What starts a social movement? How does it grow? How do people work with each other and inspire others to join? I’m excited to facilitate a dynamic discussion on Friday, April 12th: Building a Bike Movement in Autopia: An Experiment in Group Ethnography (1997 to the present). Continue reading
A Collaboration Exploring Culture Change: Los Angeles Bike Movement History
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Collaborating for Sustainability in SoCal
Transitioning Southern California into a sustainable region is beyond the capacity of one organization to accomplish alone. The challenges are too big and complex. Instead, “large scale social-change comes from better cross-sector coordination rather than from the isolated intervention of individual organizations” (Kania & Kramer). This cross-sector coordination is called many things: collaboration, collective impact, Continue reading
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Valentines Day Retreat with Pablove
It’s not everyday you get to facilitate a team building retreat on Valentines Day with an organization that has “LOVE” in their name. That’s exactly what I did recently with the Pablove Foundation, an fantastic organization “fighting childhood cancer with love”. Some highlights for me:
Relationship Building: Like the retreat I led last year for the LA Neighborhood Land Trust, the number of folks on the Pablove Continue reading
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Collaborative Retreat: ARC + STAR
Why host a retreat for one organization when you can share it with two? This is exactly what we did for a retreat I facilitated for two organizations working to improve the lives of people with diabilities: The ARC and STAR, Inc. Both are grantees of the John Gogian Foundation, who has invited me to present twice to their grantees on best practices related to Boards.
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Everyone Walks in LA: LA Walks Retreat
I’m a big believer in the mission of Los Angeles Walks and am pleased to report after a fun, engaging two-day retreat, their board decided goals for what it wants to accomplish, both in 2013 and over the long-term. They also prioritized how they want to grow LA Walks as an organization and built stronger relationships throughout the retreat. Some retreat highlights for me: Continue reading
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10 Books on Facilitation (with 11 Quotes)
Here are my top 11 recommendations on books related to facilitation:
Great meetings!: How to facilitate like a pro. Kelsey, D., & Plumb, P. (1997). A good intro. “The facilitator impacts and guides the process but does not give input on the content of a meeting – that comes from the participants.” –Kelsey and Plumb
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