Facilitating Important Conversations
I have been helping leadership teams with the facilitation of their strategy sessions, board meetings, partnership negotiations, brainstorming sessions and more since the early 2000’s. At the risk of tempting fate, my sense is that these have always tended to go very well, enabling all present to be fully engaged and allowing collective generosity and clear thinking to flourish.
On the civic side, I have also facilitated multiple resident workshops in my local home community, specifically around the challenging question of how to live well with four baboon troops for immediate neighbours.
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In light of the work I had been doing since 2022 to bring our Simon’s Town community into a genuine conversation about the highly polarizing issue of baboons entering our residential areas, Clarence Ford invited me to talk about how one can bring people with widely different opinions closer together. We spoke for c.20 minutes and I set out the basic approach I use in mediating conflict.