An Appreciative Inquiry Summit brings the whole system together to imagine its best future and design strengths-based change. This guide explains how to run an AI Summit and turn large gatherings into spaces of shared vision and committed action.
Discover how to run an Open Space: a dynamic large-group facilitation method that hands the agenda to participants and sparks self-organising action. This practical guide explains the process, principles, hosting tips, and real-world examples so you can create events where energy, ownership, and collaboration thrive.
World Café is a powerful large-group facilitation method that helps organisations and communities surface collective insight and shared ownership through meaningful conversation. This step-by-step guide shows how to host a World Café, craft powerful questions and design conversations that lead to lasting change.
Yesterday saw the fith and final session of the Connecting for the Common Good series by Peter Block and friends. Here is my summary of the session:
The book in 3 sentences Peter Block challenges the dominant “business perspective”, built on scarcity, consumption, and institutional control, and offers a new story: the common good perspective, where citizens reclaim agency through trust, local action, and relational care. He argues that real change happens when neighbours gather, share power, and co-create community well-being, rather than waiting for systems to fix [...]
Stewardship by Peter Block is a foundational work on shifting leadership from control to service. This practical summary highlights the ideas that support trust-based partnership, shared accountability and long-term responsibility in organisations.
This is a hub of resources around mentoring. Within it you will find a range of links and recommendations that may help you on your journey to become a mentor or being an even better one. If you have any additional resources you think I should share, please let me know. A short selection of books that are worth [...]
Research around whole brain thinking and a simple coaching tool to support right brain thinking.
Joining the Drawify team - A quick look at what it is.
Blog piece on Virtual collaboration lessons learnt as an OU student
A hub of resources related to Design Thinking
Slide deck showing what is covered each week in B329
Sketchnotes from chapters 1 to 13 of Flawless Consulting
A simple sketch note on key ideas from Peter Block's Flawless Consulting "Discovery process"
A short presentation delivered to Nedja Petranovskaja's Remote Cafe Session on Face to Face versus Remote Facilitation?
This is a curation of Visual Templates I have found: either by being sent them or on my travels on the internet
My very brief thoughts on what makes a canvas
Notes written as I listened to Tuende Erdoes on "Integrative presence: Debunking the myths and realities around coaching presence and goal attainment"
Notes written as I listened to Teresa Pool on "Get off your Coaching Couch!"
Notes written as I listened to Judith Duhl on "Conscious Competence to Unconscious Competence: The leap into mastery"
Notes written as I listened to D Ivan Young on "Creating intimacy and trust with your client. The Empathetic path toward the Generational Moment"
A sketchnote from a session by Pierluigi Pugliese
Notes written as I listened to Ihab Badawi on "Coaching Wholeness: Creating Deeper & Sustainable Impact"
Notes written as I listened to Fran Fisher on "Calling Forth Greatness: Who I am Being Empowers My Coaching"
Notes written as I listened to Diana Ideus on "No One Listens Like Coaches Listen"
Notes written as I listened to Cherie Silas on "Introduction to systems coaching: What is it and how is it different than coaching individuals"
Notes written as I listened to Dr Ben Koh on "Transcendent - Coaching in the Moment"
A double sized document to help trainers and facilitators get the best out of Zoom
A series of sketchnotes from a session by Ia Brix on designing and using visual templates.
A sketchnote on the role of fear in facilitation from the book The Collaboration Code
A sketchnote on the role of trust in the process of facilitation
The Scan Focus Act facilitation model in a sketchnote summary - Taken from The Collaboration Code book series
A sketchnote on how to do solid co-facilitation from the book series The Collaboration Code
A sketchnote on an approach to facilitation outlines in The Collaboration Code book series
A series of sketchnotes on the role of the physical environment in facilitation and how to design for its use
This "hub" page contains a range of resources around habit change. In order you will find sketch notes, book summaries and then articles - all denoted by different icons I have been a big fan of BJ Foggs work for quite a few years now and have written blog posts on his ideas previously. He has recently launched a [...]
Resources for effective collaboration
This page is a "hub" page of resources around systems thinking. It is not meant to be authoritative nor definitive, but should hopefully give those interested in Systems Thinking a head start on learning about systems thinking. There are many "flavours" or methodologies of systems thinking. Here I aim to provide a general overview. So what is systems thinking? I like [...]
As part of working towards my goal of becoming a graphic scribe, I am looking to start sketch noting. This is a pretty practical skill to have for my work and for the study of my MA. Here is my first attempt, which is a summary of the book by Perry Holley “Repeat the Remarkable” Having done this and reviewed my first attempt, [...]
This is the fourth, in an occasional series, of articles around key concepts that have had a signifiant impact on me as a business leader, person, coach, trainer and facilitator. I originally came across the concept of the inner game and the performance long before I even knew what coaching was and far before I got trained as a professional coach. [...]
This is the fifth in a series of articles around key concepts that have impacted me personally and professionally over the course of my career. I cam across the phrase of comfort zone early in my career when working at Plas-Y-Brenin, The National Centre for Mountain Activities in Snowdonia North Wales. All instructors were asked to stretch course participants out of their [...]
A practical introduction to Edward de Bono’s Direct Attention Thinking Tools (DATT), explaining how they support clearer thinking, better decisions and more deliberate problem solving.
This is the second of ten blog articles around concepts that have had a significant on me as a manager, leaders, coach and facilitator. “Stop, Challenge and Choose” is a powerful concept that I learnt back in 1994, when working with a client to deliver an 18,000 person training programme in 18 months. The programme was based around the work developed [...]
This is the first of a series of blog pieces around what I consider to be the most essential concepts I have come across in the course of my 20 years as a manager, leader, trainer, coach. The first of these is attributed to the great author Stephen Covey, and comes from his book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. [...]
As International Facilitation Week ramps up, I wanted to contribute by trying to connect more facilitators globally together through Twitter. In order to do this, I thought I would share my experience of Twitter by creating this short Frequently Asked Questions guide. Its aim is to help facilitators understand what twitter is and how you they can leverage its use: 1) [...]
A collection of visual canvases
A sketchnote on brain fitness and how to improve it based on a webinar from Dr André Vermeulen
A sketchnote on PIGS: Post It Graphic (Recording) System developed by Dario Paniagua - The post also includes a few example PIGS.
This blog articles shares three sketch notes from an online moderated discussion held by Cognitive Edge
Three sketchnotes on the webinars by Julian Stodd looking at remote working
