"A circle of women is a nurturing and sustaining resource that can become a spiritual and psychological wellspring tapped into whenever the circle meets." ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen, Urgent Message from Mother A friend tells the story of a time when she was in college. Her male professor asked the class for the qualities of […]
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 contribution. This axiom transforms those negative connotations into positive energy. The […]
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 pictures, drawing on visual metaphors to invite new […]
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, he deftly travelled from table to table inviting the […]
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 want the language to make some people feel excluded. Not everyone […]
(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 more averse to fighting each other than understanding? For […]
Blogger Saba Yassin teaching with GLP Senior Partner, Peter Noteboom, in Amman, Jordan. Why do we have to create a visual of our learning tasks? Can’t we just give out verbal instructions? Why do students need more than that? I can’t begin to count how many times I have heard these questions from my learners […]
This is the third in a series of interviews conducted by Joan Dempsey, GLP's Dialogue Education Community Director, with people who believe deeply in the power of dialogue to influence learning that lasts. Today's interview is with GLP Partner, Michael Culliton. Joan Dempsey (Joan): What’s your favorite axiom, and why? Michael Culliton (Michael): “The learning […]
Do you ever get emails asking you to spend a few minutes sharing your thoughts about evaluating a training? I do. And I'm always a little torn because I know whoever asks is eager for a few crisp tips. Instead, I grill them with questions! The rest of this short blog post is about questions: […]
Webinars offer a great alternative to holding face-to-face workshops as they save the costs and carbon associated with travel. However, they can easily become a sleep-inducing monologue in which a disembodied voice drones over a hypnotic barrage of never-ending PowerPoint slides. Meanwhile, the participants, their identities hidden by their remote connection, may be tempted to […]