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June 15, 2005
June Gathering
This is where we met tonight - at the Metroparks Furnace Run, a wonderful facility with a year-round meeting space with heat and A/C and lake that costs $100 a day! Thanks to all who shared great food, resources, links, support and learning at our second quarterly facilitation gathering. Thanks especially to Kathleen Pichola who arranged the space and got out of cardiac emergency care in time to join the conversation (seriously).
From the 2 plus hour conversation on personal facilitation styles and "What do you hide behind your facilitation kimono that noone else sees?" came powerful reflections and dialogue on: when to follow and diverge from "the plan", the importance of facilitation as the creation of relationships, the power of deep listening and synthesizing diverse ideas into shared vision, creating the right questions, and facilitation as leadership.
At least two learning communities will emerge: 1) sharing tools and methods, and 2) the business of facilitation - what to charge, how to contract engagements and such. Stay tuned for more details on when and where these will meet.
Also stay tuned for the fall gathering, details yet to be decided. In the meantime, this is a very very rich community of talent. Tap into it any way you can.
Posted by jack at June 15, 2005 10:27 PM