Program Summaries

Organizational Branding Takeaways 

Cliffhangers 2016 - In which we describe a difficult situation where the client or the group pulled the rug out from under the facilitator in the middle of the facilitation!  What would you have done??

Rethinking How we Learn Together:Emergent Learning


Systems Thinking - When you try to understand what's happening around a particular problem, what are the limitations of looking at:
  • events (What happened?) 
  • trends (What's been happening?)
  • the underlying structure and the relationships between the different parts of the system, i.e. Why has that been happening?
World Cafe Harvested ideas
  • What are the essential qualities of a facilitator and why are they important?
  • What advice would you give to a new facilitator?
Critic Genealogy
We all have inner voices, such as an inner critic, who makes snide comments while sitting on our shoulder, and a creative inner voice - our personal cheerleader. See how we made puppets to represent our inner critics!!


Merging Cultures
In Part 1 of this workshop we did a simulation in which we explored the dynamics that typically happen when culturally diverse people enter an existing system. In Part 2 we looked at a framework for creating constructive outcomes of merging cultures.


Storytelling Lab
How compelling and engaging are your stories? Do they have a beginning, middle and an end?  We can never get enough practice in storytelling, right?!

Facilitating Change with Metaphors
In which we explore how metaphors can help groups understand varying perspectives, stimulate creativity and build teamwork.  Click to see the maps we created.


Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument



Butterfly Framework of Complex Human Systems 
In your consulting, are you working more on the business and social context, or more on the deeper individual level?