This week, you can find me:
On a panel about advocating for #NHPRC and #NARA as critical infrastructure @ National Humanities Day
Advocating to my legislators on the Hill for NARA appropriations and federal #archives workers
Giving a workshop " #Facilitation and Project Management for All" at the New England Archivist's Spring Meeting
On a panel about the environmental effects of #AI and how archivists can evaluate this aspect of AI tools @ NEA
HMU if you wanna hang! 
Visiblement je maltraite mon clavier. Un comble pour un pianiste.
Je lui ai refait une beauté à l'aide du kit #keydis imaginé par Ryan Dubois, lycéen dyslexique.
Les couleurs guident l'enfant pour la position des doigts. Le rouge pour le petit doigt.
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"If you want to be a convincing advisor, psychological research tells us that your observations/facts and rational arguments may have relatively little effect. You need to make sure your relation with the person you need to convince is as good as possible and the message is heard as often as possible."
—Gerben Wierda @gctwnl: https://ea.rna.nl/2022/10/24/on-the-psychology-of-architecture-and-the-architecture-of-psychology/ 
Register now for the New England #Archivists Spring meeting in Springfield, MA! https://newenglandarchivists.org/event-5959205
++ register for my pre-conference workshop, #Facilitation and Project Management for All. https://newenglandarchivists.org/event-6027737
Learn how to get groups to achieve their outcomes, while reducing harm to individuals (such as #burnout and #microaggressions) along the way. My experience is from facilitating communities of practice (SPN, BCC, DLF BDAWG, etc.) + community groups + https://aorta.coop/
Si je voulais m'améliorer dans la #facilitation et/ou l'animation de collectifs (pas sure de la ≠ entre les deux), vous me recommanderiez quoi comme :
- lectures
- outils
- formations
- ressources
etc… etc… ?
(Notamment pour préparer l'animation d'une équipe municipale, mais pas que)
After telling people about this for months, I finally wrote a little something about one of my favorite #facilitation methods!
If entryism didn’t work, organizations wouldn’t have such wide-ranging and effective immune responses to suppress internal dissent (a thread).
To give everyone the opportunity to share during a meeting, you need agreement on who goes next. Online meetings pose additional challenges. Here's what to do.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2020/04/who-goes-next
"Critical feedback is welcome here,” they laugh breezily, skipping ahead while their comrade faceplants on a missing stair.
A vicious circle: Difficult discussions cannot be engaged productively without trust. Failure to engage difficult discussions prevents trust from being built.
An organization doesn’t necessarily owe _the public_ an airing of its internal accountability, but it does owe an accessible and transparent process to its members, especially those holding positions of lowest power in the org.
A complement to “don’t feed the trolls” is “what we pay attention to grows,” which I first encountered while reading adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy.
In turning attention away from trolls, we can turn it toward the practices of care through which we build resilient communities able to guide change.
Exercising care is not compatible with dominant economic frameworks even as these frameworks try to disguise exploitation as care, such as the underpaid nurses and teachers who are expected to give away their labor for the greater good.
In order to unsettle such ideological disguises and naturalizations, critical practice has to identify power differentials, explain how those differentials yield different (and unjust) outcomes, and articulate alternatives.
Near the end of The Dig's latest episode, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor talks about a failure to build spaces for the conversations needed for social transformation: https://thedigradio.com/podcast/democratic-dealignment-w-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/
Beautiful resource to support futures thinking
"In a #consensus decision-making process, the decision and the buy-in land at the same time. Rather than making a decision and then getting everyone on board, you get everyone on board, at which point the decision is clear."
by Mandy Brown: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/consenting-to-decisions/
"All communication is lossy", 2022, by Mandy Brown: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/all-communication-is-lossy/
Now without VAT, 20% cheaper for you :)
How can you have more purposeful & productive conversations, develop creative solutions, and build group consensus and commitment to action? Join me for my next ICA:UK #ToPfacilitation training to find out, Nov 12-13 in London!
“The cost of #change from an executive, is completely different from the cost of change from a development team.”
— Jabe Bloom
How to use a two sides fishbowl to explore opposing viewpoints in a group
#KalaniDas has some good tips for #facilitation for music activities:
Maïtané 
