178 - Facilitating Transformation: A Conversation between Utopia and Reality with Douglas Breitbart

08/16/22 • 71 min

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When you think of business transformation, what do you picture?

Expensive consultants armed with long presentations and a briefcase of jargon? Or a voluntary grassroots movement of trust, equity, and contractual safety within an organisation?

Douglas Breitbart sees it one way and one way only. You may be able to guess which method gets his vote.

This episode was hugely refreshing and inspiring. Douglas’ conviction and confidence in the power of internally led transformation projects — and the methods required to facilitate them effectively — are a blueprint for the agile and empathetic businesses of the future.

Find out about:

How sharing, not enforcing, power creates change
Why Douglas believes organisations can (and shall) change without new resources or inputs
Why many leaders end up ignoring the most powerful energetic potential in their organisation
Why an attachment to outcomes causes harm to the facilitator and their workshop participants
What changes when a voluntary team leads a transformation process
How to use values audits in business transformation
Why workshop participants are waiting for ‘enrolment’ — and how you can provide it

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2BElemental, Douglas’ coaching, insights, and collaboration business

Being In Systems, Douglas’ emergence facilitation business

The Values Foundation, Douglas’ value-alignment business

Connect to Douglas:

On LinkedIn

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Share your thoughts about our conversation!

When you think of business transformation, what do you picture?

Expensive consultants armed with long presentations and a briefcase of jargon? Or a voluntary grassroots movement of trust, equity, and contractual safety within an organisation?

Douglas Breitbart sees it one way and one way only. You may be able to guess which method gets his vote.

Find out about:

How sharing, not enforcing, power creates change
Why Douglas believes organisations can (and shall) change without new resources or inputs
Why many leaders end up ignoring the most powerful energetic potential in their organisation
Why an attachment to outcomes causes harm to the facilitator and their workshop participants
What changes when a voluntary team leads a transformation process
How to use values audits in business transformation
Why workshop participants are waiting for ‘enrolment’ — and how you can provide it

Don’t miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.

And download the free 1-page summary, so you can always have the key points of this episode to hand.

Links

2BElemental, Douglas’ coaching, insights, and collaboration business

Being In Systems, Douglas’ emergence facilitation business

The Values Foundation, Douglas’ value-alignment business

Connect to Douglas:

On LinkedIn

Support the show

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177 - What Love Has To Do With Facilitation with Lorenz Sell (Part 2)

Love is wonderful, it’s all around. Love is the finest thing in the world... but what’s it got to do with facilitation?

Spend and hour with Lorenz Sell and you’ll see the many threads that connect love and facilitation together. From creating connection and honest communication to presence and validation — facilitators may as well be love incarnate!

Lorenz and I discuss a range of themes in this episode, from the nitty-gritty of learning and sharing to the beautiful soft light of love and attention. Conversation with Lorenz flows so lightly and thoughtfully, this episode is equally perfect for a candle-lit Saturday night or a slow summer Sunday morning. Enjoy it — whichever way you choose to listen.

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Why the labels we assign to objects, feelings, or states cannot override their universal values
How online learning fell into an imbalance of content vs. connection
Why Lorenz sees ‘coherence’ as the great challenge of his facilitation practice
How Lorenz defines ‘the space’ in a workshop
What the difference is between hearing, seeing, and feeling another person
Why Lorenz thinks facilitators need to get comfortable with the darkest corners of themselves

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178 - Facilitating Transformation: A Conversation between Utopia and Reality with Douglas Breitbart (Part 2)

When you think of business transformation, what do you picture?

Expensive consultants armed with long presentations and a briefcase of jargon? Or a voluntary grassroots movement of trust, equity, and contractual safety within an organisation?

Douglas Breitbart sees it one way and one way only. You may be able to guess which method gets his vote.

Find out about:

How sharing, not enforcing, power creates change
Why Douglas believes organisations can (and shall) change without new resources or inputs
Why many leaders end up ignoring the most powerful energetic potential in their organisation
Why an attachment to outcomes causes harm to the facilitator and their workshop participants
What changes when a voluntary team leads a transformation process
How to use values audits in business transformation
Why workshop participants are waiting for ‘enrolment’ — and how you can provide it

Don’t miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.

And download the free 1-page summary, so you can always have the key points of this episode to hand.

Links

2BElemental, Douglas’ coaching, insights, and collaboration business

Being In Systems, Douglas’ emergence facilitation business

The Values Foundation, Douglas’ value-alignment business

Connect to Douglas:

On LinkedIn

Support the Show.