

parts of the whole
designing an outline for thesis document writing.
facilitating a high-level envisioning workshop
imagining the preferred future,
to clarify the tasks of today.
some thoughts on facilitating conversations / workshops…
what makes design facilitation uniquely challenging?
spider diagramming to uncover some answers / insights:
• building trust quickly in a new group setting (outsider vs insider)
• not everyone is comfortable with creative collaboration
• grasping emergent ideas and themes requires keen sensitivity
• generating new thinking is messy and chaotic—another source of discomfort
• perhaps mostly importantly, facilitator must be very self-aware to be a/effective
facilitating an innovation workshop
building a shared understanding,
and envisioning a future to come.
autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward [are] the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
— © Malcolm Gladwell | Outliers
Where [people] come from matters. They’re products of particular places and environments.
— © Malcolm Gladwell | Outliers
Pete Eckert, blind photographer
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