Hey @Tj Mackey I suggest as @Will Stammers and @Raymond Tilkens have said to break into smaller groups! For example 3x8! Then run the dynamics inside each group in parallel! Here’s a suggestion: Its good to have co facilitators but if not, you can announce each exercise to all groups and then circle around the room as the exercises progress! Next exercise announcement, circle the room! Keep repeating until the whole canvas is filled out for all groups. Now Is time to merge! Draw a big team canvas on a whiteboard (or have it ready beforehand) and ask each group to select on person in the group to: place its group’s post-it’s on the shared canvas and as they place them briefly describe what they are placing! Take just a few minutes per group. At this point you have a big team canvas with post-it’s! Run a clustering session to see what patterns emerge from the joint work of the 3 groups. Now you have the overall team canvas! You can now give some voting dots (e.g. 10 per person) and ask them to place them on the post its that reason the most with them! Break! When everyone is back, summarize the “hottest/most voted areas” by playing back what is in the canvas to everyone! P.s. whenever I run canvas exercises I always remind people that more important than the canvas we end up with, is the process of filling it together! It’s a starting point for a deeper discussion, not the end! 😀

@Kerri Price I enjoy both actually! 😀 Being outside is fun because you get more variation of domains to work with potentially! Being inside you get to see the results of your work over time! The reason I moved inside was to try an crack the code for impactful, long lasting results from facilitation. When I was outside we had a lot of what I call “aleluia moments”! People would come from a corporate to a series of worskshops and leave with all kinds of plans and ideias that would fade out once they were “back” in the organization routine! I moved inside and it’s very different from being outside: - you’re much more accountable! You work at the company and you will be there once facilitation is done and know if it turned into something (and I mean beyond prototypes) - You can’t rely on the novelty factor! Consultants sell the same thing over and over again to different companies (e.g. design sprints training). When you’re inside you have a grace period where you are new and exciting but it wears out! So you need to also be able to achieve tangible results. - You need to deeply understand the company strategy! Inside it’s not enough to focus only on the workshop! You need to really understand company strategy to be able to connect to that and not end up being perceived as an “animator” or “team builder”! This is tightly connect to the previous point! Again, I really enjoy both experiences but they are very different! The great thing is one feeds the other so when I do workshops as consultant now, after being inside, I can understand much better the concerns of workshops participants coming from corporates! You’re giving me food for thought to write more about this 😀 thanks!

@Kerri Price exactly! Still figuring it out but I’m closer today than I was before 😀

Question: This "Inner Circle" community. How does one access it? :)

@Jonathan Courtney thanks

I cheated ahah! Love this icebreaker!!

@David Finnegan ahah great idea

@Jeff Panning you’re welcome 😀 it’s amazing and great for inspiration! There’s a lot more it can do! I hope to explore more when I have the chance and I’ll share it here!

Loving everyone’s excitement around this! In case you haven’t seen it I wrote a second post on how to use chatGPT **while running a workshop ** check it out here https://www.skool.com/facilitatorclub/real-time-ai-and-facilitation-with-chatgpt

@Mladen Tomov you are most welcome! I’m using it a lot too! it’s super useful as long as we keep critical thinking levels high!

@Jan Keck transcript of user interviews yes. real time input from a call while it is actually happening I have not! :) How about u?

Look no further than Dave Gray @Sandrine Tognotti excellent course and free! https://xplaner.substack.com/p/visual-thinking-short-course-free?sd=pf

You’re free to use mine. Here’s for deep work and focus https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5VojVe4Dq3IKlzG5z5p1bE?si=wCQ1Yky1SFuObd9JIv5uJA

For upbeat and bringing people back to energy https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5buQ0AGj3swkT8WwtcxUKB?si=0VrV8BOQQXqzwEnUf6fauw

@David Newman perhaps it’s not one or the other but both! There was diagram someone shared that was quite interesting showing the space of each activity! Let me see if I can find it!

@David Newman can’t find it in the group but was similar to this!

Thank you back @Jakub Michalski 💪

Custom designed workshops that take from different base methodologies to respond to each challenge!

@Johnny Jon Jon exactly!

@David Finnegan ahah cool!

@Jan Keck “a variety of noise makers” maybe I should bring my kids 🤣

I am interested in this topic too! Especially in embedding these concerns in daily practices of work! Check this video for what tends to happen when these are separated 😅 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYa74ut2/

@Julia Lemke you’re making great point regarding physical space! Interesting to think on this also from a remote work perspective as in those cases it’s more on the employee side

I often change the room setup to wrap up! Most often we have group tables and when I close, I ask everyone to gather around in a circle, facing each other, the whole group. Then do a reflection exercise before closing! However if I am doing a series of workshops I tend to do this mostly in the last one, having quicker wrap up’s followed by recaps in all the workshops except the last!

@Scott Fry oh yeah! When I say “I” change the room setup it’s very often we! So I say something like this “all right everyone so we’re getting close to the end of the day, so let’s change things a bit! Everyone take a chair and let’s gather around in a circle!” Then I start and everyone follows!