Making the path by walking
There’s no blueprint for bringing about sustainable development. As a species, we’ve never made the transformation from globalised unsustainability to a sustainable society—so we don’t, yet, know how we’ll do it.
We have to experiment. We have to take a leap of faith. We have to do something. And all the time, we have to be wonderfully and patiently alert to the impact our experiments are having. We have to just sit there.
How shall we do both?
From the blog
Real-life facilitation : dancing with ‘preparation’ and ‘responsiveness’
Frequently, my work involves large group workshops and teams of willing volunteers acting as support facilitators. They may be drawn from the client team or from the wider consultant team. They are often technical specialists or traditional communications specialists, and sometimes – but not always - they have facilitation experience.
In a recent workshop, I was faced with quite a challenge…
