by glpadmin | Mar 23, 2014 | Speaking of Dialogue
(Note from GLP: We hope you enjoy learning a bit about our friends at Meta-Culture in India!) How do you get people to listen to each other’s side of the story when, because of a number of social, cultural, and historic reasons, different groups have been...
by glpadmin | Mar 23, 2014 | Speaking of Dialogue
Global Learning Partners (GLP): What’s your favorite axiom, and why? Valerie Uccellani (Val): Pray for Doubt. Funny. I didn’t used to like this one. In fact, when we taught axioms in the introductory course, I sometimes deleted it from the binder; I didn’t...
by glpadmin | Mar 23, 2014 | Speaking of Dialogue
Unbelievably to me, and even at first unnoticed by me in the large ballroom style conference room that was being productive and facilitated through dialogue, the facilitator was blind, unable to see the people and setting in the room with his eyes. Led at the elbow,...
by glpadmin | Mar 24, 2014 | Speaking of Dialogue
This is the second of a two-part series. Read part one here. I am a visual learner so by preference (teaching and facilitating in the way I like to learn) I tend to prioritize visual learning when designing learning experiences: showing what I mean using diagrams and...
by glpadmin | Mar 24, 2014 | Speaking of Dialogue
What’s your favorite axiom, and why? My favorite axiom is “pray for doubt”. The reason why it is my favorite is that it is both counter-intuitive and powerful. It is counter-intuitive because often facilitators avoid or dread doubt, and see it as a negative...