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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. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. What to do? You can build your resilience by listening to a lecture!

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

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Facilitator bits. While Jim and I explained clearly to Wild Idea proposers what they needed to do to submit their project for consideration before MuseumNext, we didn't give them enough support in actually facilitating their group brainstorming at the event. You did great. Always start and end with something creative.

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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. Mercedes and Zach aren't just interrogators; they also shared their own reflections and stories throughout our conversation. What made Mercedes and Zach such great conversationalists?