Evaluation processes
4 June 2008Yesterday I facilitated a workshop about participatory evaluation for some folk working towards healthy communities. Here’s some of the processes I used. Visual Explorer: using photos to elicit people’s thoughts and insights about a particular topic The Story Spine: a story framework to help people tell stories about their experiences Full Circle: an active process…
Officially a fan of social networking
10 February 2008As of today (for no particular reason) I’m now officially a fan of social networking. When the Applied Improv group moved it’s web presence to ning I started to understand the potential of social networking. Since then I’ve set up four social networking sites of my own using CollectiveX – initially to play around and…
The Web’s Secrets
9 January 2008This TED talk by Jonathan Harris brings together technology, story, social science, evaluation, art and is entertaining to boot.
Evaluation of facilitation
2 November 2007My friend Andrew Rixon asked the Australasian Facilitators’ Network a question about the myths of facilitation. You can read what emerged here. One of my throw-away suggestions amongst some other myths I’d suggested was that ‘it’s possible to evaluate a facilitated workshop (or a facilitator even) with an end-of-workshop survey aka happy sheet’. It was…
Volunteering & Complexity & Story
20 August 2007Over the last couple of years I’ve been working with Victorian local and State Governments on the future of volunteering – so this project on the Future of Volunteering looks interesting. Not the least because it’s using narrative research processes, tools and proprietary software Sensemaker TM developed by Cognitive Edge to explore an issue of…