Category: Facilitation

August 10, 2018

The Importance of Meeting Check-Ins

At the Center for Community Stewardship, we like to start the meetings we facilitate with a check-in. For smaller groups that work together more, we will often use more personal check-in questions to allow people to share a short summary of what is going on for them in the moment. For groups of people who […]

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January 29, 2018

January 20th Dialogue Circles Training A Success

How can we as facilitators create structures and practices that that will contribute to the ability of a group to deeply listen to each other, even if they have very different views? How do you kindly re-direct participants who have diverged from a set of group agreements designed to contribute to a respectful dialogue? How […]

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September 28, 2017

Join us for a Participatory, Collaborative Meetings Workshop October 11th

Last week C4CS (Haywood Simmons, Lisa Dugdale, and Bert Stitt) had a great time presenting our Participatory, Collaborative Meetings workshop at the Center for Change. We believe you should leave meetings in a better mood than you were when you arrived, and feeling like you were able to fully participate. Our workshop will share and […]

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