Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

The best facilitators will confidently take you on a journey of exploration, education, discussion, and planning. No one wants to listen to a stoic facilitator pontificate behind a lectern reading lame PowerPoint slides. Facilitating a high-impact, memorable retreat is an art and the best facilitators are master artists.

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Facilitation Exercise Fun PowerPoint 98

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. WHO (slides 3-23) "Community” is not an abstraction.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

There are many amazing community representatives from business, arts, education, and social services who connect us to powerful ideas and partners. We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. Here are the slides so you can see what we shared.

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Program Community Design Museum 49

Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

I once asked Eric Siegel, the Director of the New York Hall of Science, why museums are rarely innovative shining stars on the cutting edge of culture. This is the model that governs most businesses and artistic endeavors. Then they start to slide. He commented that as non-profits, museums are built to survive, not to succeed.

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Model Business Los Angeles Museum 55

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Artist Museum Project Public 39

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording, as well as the slides, later on this afternoon. We love doing them, bring on great guest, speakers, totally free, totally educational. Today is by no means an exception.

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Report Measure Process Impact 80

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

It's funny, it's a profession that's supposed to educate the public, but the profession itself was always very closed and insular. On Spot.us, we're trying to bring in a culture of transparency in journalism, where we say, "Invite the public into the reporting from day one. It is traditionally very guarded. Is it video and audio?

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Interview Fund Report Community 40