Thank you to everyone who participated in my plenary session Facilitating transformation: reviewing the past to prepare for the future at this year’s IABC Europe MENA conference #EuroComm17 in London today.

In the session I demonstrated a participatory approach for a group to review the past to prepare for the future, by applying the ToP Historical Scan method to reflect together on the journey of development of the communications profession.

Here I am sharing some links to some resources and case studies that I mentioned during the session, and perhaps some that I didn’t, plus (below) some some tweets from the session the timeline we created:

• ToP Historical Scan (‘Wall of Wonder’) overview – pdf
• The Art of Focused Conversation – book
• Four steps to a universal principle of facilitation and learning – blog post
• Facilitation case study: Celebrating 20 years with the European Training Foundation in Turin – #ETF20 – case study
• Transformational Strategy: from trepidation to ‘unlocked’ – case study
• Staff Away Day with George House Trust – case study
• Reviewing the past to prepare for the future: #FacHistory in Copenhagen – blog post
• #IAFEMENA17 conference, 13-15 October in Paris – IAF
• ToP (Technology of Participation) facilitation training – blog
• books and sticky walls – ICA:UK

#facilitation is the topic our next workshop session – all change! #eurocomm17 pic.twitter.com/ZReLGDedRD

— Nikki Edwards (@NikkiCE) March 28, 2017

A snapshot of a timeline? Moment in time? BOOM! #eurocomm17 pic.twitter.com/vleFV94PeB

— Nikki Edwards (@NikkiCE) March 28, 2017

2/3 love these comments about #communicators and #Iabc #EuroComm17 pic.twitter.com/nWxaPHcAnw

— Nikki Edwards (@NikkiCE) March 28, 2017

Please share your own reflections in a comment below:

• What can we learn from experience of the ever-changing and growing communications profession about how communicators might best adapt, invent, evolve and transform, as professionals and as a profession?
• How might you apply this method, and facilitation more broadly, in your communications work?
• What potential do you see for greater mutual learning and collaboration between facilitators and communicators, and for partnership between IAF and IABC?

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