Have you participated in a meeting or event lately where, instead of starting with an overview of the agenda, you started by taking breaths together? If you haven’t yet, you might soon. Embodiment practices are increasing as a form of self-care and healing, and they can be helpful in supporting learning and facilitation. At Vermont […]
Cultivating a culture of healthy feedback – receiving and offering it – takes time and intentional work in multiple areas. It can begin during onboarding and run through to the exit interview. Leaders can model healthy feedback processes and ensure commitment at all levels of an organization. It can take place in one-on-one settings as […]
I’ve been working with the principles and practices of Dialogue Education for more than a decade. I’ve come to feel as if too little has been said about the content of our courses, workshops, and classes — how we find content, how we shape it, how we select it, and how we weave it into […]
For years, GLP’s core course (currently “Foundations of Dialogue Education”) included a set of guidelines around receiving and offering* feedback as well as a carefully sequenced feedback model. This approach to feedback has taken root and spread across GLP culture. Sample Feedback Guidelines: Be lavish, sincere, and specific in our affirmations. Offer suggestions in the […]
I intentionally design to maximize learning. I conduct a needs assessment, asking select questions of participants and stakeholders, studying websites and key documents, and observing events and meetings of the client and small groups. I check my assumptions and work to align the steps of design to ensure the best content is being offered at […]
I work in a closed society*. My colleagues do as well. In fact, we are all from the country in which we work and are passionate about what we do. We facilitate learning sessions with individuals in small and large communities, from grassroot organizations and concerned civil servants, victims as well as perpetrators of violence, […]
Learning collectively is vital to addressing the shared challenges we face around the globe. A Community of Practice can be a powerful vehicle for collective learning. But it’s not straightforward, and there are many challenges to enabling and sustaining a learning community. From 2013 to 2016, I was the convener of a Community of Practice […]
Do you sometimes feel alone in your work? Do you often wish you could share your big achievements and your tough challenges with someone else? Do you sometimes wish you had someone who could give you the right tool for a specific problem? Do you wonder how you can have regular professional development with like-minded […]
Talking circles have long been used by Indigenous Peoples in Canada, the US and around the world. They are also known as ‘sharing circles’. They are used to ensure each individual who has gathered in a place has a voice and is fully heard. It is used at the start of a gathering, in the […]
How do you turn a concept into a useful visual to teach and reinforce that concept over time? How do you take that visual off the page so that people can interact and learn from it? Here’s a story to illustrate how you might do just that. We hope it inspires you with its simplicity. […]