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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

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There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Participatory Gatherings. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

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There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. Another option is to briefly share some content or a framework to kick off the participant knowledge sharing. We opted for the latter.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. More specifically, datamaking is an action whereby we transform information into data so that data can contribute to knowledge.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

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This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

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It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

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Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. Judgment ???

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How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session

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This is a session where you’ll be an active participant in your learning and will leave ready to apply lots of practical tips and techniques that will give your trainings more impact. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Design Thinking As Instructional Technique. Learning Styles.