difference Between Consent and Consensus: This month’s presentation and conversation will be recorded, because this question comes up so often! Making decisions by consent requires a different mindset and set of practices than most[...]
At its best, facilitating dialogue feels fluid and dynamic. You feel like you’re “on,” feedback is positive, and groups experience transformations in their perception of issues and in their solutions. Very often, though, groups experience[...]
A Resource for You: We want to pass along this resource from consulting firm FSG: Facilitating Intentional Group Learning: A Practical Guide to 21 Learning Activities Decision-making by consent requires that members of a circle[...]
As journalists and civic leaders call for “dialogue,” what do they really mean? They are referring to the process that physicist David Boehm proposed as “conversation in which participants attempt to reach a common understanding,[...]
Exploring Patterns for Dialogue part 2: This month, we will dive deeper into the exploration we began last month, with the Group Works Deck, a 91-card deck of exemplary patterns for what makes groups work.[...]
Capacity Building for Regional Food System Change in Rural-Urban Spaces: Considerations on Complexity, Hope and Social Justice. Tracy Kunkler is working with Kim Niewolny, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist at Virginia Tech, on a[...]
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