Creativity • Integrity • Connection
Orla is heading to the ‘Big Smoke’ to train one of her favourite courses: Group Facilitation Methods This ICA:UK’s core course, taken by more than 200 people each year. You will learn the theory of the Technology of Participation methods and practice using them in a supportive learning environment. The course is interactive and fun, and […]
Facing Reality | Claiming Leadership | Restoring Sanity We are proud to co-sponsor a rare one day seminar on November 9th 2017 by Meg Wheatley, a woman who has inspired a generation of leaders to step forward and serve. She will lead a deep then-and-now inquiry into how we move forward in these troubled times. […]
Internationally, across the public, private and voluntary sector, we spend up to 17 hours a week in meetings. 32% of all meetings are virtual (38% for employees under 35 years old) 67% of employees report that more than half the meetings they attend are not of value! Yet what proportion of our training and facilitation […]
Orla is delighted to have become an INTRAC associate. She is lead trainer on the forthcoming online M&E course. This marries her skills in monitoring and evaluation, and online facilitation, beautifully, and she’s really looking forward to the next course, which starts on June 12th. This 4 week (part time) course is aimed at participants […]
There’s a great review by Bruce of the book The Consultant’s Journey (Roger Harrison) over on Bruce’s blog, Motive Means and Opportunity
There are still spaces available on ICA:UK’s Group Facilitation Methods training in Manchester on 17th -18th November, with Orla as the trainer. Booking link here http://www.ica-uk.org.uk/facilitation-training/group-facilitation-methods-gfm
I have participated in International Facilitation Week virtually for several years by presenting at (and occasionally helping to organise) the Virtual Facilitation Unconference. Though there isn’t a virtual conference in 2016, there are some really interesting virtual events scheduled globally – see the programme here. This year, though, I was delighted to have the opportunity to […]
In Framework we place great emphasis on reviewing and learning from our work: this is particularly salient at the moment as each of us works with our Framework supervisor to amass feedback for our annual review. Some of our resources on reflective practice are available here. In our development days, we generally include ‘clinics’ to […]
By coincidence, a couple of weeks ago, I was researching the concept of “othering” – “to view or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself”. The evolution of this concept can be traced through a number of philosophers, sociologists and pyschologists, from Hegel, through De Beauvoir, and […]
I have just become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. It’s hard to know how significant this is. On the one hand, there’s an element of the old Groucho Marx quote “I wouldn’t want to be a member of any club which would have me”, but on the other hand, I’m excited at […]
I’m delighted to share that insights from the two virtual convenings I facilitated with SARELL are now being hosted as a case study on the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Digital hub. The convenings explored the nature of mistrust in social platforms, and proposed actionable strategies for rebuilding user wellbeing and trust
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