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How do you create a culture of independent and empowered facilitation in a large business? Well, Rod Butcher and Nikesh Patel of Fidelity Internationa...

“Keep it simple, stupid” is a popular refrain which might be better translated as “make it harder, stupid”! One of the most common misunderstandings ...

In an on-site workshops, breakout groups are a tried and tested way to get the group thinking, communicating, and developing. In online workshops, br...

Facilitation is a system that gives groups space to make sense — it’s not about guiding them towards something, nor is it about leading them. But wha...

Meg Bolger is one of a few returning guests to this show, originally featured in episode 133 (’The conversation I wish I heard when I started facilita...

When you’re facilitating, where are you? In your head, your body, a role? There are no wrong answers, but there are plenty of interesting questions yo...

How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling heard, like you put across the things you wanted to? Feeling relaxed, not frantic? And how oft...

Language is messy. It comes with assumptions, uncertainties, and contradictions — but what else can we use to facilitate? Florentine Versteeg would n...

As facilitation has grown in popularity and awareness over the last decade. And, as markets grow, dilution and variance begins to naturally occur. Mar...

Facilitation might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of courage — we do not charge valiantly into battle or wrestle wild animal...

Facilitation might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of courage — we do not charge valiantly into battle or wrestle wild animal...

Improvisation seems to have an inescapable connection with facilitation. It’s a topic we’ve touched on many times in this podcast but, to really dig i...

Accessibility — ensuring the spaces we create are open, welcoming, and easy for everyone to join — is a critical, but often neglected, issue in facili...

Some of you who listen to this episode will not have been alive for 30 years, which gives Barb Pedersen the wonderful claim that she’s been facilitati...

Some episodes of this podcast have an extremely tight focus — a specific topic, inspected under scrutiny. Some episodes are like walks through a beaut...

Dance—especially improvised dance—is an arena for deep vulnerability, connection, and growth. It requires careful and considered facilitation, as you ...

Ask a group of leaders about heart connections in their organisations and you will likely be met with raised eyebrows and doubtful looks. Their loss—a...

We’ve had plenty of opportunities to practice online facilitation since 2020, but have we reached a plateau? Has complacency crept in? John Chen has ...

What is it like to be on ‘the other side' of the workshop — to be a participant or a client? This podcast has always focused on conversations with fa...

Tobias Mayer’s experience as a scrum master has taken him around the world and across the upper echelons of the biggest names in tech. Those 20+ years...

Mohsin Memon is a gaming expert—but he’s not spending his days playing shoot ‘em ups. Mohsin’s expertise lies at the crossroads of learning and gaming...

There are few spaces in which facilitation skills have a greater impact than diplomacy, yet conversations connecting the two are rare. This episode c...

When you think of business transformation, what do you picture? Expensive consultants armed with long presentations and a briefcase of jargon? Or a v...

Love is wonderful, it’s all around. Love is the finest thing in the world… but what’s it got to do with facilitation? Spend and hour with Lorenz Sell...

Games or card decks are often used as fun activities in workshops. They’re seen as good tools for keeping a group energised and interested… but they c...

Presence — it sounds like a simple concept, but it is littered with deeper questions. Does our presence change when we are in a physical workshop or ...

Before a workshop, training, or speech, which do you spend more time thinking about: what you will say or how you will say it? Joep Hegger would argu...

Facilitation is such a broad brush with which to paint. Why is it, then, that so much of our work takes the form of workshops? Meeting our clients’ n...

How many facilitators dream of a workshop in which everything goes exactly to plan? And how many facilitators have experienced that dream? The nature...

Play is for kids, playgrounds, and light-hearted fun. It’s just not ‘the done thing’ in corporate settings, is it? If you speak with Susanne Heiss, y...