194 - Learnings from Acting about Facilitation and Embodiment with Anna Momber-Heers

12/06/22 • 74 min

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When you’re facilitating, where are you? In your head, your body, a role? There are no wrong answers, but there are plenty of interesting questions you can ask to better understand how you facilitate.

Anna Momber-Heers can share a lot of interesting insights, as her background is as a performance and communication coach. She helps professionals use tools and ideas from acting to get into their bodies and into a more settled place in their minds.

The closer we can get to our bodies, the clearer we can get in our minds. And, in fact, the more we can start to use one to influence the other. Learn about embodied facilitation and how to act like the facilitator you want to be in this episode.

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Why creating a facilitator ‘role’ for yourself can make it easier to focus on your job
How we can use acting tools to connect us to our minds, bodies, and emotions
What changes when facilitators have a stronger connection to their physical and mental experiences
Why trust is irreplaceable in workshop settings
Differentiating between our private selves and our present selves in the room
How to handle the tension between encouraging improvisation and managing time
How to train your body to prompt and support your mind in different states

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Share your thoughts about our conversation!

Find out about:

Why creating a facilitator ‘role’ for yourself can make it easier to focus on your job
How we can use acting tools to connect us to our minds, bodies, and emotions
What changes when facilitators have a stronger connection to their physical and mental experiences
Why trust is irreplaceable in workshop settings
Differentiating between our private selves and our present selves in the room
How to handle the tension between encouraging improvisation and managing time
How to train your body to prompt and support your mind in different states

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

Links

Watch the video recording of this episode on YouTube.

Anna’s website

Connect to Anna:

On LinkedIn

On Twitter

Support the show

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193 - An Unhurried Conversation about Unhurried Facilitation with Johnnie Moore

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How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling heard, like you put across the things you wanted to? Feeling relaxed, not frantic?

And how often do you workshops produce those same sensations?

If it’s less often than you’d like, Johnnie Moore can help, with his Unhurried model for conversation (and more).

As facilitators, we can learn a lot — directly and indirectly — from this approach. Unhurried might make you think ‘slow’, but it’s not necessarily so. Rather than purely slowing down, Johnnie explores what happens when we add layers and awareness to our interactions. When we take time to share, listen, and reflect, the conversation sounds very different.

In an increasingly demanding and results-oriented professional space, this is becoming a rare skill. And, as it becomes rarer, it will become vital that we reclaim the time and space to be unhurried.

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How Johnnie developed the concept of unhurried conversations to what it is today
Why slowness isn’t necessarily the goal of being unhurried
How to use props and models as guides to ease your way into unhurried conversation
Why Johnnie’s reflective practice uses a sliding scale of satisfaction, rather than failure vs. success
How to own your role in the conversation and step into honest relating about your experience
What ‘airtime’ in conversation is and why it is often the root of frustrations
How to have an effective conversation while speaking gibberish

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195 - Deconstructing the Meaning of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion with Meg Bolger

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Meg Bolger is one of a few returning guests to this show, originally featured in episode 133 (’The conversation I wish I heard when I started facilitating’).

Our conversation this time was a far cry from discussing what we wished we’d heard at the start of our careers. Instead, we focused on Meg’s area of expertise after 12+ years of development and practice: facilitating diversity, equity, and inclusion workshops and processes.

We stripped things back to their basics in search of universal language, juggled with contradictions, and explored the wider aims and outcomes of committing to a DEI process.

I learned a great deal in this episode and I hope you will, too!

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