The Art of Facilitation
Self discovery in community is the future
The Art of Facilitation
The key to transformation is self-awareness. A transformational leader helps participants bring attention to hidden assumptions, which are often part of our default stories or identities, such as the lost child or hard-hearted person. We do this through the safe witnessing of habitual thinking and judgments.
Liz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
In designing your workshops, you’re co-creating the conditions for self-discovery in a supportive community using liberating practices. You’re offering a safe space for individuals like Melanie to practice becoming choosers and deciders, and to realize that they have freedom in how to relate to themselves, others, and the world.
Liz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
The transformational model aims to embolden, support, uplift, and empower self-directed individuals and ignite group creativity through self-inquiry and cooperative inquiry.
Liz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
There is power in sending people on quests, learning in groups, and developing a body of people that moves together. This is how you create a regenerative community that amplifies human potential and creates a path towards solving our most challenging problems.
Ryan Sean Adams • DAOs as Playgrounds for Growth and Development
Together, a holistic view, intentional community, self-awareness, embodied leadership, mind-body experiences, and group wisdom create the conditions for transformation, regardless of the workshop topic. Each person gets what they need and leaves the workshop with a renewed sense of purpose in life. The ultimate impact of the transformational worksh
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To create something that others want to join and support, we have to remember a core tenet: communities function best and are most durable when they’re helping members to be more successful in some way in a connected and dynamic world.
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
The experience may be slightly different from practice to practice (and lesson to lesson), but the essence revolves around discovering (or rediscovering) the wisdom of the self.
Karin Rugman • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
Mind-body experiences are an invitation to go on a journey of exploration and self-inquiry. The value of experience is that it is engaging. It lets people find answers for themselves, have a stake in what they create, and then share their discoveries with others.
Liz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
The essential conditions for transformation in workshops are co-created by the leader and the participants. As an embodied leader, you form an intentional community where people can meet, join, and belong. Your holistic view honors the inherent worth of each person, and you believe that everyone already has what they need to live a purposeful life.
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