Facilitating a culture of participation in international organisations with IAF Belgium in Brussels – session outputs

Thank you very much indeed to the 15 or so people who participated in my session in Brussels this evening, and to Marie Dubost and IAF Belgium for the invitation and for hosting.

In the session, I demonstrated a participatory approach for a group to review the past, to prepare for the future, by applying the ToP (Technology of Participation) Historical Scan method to to reflect and learn together from our diverse experience and perspectives on facilitating a culture of participation in international organisations. I also shared some insights into the theory behind the method and examples of the method in action, and invited participants to consider ways that they can apply the method in their own practice

Here I am sharing links to some resources and case studies that I mentioned during the session, and perhaps some that I didn’t.

ToP Historical Scan method

• Today’s IAF Belgium session slides – pdf
• ToP Historical Scan (‘Wall of Wonder’) overview – IAF Europe Method of the Month, May 2007 (pdf)
• The Art of Focused Conversation – book
• Four steps to a universal principle of facilitation and learning – blog post
• Is there a single, universal principle of facilitation? – free facilitation webinar with IAF Belgium, 2021

Examples of the method in action

• Adapt • Invent • Evolve: reviewing the past to prepare for the future at the IABC, EMENA 2017 conference in London, #EuroComm17 – blog post
• Celebrating 20 years with the European Training Foundation in Turin – #ETF20 – case study
• Celebrating the development of facilitation – world-wide and history long – #FacHistory
• Staff Away Day with George House Trust in Manchester – case study
• Transformational Strategy: from trepidation to ‘unlocked’ with IDMC in Geneva – case study
• Facilitating change in complexity – the Oxfam Lebanon ‘One Country Strategy’ process – case study

ToP facilitation training & sticky walls

• Register now in Eventbrite for my upcoming public courses in Brussels in September & December, and in London & elsewhere
• For more, see ToP facilitation training
• Sticky walls are available from ICA:UK.

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