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The prevailing view in organisations (and among their leaders) is that change processes are rational challenges — a question of getting from A to B wi...

Alison Coward, Rebecca Sutherns and Sunni Brown are each exceptional facilitators in their own right, but that doesn’t mean they see things in exactly...

Kirsten Clacey is a facilitator and coach, currently Head of Facilitation at Automattic’s Learn Division, with some brilliant perspectives on process,...

We’ve had plenty of practice with online meetings by now; we have fallen into the common trapdoors and know how to avoid them in the future. But is ef...

Activists are the fuel behind social change. Without them, we would stall and stutter and stop making progress. These are people who are driven by pas...

Romy Alexandra is a one-woman revolution in Experiential Learning, driven by a passion for turning dull events into genuinely memorable and long-lasti...

Why is it that so many groups come together with a shared goal… and fail to make any meaningful progress? This is the question that’s plagued Deb Mas...

Facilitation can be a messy business; what can we do to clean it up? Judy Rees, who’s been working with groups for almost 20 years, thinks the answer...

They say it takes a lifetime to build and a second to break… Trust is priceless to teams and the organisations in which they exist, so why is it so of...

Keynote speaker, published author, zen student, innovator-in-residence, and facilitator — Sunni Brown has a whole village’s worth of knowledge, but, s...

What emerges when you survey 1,124 facilitators from 93 countries? The State of Facilitation — a snapshot of our profession for the year and a report ...

Do you have a presence when you facilitate? (Hint: we all do, whether we mean to or not!) The thing is, not all of us know it or practice it. Our pre...

A difficult conversation can take many forms — emotionally intense, sharing unexpected information, challenging someone, reasserting boundaries. What...

Organisations will go to great lengths to create style guides, knowledge hubs, and team guides… so why aren’t they doing the same for problem-solving?...

An organisational change process is a big deal. The whole operating system of a business can change, the context switches, the foundations can falter....

What happens to a group when there is no leader, no subordinates, and no sense of hierarchy at all? Bob Dick believes this is the optimal approach to ...

Conflict in workshops is common, but how many of us seek to avoid it instead of embracing it? It’s understandable, and dare I say natural, to do so, ...

An external facilitator enters the building with a clear purpose and a single-minded focus. An internal facilitator enters the building five days a we...

No CEO or board is going to sign off on a project to make work more playful. This is because the misconception that play = games persists. The realit...

Workplace training and learning can inspire some varied responses. For some, a roll of the eyes and a sense of wasted time. For others (usually those ...

Emotions are messy — they’re big, powerful, and changeable. Facts and data are much more palatable — they’re truths and we can discuss our use of them...

What makes some events better than others? Is it the host, the setting, the purpose, or something else? Jacques Martiquet is The Party Scientist — he...

Self-Determination Theory posits that human motivation is driven by three central values: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. If we take SDT and a...

It’s never been more important to facilitate with an awareness of power dynamics, systemic imbalances, and inequity within groups. The progress we’ve...

It’s the talk of the internet and business circles, the culmination of many years of research and training, and an amazing step forward into the next ...

Nothing happens between childhood and adulthood that means we can no longer learn and grow through play, but for some reason we stop using this powerf...

Does pricing make you prickle with anxiety? Imagine what it would be like to feel confident and calm about valuing your services… and now meet Jenny M...

Things—found objects, ephemera from the discarded world, are everywhere. A marble, a spoon, a coil of string. They’re forgettable and ignorable and th...

The latest milestone for the workshops work podcast—200 episodes! 200! To celebrate the occasion, I’ve produced a special episode. Instead of speakin...

In May 2022, an academic research paper titled “Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation” was published in Nature (one of the most prestig...