Facilitation of Transformation Together

• Facilitation of Transformation Together -- 5 ways of being to identify the place and 10 actions to encourage flow
• Adam Kahen (Author), Riichiro Oda (Translator)
• Amazon
• Faciliatating Breakthrough --- How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together (Adam Kahene, 2021)

This is a book by a leading expert who has been working on the side of human facilitators, not IT technology, to achieve cooperation across social differences, which is the goal of Plurality.

• He was in charge of social, political, economic, and technological scenarios in the scenario planning department of Royal Dutch Shell (early 1990s). He later became independent and led the post-apartheid nation-building dialogue for the 1991-92 "Mont Fleur Scenario Exercise" in South Africa.

• Since then, he has designed dialogues that bring together governments, businesses, civil society, and armed groups in over 50 countries. He has worked on a diverse range of issues, including Colombian peace, Guatemalan peace talks, climate, food, and inequality.

• Approach Features

  • The program emphasizes "transformative scenario planning," "power and love," "working with the enemy," and creating a space that brings out "the minimum direction in which we can move forward together" while confronting differences in power relations and values.

• facilitation

• Trying to bring the place together vertical facilitation. - command and order of top down.

• Respect the individual horizontal facilitation. - bottom-up democratic consensus system - consensus building

• → Argues that a "transformational facilitation" is needed.

  • Sticking to one side or the other can cause stalemate and division.
  • Both constrain collaboration.
  • Need to cycle between the two poles depending on the situation

• relevance - Power and Love - Contributions and Connections

• facilitation

• Work to facilitate group intellectual interaction

• ≈ increase the intellectual productivity of the team.

• Difference from moderating (moderating) a meeting

  • Moderation tends to focus on content
  • Facilitation focuses on process
    • Process: context, member relationships, quality of place
  • Generate: new understanding of members, member relationships, intentions

Five Pairs of Movements

• "Insist" and "explore."
• "Drawing Conclusions" and "Moving On."
• "Drawing a Path in Advance" and "Discovering."
• "Conducting" and "accompanying."
• "Stand Outside" and "Stand Inside."
• Doing is supported by Being.
• 5 Inner Shifts (Changes in Being)
  • Become open.
  • see through
  • Adaptation.
  • Serving.
  • Become a partner

Facilitation Leadership

long-term strategy

• Chapter 6: How to perceive the current situation
• Chapter 7: How to Define Success
  • draw conclusions" and "move forward."
  • It is not a MUST to reach an agreement. - negative capability
    • Moving on with no conclusion.
• Chapter 8: What path to take governance
• Chapter 9: How to Decide Who Does What
• independence ・Independence
• Chapter 10: How to Understand Your Role

remove obstacle.

• Removing obstacles to the appearance of the mystical.
  • Contribution, Connection, Equality
  • Remove barriers to contribution, etc.

Review of previous publications - Collaboration with the Enemy - What facilitators do to get feuding groups to cooperate

• Scenario Planning for Social Change
  • Applicable to Open Space Technology and [U-theory
• What It Really Takes to Change the Future - The power to drive self-actualization - Love that drives us to reconnect
  • this book
    • Structure to achieve power and love = justice
    • These three are the fundamental driving forces, which emerge as [Contribution, Connection, Equality

Both vertical and horizontal facilitation constrain collaboration.

• conflict of interest

  • Overall profit of one group
  • The interests of the individual members of the group

• Transformational facilitation breaks through constraints

• Circulate between vertical and horizontal types

• Circulation removes obstacles.

• - Too much emphasis on [democratic](/en/democratic) decision-making and too much adherence to [horizontal](/en/horizontal) decision-making - Reject [vertical](/en/vertical) decision-making as evil. - This type of thinking is an obstacle to circulation. - [Parable of the Breath](/en/Parable%20of%20the%20Breath)

• Outer and inner game

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