DESIGN DAILY. EAT HOURLY.

February 23, 2011 @ 9:30pm • Video Post • Tweet this • Share on Facebook

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facilitating a high-level envisioning workshop

imagining the preferred future,

to clarify the tasks of today.

February 23, 2011 @ 9:20pm • Video Post • Tweet this • Share on Facebook

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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

February 23, 2011 @ 8:46pm • Video Post • Tweet this • Share on Facebook

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facilitating an innovation workshop

building a shared understanding,

and envisioning a future to come.