Slow down: a reminder for facilitators working online
Having worked with Chris Corrigan, Amanda Fenton and Ciarran Camman exploring how to bring our hosting practices online for a large organization we had lots of fun and learning. Chris´blog post highlighting the simplicity and slowing down as core reminders, that for me applies for work especially online but certainly also working on site.   - Rowan
Facilitators are getting inundated with panicky requests to host meetings online. Some of us have the tech know-how to do this, and others don’t. Clients are feeling pressure and urgency to get teams up and running online and folks are hoping the important meeting that they have been working with for months can suddenly go online and get the same kinds of results.
Here is some stuff to help you out.
Slow down. Just because you are not hosting face to face does not mean you are not hosting. Make sure that you do the due diligence in designing and hosting the meeting. You will need to talk to your clients and coach them and give a sense...
Tips: hosting and participating in online circles
I love Amy Lenzo's commitment to a virtual world, featured in this newsletter. I continue to learn a lot from her and with her in the work that we share. Online circles are real -- of course. They are just another kind of real that requires some unique attention.
5 Tips I Remember When Hosting and Participating in Online Circles
Over the last twenty years, I’ve been with literally hundreds of people in face-to-face circles. Some circles as large as fifty of sixty people. More commonly, in groups of six to sixteen. Most of us have been moved to tears at times in these circles. Or deep convictions. Or delightful surprises. Some of us have even found life-time companions, friends, and colleagues in the container that is circle.
One of the most common questions I'm asked from those face-to-face circles is, "Is this possible online?" I love the hope in people's eyes that is behind that ques
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