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I’m always on the lookout for intervention design examples and I found one last week I think you’ll like. But before I describe it, remember …

The actKM list has a discussion underway to collect stories of how people have (either successfully or otherwise) tried to get management support for their …

A few months ago I facilitated an open space session for a group of knowledge coordinators working in a government agency. We spent the day …

Mark, Andrew and I spent Monday and Tuesday at the Australian National University’s Symposium on Meaning Making in Organisations. The event was organised by Paul …

In October for the past 36 years Half Moon Bay in California holds a pumpkin competition. The biggest pumpkin grown in a season wins. One …

My nine year old daughter (she’s now 13) is an avid reader. She loves the Harry Potter series and reads them repeatedly. This voracious appetite for …

I started blogging in 2002, first using Radiolands then Blogger. As many Anecdote readers would be unaware of my ordinal posts I thought I would …

It was during one of my first strategic planning workshop facilitations when I noticed it. This was in a time before I discovered open space facilitation. The …

In 2004 I helped a large bank conduct a narrative project to examine trust in a call centre. They had just finished working on their …

Catching up with Johnnie Moore for lunch was great. During lunch we got onto the topic of ‘What is facilitation, anyway’. Drawing on the wisdoms (or …