Episode #62 with Nancy White

Beyond Facilitation Methods: The Hidden Patterns That Make Meetings Come Alive 

How do we move beyond facilitation as a set of techniques and begin to see it as a way of understanding how people work together?

In this episode of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors, Paul Nunesdea and Martin Duffy are joined by Nancy White—collaboration pioneer, founder of Full Circle Associates, and co-author of The Liberating Structures Fieldbook.

Together, they explore the hidden patterns that shape participation, why Liberating Structures are better understood as a pattern language than a toolkit, and what facilitators can learn from complexity, emergence and everyday "small-f facilitation."

The conversation offers valuable insights for facilitators, leaders, consultants and anyone interested in designing meetings that unlock collective intelligence rather than simply managing discussion.

Key topics include:

• Liberating Structures as a pattern language
• Small-f facilitation and collaborative leadership
• Working with complexity instead of controlling it
• The facilitator as a designer of participation
• Building organisational capability beyond individual meetings

🎥 Watch this episode live on LinkedIn next 28July: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7482891697119543296

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