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About the Seminar
Topics from the Seminar Jim Rough, Instructor Other Jim Rough & Assoc., Inc. |
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Dynamic Facilitation Skills
www.DynamicFacilitation.com
Dynamic Facilitation is the essence of leadership, where one person helps others face difficult issues creatively and collaboratively and achieve unanimous, win/win solutions. It achieves this magic by eliciting a nonlinear, heartfelt, transformational quality of thinking called "choice-creating" — vs. "decision-making" or "problem-solving" or "creative problem-solving."
Dynamic Facilitation doesn't require that participants learn new steps or commit to certain behaviors. People can just be themselves. The dynamic facilitator works with each person's natural inclinations and genius, helping all come together with a better solution in faster time. The process builds trust and new levels of capability in each person. It's different than traditional forms of facilitation.
You can use Dynamic Facilitation in many different areas ... building teams, conflict resolution, transformational leadership, communication, education, personal transformation, community dialogue, innovation, trust-building, coaching, and especially for addressing big impossble-seeming issues. It opens new doors of possibility for large organizations, communities and even democracy through a new whole-system change process known as the "Wisdom Council". The Wisdom Council process is now being used to involve and empower employees, citizens, conference participants, and members of organizations in many parts of the world.
| A mind-expanding experience of an alternative approach to group discussion and problem-solving. Carol Chetkovich, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government |
Using Dynamic Facilitation
1. Meetings are engaging, respectful and creative.
2. The real problems are discovered, addressed and solved.
3. People can be themselves and not hold back. There is no need to train participants.
4. The group can tackle and solve impossible problems and become empowered.
5. The group reaches real consensus rapidly, without compromising individuality.
6. Participants build the sense of community, trust and commitment -- a “We."
7. Individuals grow in capability.
8. The system grows in capability.
Learn more about Dynamic Facilitation
Learn more about Choice-creating
Learn more about the seminar
See the CARTOON PRESENTATION on Dynamic Facilitation prepared by Michael Erickson, Boeing Cartoonist.
Dynamic Facilitation opens new doors of possibility
- Facilitating Important Meetings (e.g. Strategic Planning, Problem-solving, Crisis management, Creative Problem-solving, Conflict Resolution, Visioning).
— Hear a descriptive audio interview Understanding Dynamic Facilitation
- Solving "Impossible" Problems (...or "messes," "dragons," or "wicked" issues)
— See the article "How to Solve Impossible Problems"
- Organizational Transformation (Dynamic Facilitation makes possible new ways to transform large systems)
— See the article "The Circle Organization: Structuring for collective wisdom."
It also works great for ...
- Ordinary Meetings (Staff meetings, Information sharing, Decision-making)
— See more information on Dynamic Facilitation
- Trust-building and Team-building
— For example, see the article "Using Crises and Teams to Turn on a System" ( pdf file)
- Conflict Resolution/Mediation
— Many mediators and people interested in conflict resolution come to the Dynamic Facilitation Seminar. It's a whole new approach to helping people work out their difficulties in an atmosphere of mutual trust and appreciation. See the article "Leaders Slay Dragons Don't They?"
- Dialogue
— See a description of Dialogue and Dynamic Facilitation
- Consensus-building
—See a description of "Consensus-building" vs. Dynamic Facilitation.
- Thinking Skills (Critical thinking, Systems thinking, Creative thinking, and Transformational thinking)
— See the article on Levels of Thinking (pdf file) and a description of Choice-creating, the highest level
- Public Participation
— For example see Carl's story facilitating a library meeting.
- Education
— Learn about the experiment with 7th and 8th graders, see In Left Field
- Emergent Leadership (Dynamic Facilitation is how one person can help people address the most important issues collaboratively and creatively, where people come together in a "We".)
— See the Powerpoint show created by Michael Erickson, Boeing Cartoonist.
- Reinventing democracy (Dynamic Facilitation offers new possibilities for making true democracy possible.)
— See the book by Jim Rough, Society's Breakthrough! Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
— Discover the exciting good news about how Dynamic Facilitation and the Wisdom Council process may be used to generate new levels of collective intelligence in our democracy. The nonprofit organization, Center for Wise Democracy (www.WiseDemocracy.org), is based on this work.
- Innovation
— For examples of different types of innovation using Dynamic Facilitation see the article Creative Choices: Breakthroughs in Thinking.
- Improving conferences
—Conferences provide plenary speakers, breakout sessions, and a great chance to network. Imagine if , without disrupting this, everyone at the conference could also be involved in deep dialogue about the most crucial issues and make important headway together. Read about one exciting experiment with making this happen at the Conference: The Great Turning.
More testimonials ...
Wow, this stuff really works!!! I've only used DF once so far - it was with our corporate planning team and they're skeptical about everything! It was a four-hour strategy session focused on the same topic we've dealt with the last three years - "why we can't get past the barriers to break into a targeted new market." But this time the problem was properly defined (and a big part of the problem is us - the planning team!!!), we discussed hidden agendas, egos, etc., the team renewed their commitment to the strategy, and we are moving forward with some pretty creative solutions...(Roger Shaffer, FCC Services)
I have been modeling Dynamic Facilitation on a daily basis for the various teams of which I am a member. The folks I deal with on a day-to-day basis are executives, managers, project managers, other analysts, and coordinators engaged in a myriad of information technology related projects. I have been asked on several occasions how I achieve such positive results in my work. My response always begins with a description of … the life-changing Dynamic Facilitation principles…. (Scott Riordan, State of Oregon)
From my experience, the "Dynamic Facilitation" technique is THE most powerful one out there. Not only is it FAST, but it's also very "post modern" in that it purposely assists (or facilitates) the use of the creative side of the brain, in concert with the more familiar analytical and linear/procedural "left brain" stuff we do all the time. (Michael Erickson, Major US Aerospace Company)
... I feel very enthusiastic about this DF stuff for a variety of reasons. Chief among them, I saw a couple of hard boiled production types find their motivation, even though both had reasons to be skeptical from the outset. I also saw two new team members, one of whom announced at the outset that she was only going to sit on the sidelines and take notes, become actively engaged in the process along with their higher seniority colleagues. (Sterling Newberry, The Open Door Conflict Management Service)
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