April 16 – Richard Moore
Appreciative Inquiry and Dynamic Facilitation
US West coast & Canada Events 2013
I'm interested primarily in activist groups. With so many activist groups in Ashland, what I'd really like to do is facilitate an all-day session, using Appreciative Inquiry and Dynamic facilitation (DF), that includes folks from several of the groups. We would be exploring synergies, how the groups might collaborate, and thinking about creative new activist strategies.
Within a group, it would be either about resolving internal problems, or about reassessing strategy and strengthening focus. Among activist groups, it would be either about resolving conflicts, seeking ways to collaborate, or pooling ideas to come up with more effective activist strategies.
It seems to me there should be plenty of situations where activists are experiencing frustration. Our societies and economies continue to deteriorate, and what we've been doing, as activists, hasn't been reversing these trends. The activists I know here in Ireland are in the process of re-evaluating what they're about, and thinking about how they might work with other groups. I don't think they are unique in thinking that new approaches are needed, in the face of this unprecedented global social crisis.
I've been devoting the past ten years to writing, moderating email lists, and seeking workable answers to some very big questions: How does the world really operate? What would a better world be like? How can we bring about the necessary transformation?”
Richard published Escaping the Matrix, a book that deals with the big questions and envisions solutions centered around community empowerment, inclusive dialog, and the awakening of We the People consciousness.
rkm website: http://cyberjournal.org, www.escapingthematrix.org
profile on the Ashland Resource Center:
http://ashlandsourcecenter.com/profile/RichardMoore
Some of Richard K Moore’s Publications:
- Escaping the Matrix, Whole Earth (#62), September-October, 2000.
- History, structure and future developments of WTO, Presentation to the Special NGO Committee on Development, round table on World Trade Organization (WTO) and its effects on economic, social and cultural rights, Geneva, 12 May 1998.
- Closing the Information Highway, Toward Freedom, December 1997.
- Doublespeak and The New World Order, New Dawn, March-April 1996.
*Dynamic facilitation, created by consultant Jim Rough, is a facilitation style that follows the energy of a group without constraining that energy to agendas or exercises. Using this style, someone can facilitate a highly co-creative process Jim calls "choice-creating." The two terms -- dynamic facilitation and choice-creating process -- are often used interchangeably. […] READ MORE: www.co-intelligence.org/P-dynamicfacilitation.html
Richard Kelly Moore is an American writer living in Wexford, Ireland.
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