191 - What would a Bachelors of Facilitation Contain? An exploration with Marcus Crow

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11/15/22 • 69 min

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As facilitation has grown in popularity and awareness over the last decade. And, as markets grow, dilution and variance begins to naturally occur. Marcus Crow has been pondering this issue for a while — chewing over formalization, authentication, and accreditation in our profession.

An idea he wanted to explore more (and what better stage than this podcast?) is what a degree in facilitation might look like.

Is facilitation something you can teach in an academic space? What disciplines and related fields would inform the curriculum? Where would our field trips take us?

Head back to school with us in this curious and joyful episode!

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Why Marcus keeps questioning whether formalization will help or hinder facilitation
The disciplines and ideas that might inform a Bachelor’s-style programme
Whether facilitation is static or context-independent enough to be academized
How facilitation might become a constant feature of CPD plans in the near-future
Why Marcus would take his class to a military barracks
What the common threads and techniques are between different types of facilitators

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Share your thoughts about our conversation!

An idea he wanted to explore more (and what better stage than this podcast?) is what a degree in facilitation might look like.

Is facilitation something you can teach in an academic space? What disciplines and related fields would inform the curriculum? Where would our field trips take us?

Head back to school with us in this curious and joyful episode!

Find out about:

Why Marcus keeps questioning whether formalization will help or hinder facilitation
The disciplines and ideas that might inform a Bachelor’s-style programme
Whether facilitation is static or context-independent enough to be academized
How facilitation might become a constant feature of CPD plans in the near-future
Why Marcus would take his class to a military barracks
What the common threads and techniques are between different types of facilitators

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

Links

10,000 Hours — Marcus’ company

Connect to Marcus:

On LinkedIn

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190 - The Meaning of Courage in Facilitative Work with Roi Ben-Yehuda

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Facilitation might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of courage — we do not charge valiantly into battle or wrestle wild animals! — but the closer one looks at it, the more the connection becomes visible.

It takes courage to bring a group of people together and challenge them to grow and make progress. It takes courage to stand up and say “I will do this”. It takes courage to ask difficult questions.

And it takes courage to get out of our own way — and the group’s.

Roi Ben-Yehuda joins me in this episode to dissect what it means to facilitate with courage, why questions are the currency of the courageous, and what he’d plan to say if zombies attacked.

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Why courage has nothing to do with escaping fear, but everything to do with contextualising it
Why open vs. closed questions is an outdated binary — and Roi’s more qualitative alternative
How collectivism operates as a shortcut to courage
How the magic of workshops isn’t in the content, but in how the group interact with the content
What you can do to prevent being triggered out of courage
Where leadership and facilitation intersect — and why collaboration and cocreation are critical to both

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192 - Exploring Language Privilege in Facilitation with Florentine Versteeg

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Language is messy. It comes with assumptions, uncertainties, and contradictions — but what else can we use to facilitate?

Florentine Versteeg would never claim to have all the answer, but she is certainly asking all the right questions. Her thoughts on facilitation and the inherent privileges in our language take us on a fascinating journey in this episode.

We challenge our ideas about communication, inclusivity, and bias — and what we aim to achieve by challenging them in the first place!

If you’re a facilitator who enjoys questioning things you’d never think to question, stepping into big challenges, and learning new ways to see things... this might be the perfect episode.

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