A dilemma
30 August 2009Keith Sawyer has an interesting post about collaboration and learning. He concludes with this statement: “So many of our most important learning experiences happen when we are in groups with others, and this is why understanding collaboration is central to the study of learning.” And therein lies the dilemma for those of us who work…
On writing a manifesto
25 August 2009Today Anne Pattillo and I wrote a manifesto about Facilitating With Confidence. It was a useful way to tease out our thinking and to surface the arguments that underpin what we do. It was also a great exercise in collaborative writing. Here’s how we did it. We started by capturing key thoughts – in any…
Rebooting
13 August 2009Last year, Anne Pattillo and I started up a new business together – Facilitating With Confidence. We’d tried our hands at facilitation training before and became frustrated when people learnt enough to ask us to come and do the tricky gigs, but didn’t have enough confidence to have a go themselves, even though we knew…
Me too!
5 August 2009Nancy White has a great post about how she uses social media. Here’s a summary with some of my favourite choconancy comments in italics. online community “Eminds” was where I learned that online relationships can be real, how they get real, and how they break and fail. online learning together But regardless of the technology,…
Best and worst conference experiences
22 July 2009Every now and again – about once a decade in fact – I agree to become involved in designing and delivering a conference. Why so infrequently? I have some specific requirements before I’m willing to devote considerable time and energy to putting on a conference. I need to believe in the conference topic. I need…
The joys of collaborating
21 July 2009Collaborating has become a bit of a buzz word, and as such, over-used. And I think we often use the term ‘collaborate’ when we really mean co-ordinate or co-operate. I really like Shawn Callahan’s use of the Cynefin framework to explain the difference between each of these. Basically it’s like this: When you’re operating in…