Facilitator Brain Jam: Using Gather for Virtual Facilitation
Have you ever explored how you might use a proximity-based video-conferencing platform in your workshops?
Welcome! Here you will find posts about Facilitation & Training Resources, Using Facilitator Cards (how-tos, theory, sequences, etc.), and About the Cards themselves (how they're made, how they came to be, expansions and updates, etc.).
Have you ever explored how you might use a proximity-based video-conferencing platform in your workshops?
Why watching yourself facilitate can help you improve everything
We hear you on the "I'm not putting anything on my calendar until 2021" vibe. Let's get back into it in January.
A stack of cards for facilitating deep introspection, dialogue, and coaching participants to make a decision that will stand up to the test of time — all on Zoom.
A stack of cards you can use for an engaging Zoom meeting that surfaces emotions, ideas, clarifies those ideas, and finally lands on a collective decision.
What roles can live polling software play in a Zoom meeting? Turns out, a bunch!
Join us as we crowdsource creative ways to use live polling to enhance Zoom meetings.
We surfaced dozens of facilitator challenges we're facing, and wise-crowds-ed solutions.
We're bringing facilitators together to explore new digital tools and crowdsource creative ways to use these tools in our facilitation.
From the digital tools you'll need, to the questions to ask yourself as you're rewriting your agendas, here's a great place to start if you're transitioning from physical rooms to Zoom.
Are you struggling for ways to connect groups during the pandemic? Don’t know your Zooms from your Hangouts? Have you never before considered the roles of lighting or microphones in your work?
A response to a comment on our Kickstarter, and explanation of what went into the price of the Facilitator Cards.
A preview chapter from the Facilitator Cards Facilitation Guide
The items that always make my facilitation packing list
There are lots of ways we can engage groups in learning. This one just happens to be inherently equitable and just.
5 Strategies to help when you’re drawing a blank and wondering if you’ll ever have a creative idea again.
A pairing of activities to help you better understand your group, help them understand each other, and to dig into what is bubbling under the surface.
One small change you can make for big creativity & flexibility.
After years of back-and-forths, these are the facilitator supplies I ask every client to provide for maximum flexibility.
For your convenience: Meet the Facilitator Cards Preview Pack
Group size and energy levels matter, of course, but those need to come second to this.
We planned for the cards to be dry erase. After testing our prototype, we realized how bad of a plan that was.
How I gradually made my facilitations more about my participants than my plan.
We're trying to make and ship a physical product that's high quality, ethical, and sustainable.
Let's start with a little housekeeping: framing the blog, instructions for where to find things, and our intended outcomes.