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********************** Dynamic Facilitation Skills Learn how you can bring Dynamic Facilitation to your community by sponsoring a public or "inhouse" seminar. . |
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About the Seminar
Topics from the Seminar Jim Rough, Instructor Other Jim Rough & Assoc., Inc. |
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Self-organizing Change
A Dynamic Facilitator elicits and sustains self-organizing change, whether it is in a person, group, or organization. Rather than trying to manage or explain or teach, for example, the facilitator attends to the process of change and trusts that things will self-organize. Examples of such self-organization are:
- New insights where problems are spontaneously solved.
- Changes of heart where the trust level shifts and adversaries become friends.
- A shift from dependency to empowerment.
- A change of management style, from control to self-management.
- People discovering what they really want instead of what they thought they wanted.
Because of the mechanistic paradigm we live in, changes like these can seem like magic. The two fundamentally different kinds of change are illustrated below:
Two Models of Change |
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Manageable (Type 1)
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Self-Organizing (Type 2)
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e.g. a machine, monarchy, traditional meeting |
e.g. a living organism, democracy, dialogue |
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| How order is determined |
It is organized by someone (extrinsic forces)
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Order comes from within (intrinsic energy)
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| Thinking | Stay rational ....avoid the unconscious mind
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Be creative ....work with the unconscious mind
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| Leadership | Manage to get results
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Facilitate the process
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| Orientation | Stop things from going wrong
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Help things go right
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A well facilitated meeting opens the door to self-organizing change. Knowing how to facilitate in this way is the core competency of leadership in the world to come.
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