Live from Chicago!

Giving conference is happening, and we have just finished the first sessions. I attended a session offered by RuthAnn Prange who was floating the idea of convening a conference of facilitators who work for the common good.. The idea came out of her work with the Listening to the City project in New York in 2002.

Basically Ruthann’s idea is top convene a conference of facilitators who work for the common good, whether that is within business organizations, communities or elsewhere. It seems as if there is a community evolving of facilitators who do this and a gathering of some kind, perhaps evolving into a network would be a way of sharing skills, experiences, tools and honing purpose.

One metaphor we were talking about was one that came to me from astronomy. When looking through small scopes at a faint nebula, tapping the scope slightly will often resolve the structure of the body. There were a number of great conributions that went into a tentative inivtation which RuthAnn will share out with us at some point, leading towards a conference. If that interests you, or you have any ideas for her, leave a comment here or on the conference wiki page.