What is completion in facilitation terms? Completion is one of the most powerful distinctions in facilitation. At its simplest, completion means finishing something with nothing left undone. It is meeting the group’s purpose and tying up all the loose ends so that people can move forward with clarity and commitment. My colleague Dale Hunter often … Continue reading Completion: Freeing up a group to move forward
Mining the Gold – Workshop Reflection At the Resonance Festival held north of Auckland on 20-22 March, we had the privilege of offering our workshop Mining the Gold – A Whole-person Approach to Active Listening with participants who brought their openness, curiosity, and presence to the experience. Together with Zenergy Trainers Dan Ducker and Caroline … Continue reading Wisdom Talks @ Resonance – A Whole-person Approach to Active Listening
Following on from my previous posting on the facilitator distinction of safety, another two important distinctions we explore in the Stage 2: Essence of Facilitation training programme and also in Dale Hunter et al.’s The Essence of Facilitation is Fearlessness and Compassion. The distinctions of Fearlessness and Compassion are the focus of today’s discussion as … Continue reading Fearlessness and Compassion
Following on from my previous posting On Distinguishing for facilitators, two important distinctions we explore in the Stage 2: Essence of Facilitation training programme are safety and trust. Trust and Safety are necessary for a group to succeed. Both also need to be maintained throughout the stages of a group’s development (see Tuckman & Jensen’s … Continue reading Safety On
Honoured to present my co-authored paper with Bikash Pokhrel this week and to facilitate the discussion on digital government challenges in developing countries at the Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-57) hosted at the Hilton in Honolulu by the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Sharing insights drawn from … Continue reading Facilitating Digital Government in Developing Nations
Zenergy Masterclasses are opportunities to explore emergence within a group context. It’s common at the Masterclasses to experience the sensation of being on the edge of something mysterious, exciting and a little bit dangerous.
Full Text PDF 324kb A chapter by Dale Hunter and Stephen J. Thorpe published in Wright, D., & Hill, S.B. (Eds.), Social Ecology and Education: Transforming Worldviews and Practices (pp. 89-100). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003033462 Abstract In this chapter, The Gift of Presence in Groups, we describe our journey of discovery into the transformative nature of presence … Continue reading The Gift of Presence in Groups: An Unfolding Story of Transformative Learning
To effectively facilitate peer support and development groups requires a combination of intentionality, structure, purpose and a supportive culture. Peer support and development support groups work best when they are relatively small and contain six or less people in size. A small group of people that you consider are your peers can come together around … Continue reading Facilitating Peer Support Groups and Peer Development Groups
Zenergy Global will offer several workshops at the next AFN conference taking place at La Trobe University, in Bundoora / Wurundjeri Country, Melbourne, Australia from Monday 26 to Wednesday 28th of November 2018.
Zenergy Director Dr Stephen Thorpe has launched a pioneering IT Project Management Masters Degree at AUT. The programme includes group facilitation skills as 1 of the 3 core papers.
