Facilitation of Transformation Together
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Facilitation of Transformation Together -- 5 ways of being to identify the place and 10 actions to encourage flow
Adam Kahen (Author), Riichiro Oda (Translator)
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Faciliatating Breakthrough --- How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together (Adam Kahene, 2021)
This is a book by a leading expert who has been working on the side of human facilitators, not IT technology, to achieve cooperation across social differences, which is the goal of Plurality.
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He was in charge of social, political, economic, and technological scenarios in the scenario planning department of Royal Dutch Shell (early 1990s). He later became independent and led the post-apartheid nation-building dialogue for the 1991-92 "Mont Fleur Scenario Exercise" in South Africa.
Since then, he has designed dialogues that bring together governments, businesses, civil society, and armed groups in over 50 countries. He has worked on a diverse range of issues, including Colombian peace, Guatemalan peace talks, climate, food, and inequality.
Approach Features
The program emphasizes "transformative scenario planning," "power and love," "working with the enemy," and creating a space that brings out "the minimum direction in which we can move forward together" while confronting differences in power relations and values.
facilitation
Trying to bring the place together vertical facilitation.
command and order of top down.
Respect the individual horizontal facilitation.
bottom-up democratic consensus system
consensus building
→ Argues that a "transformational facilitation" is needed.
Sticking to one side or the other can cause stalemate and division.
Both constrain collaboration.
Need to cycle between the two poles depending on the situation
relevance
Power and Love
Contributions and Connections
facilitation
Work to facilitate group intellectual interaction
≈ increase the intellectual productivity of the team.
Difference from moderating (moderating) a meeting
Moderation tends to focus on content
Facilitation focuses on process
Process: context, member relationships, quality of place
Generate: new understanding of members, member relationships, intentions
Five Pairs of Movements
"Insist" and "explore."
"Drawing Conclusions" and "Moving On."
"Drawing a Path in Advance" and "Discovering."
"Conducting" and "accompanying."
"Stand Outside" and "Stand Inside."
Doing is supported by Being.
5 Inner Shifts (Changes in Being)
Become open.
see through
Adaptation.
Serving.
Become a partner
Facilitation Leadership
long-term strategy
Chapter 6: How to perceive the current situation
Chapter 7: How to Define Success
draw conclusions" and "move forward."
It is not a MUST to reach an agreement.
negative capability
Moving on with no conclusion.
Chapter 8: What path to take
governance
Chapter 9: How to Decide Who Does What
independence ・Independence
Chapter 10: How to Understand Your Role
remove obstacle.
Removing obstacles to the appearance of the mystical.
Contribution, Connection, Equality
Remove barriers to contribution, etc.
Review of previous publications
Collaboration with the Enemy
What facilitators do to get feuding groups to cooperate
Scenario Planning for Social Change
Applicable to Open Space Technology and [U-theory
What It Really Takes to Change the Future
The power to drive self-actualization
Love that drives us to reconnect
this book
Structure to achieve power and love = justice
These three are the fundamental driving forces, which emerge as [Contribution, Connection, Equality
Both vertical and horizontal facilitation constrain collaboration.
conflict of interest
Overall profit of one group
The interests of the individual members of the group
Transformational facilitation breaks through constraints
Circulate between vertical and horizontal types
Circulation removes obstacles.
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Too much emphasis on democratic decision-making and too much adherence to horizontal decision-making
Reject vertical decision-making as evil.
This type of thinking is an obstacle to circulation.
Parable of the Breath
Outer and inner game
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