We have 550 euros available in the Team Facilitation budget (Q3-4) for doing something with Collective…
Although we’ve established that they provide workshops in English, it would probably be better if a fluent French speaker reached out to them. I think at this stage we are just asking:
how much they would charge to come in an facilitate a plenary if we were having trouble with a decision
can they do everything they offer in English
would they be able to give Team Facilitation some training in the spring
I’ve also reached out to Nathalie, the friend of Ralf’s that did the deep democracy half-day workshop for us a while ago. I was interested to see if she could facilitate a workshop for us around conflict prevention and healthy group dynamics. Her fee is a little out of the Reef’s price range, but the last time we made up for that by all contributing a bit. I’m going to meet with her in September, and potentially bring a proposal forward…
I would then propose to increase the budget so that we can hire someone from Collectiv-a (or equivalent) whenever we need them. We have just experienced how we got a delay in the planning because we had some difficulties with the common spaces. As the cost of any further delays will only increase, I think spending money on facilitation (as they did for example in Tivoli) is well worth the money.
I would really like to have a Team Facilitation meeting soon after I get back from holiday, to reconnect with the aims and tasks associated with this team, as well as discussing the coordinator role.
Here’s a poll re availablity :
Tuesday 11 September (evening)
Wednesday 12 September (evening)
Tuesday 17 September (evening)
Thursday 19 September (evening)
0voters
I don’t think we’ll need more than an hour at this point, as it’s mainly about making a plan for moving forward and developing some momentum with this team. We can meet online or in person, either of which is fine with me. Once we have a date, I will post an agenda and set up a signal group for the practicalities…
I’m a bit confused with the dates you propose, I assume you made an error? 11/09 is a Wednesday and 12/09 is a Thursday
I’ll let you fix the poll, but for now I can only make the 17th
however, if it’s only an hour, I could do more, but then I’d need to know a more specific timing…
on Wednesdays I work until 19:30 and on Thursdays until 20:00
I don’t know how to reply to a post in the thread, or how to ‘quote a post’, but I’m responding to the remark Els made about me being a facilitator:
to this point, I am indeed a trained facilitator and I could also develop some training for the Reef facilitators
however, as you might imagine and have probably already experienced, facilitating a process you’re involved in yourself is tricky and sometimes not possible, you can try to be aware of the different roles you hold, but if you’re facing a decision in which you have your own interests, it can get very murky
depending on the level of decision making, I would consider a budget for external facilitation, as a backup plan
and maybe we can develop some kind of policy about when to bring in external facilitation or not
I could also help find facilitators, if that would still be a need
In a classic Edgeryders poll malfunction, I did indeed get the dates wrong But noted that you are available on the 17th, and for now, that’s the date for a potential meeting.
I’m not sure what remark of Els you’re responding to, but all of the things you mention in this post are exactly what I would like to discuss in a Team Facilitation meeting
But noted that you are available on the 17th, and for now, that’s the date for a potential meeting.