Unlock Your Collaborative Edge

Today, I left a meeting at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon with a renewed sense that this is a conversation whose time has come.

In the lead-up to Birmingham, I had the opportunity to read a piece of work that deserves our attention. A study led by Hideyuki Yoshioka and Linmin Zhang gathered reflections from 81 facilitators worldwide as part of their AI Persona co-creation project.

If you've been living — as I have — in the world of workshops, facilitation, and digital collaboration, you probably crossed paths with Butter.

In the second month of The Facilitator's Promptbook series, we've turned our attention to what truly transforms a group of people into an engaged session: the ability to listen, share, and co-own the conversation. The February prompts—#8 to #11—were designed to help facilitators and hosts cultivate psychological safety, emotional connection, and...

Architecting a Territory That Heals

January Edition of The Facilitator's Promptbook

Some experiments don't end when the workshop closes. They continue quietly, evolving through reflection, dialogue, and unexpected encounters.

A December Round-up from The Facilitator's Promptbook Series

A True Story of Four Facilitators, One AI, and a Meeting That Went Wrong in All the Right Ways

Now and then, an independent report comes along that forces us to pause and reconsider something we thought we already understood.