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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. However, I don’t always have that opportunity because many times nonprofit workshops are hosted at conferences at hotels.

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

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Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. Facilitator bits. To remedy this error, here are four things I've learned about facilitating brainstorming sessions. You did great.

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Great Conversationalists: Reflections on Being a Dial-a-Stranger

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And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. Should Mercedes and Zachary train others as hosts, to support more conversations and provide more people with transformative experiences as participants? They really cared about me.

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Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Sadly, this is not the case. of the past.

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