Conflict: How to Facilitate with Integrity and Ensure Safety
If you facilitate events, training or meetings, chances are you have had to navigate conflict or tough conversations. These are normal and unavoidable. And, they are not easy.
So, how do know when to shut them down and when to invite them in? How do we know how to ensure enough safety and respect for all present?
Performance Reviews Re-Imagined
A New On-Demand Training! Don’t dread it – change it! Performance reviews can help shift the narrative towards positive change to advance both individual and organizational development. Whether you have conducted performance reviews for years or this is a new...
Foundations of Dialogue Education (in Vermont) Added to Calendar – May, 2024
Many individuals and organizations embrace the philosophy that learning should be practical and engaging, but few can put that philosophy into practice consistently. This course will change all that. People leave this course with a whole new way of thinking about...
Episode 309: Jiu Jitsu & the Practice of Learning with Stewart Carroll
As practitioners of a learning-centered approach, we have much to learn from the physical discipline of jiu-jitsu, a grappling-based martial art derived from Judo. Professor Stewart Carroll owns Grail Jiu Jitsu in Carmel, NY and has been a practitioner of jiu jitsu...
Join us for a Winter Reflection Series
Winter offers us a slower pace to let go in the physical and emotional sense, so we can open ourselves up to what is next in our growth. Join GLP’s founder, Dr. Jane Vella, for a series of personal reflections on learning and how the world moves forward in continual...
Episode 308: Context is Key with ideas42
At ideas42, brain and behavioral science are not theoretical or abstract. In this episode, Cassie Taylor, Principal Behavioral Designer, shares how she uses human-centered design to apply and scale behavioral insights in post-secondary education. Cassie...
Episode 307: Cross-Cultural Facilitation Skills with IAF
Professional facilitators bring people together to discover creative solutions and resolve differences in ways that value inclusion while saving time, money and morale. The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) believe that there are some core competencies...
Episode 306: Executive Function’s Critical Role in Adult Learning with LaDonna Pavetti
In adult learning settings, we’ve seen that “sit and get” rarely works to help adults gain the knowledge they need to succeed. To understand what the latest in brain science tells us about why a traditional approach often fails adults, we talk to LaDonna Pavetti, Vice...
Interesting New Reflections from Jane
Our esteemed founder, Jane Vella, continues to write about a new country as she sees it from her vantage point of quiet and time. Learn a new word in Irenic Education, reflect on where you are as a teacher in The Pyramid System, celebrate the new ecology of a...
Episode 305: BONUS – Focus on the Who – 10k Small Businesses
GLP Chief Business Officer Rebecca Hutchins was accepted as a scholar to the 10,000 Small Businesses program through Goldman Sachs and Babson College. Rebecca noticed that Manuel Alexander, National Lead Faculty, facilitated in ways that felt very familiar to our...
Reflections from Jane on Tennis and More
Check out our Founder page for new musings from Jane in the "Personal Reflections" section. Stop by her back porch for a brief check in on what lessons one can learn from the international Tennis scene and explore a new potential qualitative research term in Emergence...
Episode 304: Fertile Ground – Facilitation + Leadership with Andres Marquez-Lara
As a long-time facilitator, improv actor, therapist and social entrepreneur, Andres Marquez-Lara, is in the business of healing. He channels this passion as Founder and CEO of UFacilitate where he helps purpose-driven leaders create spaces for deep connection,...