Planning, plotting, collaborating, brainstorming for FacilitationCamp, London 20-21 August 2010
The main event page is here > http://barcamp.org/FacilitationCamp
DecisionLab description > http://decisionlab.org.uk/facilitation-camp/
Please add your thoughts, suggestions, inspiration here - let's play!
Please add you first name + surname or initial + date / time to any input you give :)
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Pre-event logistics:
Angela dP -- 10 August: We need to borrow a speaker system for FacilitationCamp. Anyone have suggestions? Please send them to me at: angela@decisionlab.org.uk. Thanks!
Content conversations:
Louis -- July:
1. It would be good to set some specific outcomes to help us structure / unstructure the day.
2. Theme for the day – clearly community is one – The Great Transition, The Blessed Unrest, but something that is inclusive for all... something to do with moving together into the future...
3. Promotional Literature to be produced well in advance, and for the day lots of process maps, cards, cheat-sheets, maybe some for sale. Could combine the two.
4. How do we demonstrate & involve people in the AFC?
5. 4 Powers corner. Quiet, deep, appreciative & transformative. Would be great in a Knights Templar-type tent made of muslin with a water fountain & coloured lights, cushions etc
6. From the very first “buzz-inducing” emails, newsletters, phone calls etc. I feel that it would be more engaging if we put some thought into presenting a menu of items that participants might want to see, with opportunity for ideas we may not have considered. This will offer prospective attendees more of a stake in the day, in line with our wider consultation in London & Reading, and be strongly invitational.
7. Invitational, also, is what the event needs to be from the moment people walk through the door. It would be great to give them some physical token that is of some use during the day, and might even be the key to a raffle for a special something (like a free session) that we would be offering.
8. As well as this, some kind of welcoming process or activity that is designed to produce delight. I have a mental picture of people progressing through two spirals of chairs, e.g. doing a ‘speed-dating’ introduction to each other (inner clockwise, outer anti-clockwise)
9. Some ‘set’ areas for ‘set’ activities.
10. An area of rolling facilitation, like a clinic.
11. A practise group (people who are having a break and need a laugh) for facilitators to do their stuff with – with maybe some scenarios in a hat (group of people who hate and therefore hide conflict, groups suspicious of facilitation) or individual roles (quiet person, talkative, interrupter, thick etc) – we can think of better examples...
12. A core FC Training area.
13. Rolling presentations (maybe projected on a wall sometimes led, sometimes just rolling).
14. Bursts of Ninja Facilitation.
15. Gold Fish Bowl of AFC participants doing our magic.
16. A chill-out area with cool music and cool drinks where people can interact spontaneously.
17. An expeditionary force to do the Evolution Lounge thing outdoors.
18. We expect to see ‘specialists’, e.g. Transitioners, Co-op-ers, Facilitators, Entrepreneurs, Activists in different fields, Geeks etc etc – wouldn’t it be great to offer processes designed to be specifically useful to different interest groups?
19. I expect you guys will be having conversations around this and how we may contact and appeal to different interest groups.
20. How will we do evaluations? How about as people leave areas there is something to write with and on all day, as well as end-of-session evaluations.
21. Wouldn’t it be great if Alan could sell some of his timing machines – not necessarily packaged and finished, but working. Maybe the geeks at the Skiff on tech night could take it on as a project?
22. Some kind of game(s) mapped out on the floor that allow the exploration of various disciplines in a physical way.
23. Contact me by Skype please tomorrow – Skype name bohemiancatastrophe
LOUIS@DECISIONLAB.ORG.UK
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FacilitationCamp Hosts planning & plotting morning session output (The Spring Fri 9 July 2010)
Quick sketch of today's meeting, with Sue B, Rowena C, Andrea G, Sofia B, Mamading C, Martin G:
Themes
Presence
Presents --gifts
Care for the carers
Coherent Vision
Open-Space No-End. The End is a new beginning.
How do we enable change?
How do we facilitate change in organisations, communities and society
Co-creating change
(Radical Transformation of everything we do)
a) Create Community Or b) Enable Change vs (c) Integration of two
Hothousing change agents
Change agent skills and strategies
What would bring people together to play?
How do we create a community of facilities?
Come and play, share skills, we need you.
Recognise the imminent process of activists --
Action Ideas
Bath Action Research -- academics
PRASDA list
Paul Barber (Rowena)
Surrey University (Rowena)
Clowns
Who can we talk to about this?
Process Photography
Video
Sponsorship
Moving Sounds
Bar Camp
Anyone with skills
Phelim McDermott
Surrey Masters Rachel
Oxford Management Associates
Theatre for change in organisations
SOL
The Hub
Andrea integrity process agenda
RSA animate
Anyone with skills
3 levels: Bare essentials, nice to have, fantasy
AoH -- graphic facilitation
Plan the cookbook -- John Heron -- Cooperative Enquiry
Rachel West. Clowning for facilitators.
TO BE FURTHER EDITED & ORGANISED
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Another Output from the Facilitation Camp Planning Day:
Martin G, Sofia B, Nate W, and Mamading C attended the UK Facilitator Network's workshop in Reading on July 9th, where we asked the participants some questions, and shared with them our vision for Facilitation Camp, and got some feedback
Here are their answers to our questions.
Flipchart Notes: Answers by the group to 4 questions, as listed here:
- What do you love?
- What do you want to teach/share?
- What do you want to learn
- Who do you want to meet?
What to do you love?
Unlocking performance in others
The instant recognition of progress by a group
Witnessing a group achieve something they never though possible
Working with people from diverse backgrounds
Breaking down barriers
Individuals becoming a group
Baring souls for connection
When the whole group is in flow and getting on and don't need me
Sustained connection
Meeting people
Enabling people to have conversations about things that matter
Taking risks when they work
Unpredictability
When it works
Make things happen
Helping groups work through to conclusions and results
Group Outcome
What do you want to teach/share?
How can the IAF competencies help?
Experience/passion
Techniques/pinpoint facilitation process/the different responses people have to data
Sensing (cognitive)
Managing yourself in order to optimise output from others
Multi-cultural perspectives
Systemic Approaches
Ice-breakers
That approaches/skillsets can cross contexts: IT -> Arts -> Learning
What do you want to learn?
Storytelling
Something new to challenge me
How to explain to people what a facilitator does
How to put a business case together for facilitators
More 'virtual' techniques
More techniques for dealing with conflict in groups
Exciting techniques
Experience from others
Who is in the room
How to get business
Who do you want to meet
My next client
People who approach facilitation differently
Other freelance facilitators
Some young people who want to learn how to facilitate
Inspirational facilitators
Potential customers (trade fair?)
Collaborators
