Facilitators helping communities recover
27 February 2009Facilitator n. A person who makes a group’s work easier by structuring and guiding the participation of group members. Fran Rees, The Facilitator Excellence Handbook, Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer, 1998, page 11. Bushfires, emergency response, media coverage, tears, volunteers, support, recovery, resettling, hugs, rebuilding. Then what? How do individuals and communities…
Role of facilitation in disaster recovery
13 February 2009Back 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. I wrote an article for the Australasian Facilitators’ Network, to debrief my experience and to share…
Time for Action 2
9 February 2009Thanks to everyone who has so far offered support – and even if you haven’t or can’t, thanks for being there. It’s early days so I’ll simply keep a register of people who are interested in helping and pass that along to relevant organisations. I’ll let you know what I’m doing. Feel free to pass…
Time for action
8 February 2009What a difference a day makes. Many thousands of Victorians did not have a good weekend. They now face the devastation of bush fires that swept the State on Saturday in extraordinarily hot weather, fuelled by gale force winds. Whole townships have been destroyed, and many, many lives lost. It’s hard not to feel overwhelmed…
Inspiration and motivation
24 January 2009Feeling a bit down in the dumps the other day and unable to get myself motivated, I started writing this post. I’ve always understood inspiration to be external and motivation to be internal. I’m finding lots to inspire me on the web, and in the world. What I’m struggling with is motivation. Any suggestions? And…