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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

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Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings

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Then we facilitated a series of small groups so they could cross pollinate. Finally, since we were on the Gold Coast on the beach, I suggested that we do a walking debrief on the beach, although we adapted it to the beach promenade. This is an exercise I used in Tunisia. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

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From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages. Meedan is working with a tool that was intended to annotate tweets called Curated.by – an elegant workaround.