2008 Conference Sessions

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Pre-Conference Wednesday Single Day
Pre-1A - (Session Cancelled) INSTRUCTIONAL MOMENTS: Insightful Group Facilitation Through Improv Theater Techniques
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Pre-1B - (Session Cancelled) Digitaldialog: Enhanced Facilitative Practice Through Web 2.0 Tools
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Pre-1C - Conflict Dynamics Profile® Certification Workshop: Another Tool for Facilitator Consultants
Rita Callahan - Collaboration and Conflict Management Consulting
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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Pre-1D - Planning Your Facilitation Business - A Complete Crash Course
Marian Pitters - Pitter Associates
Focus Area: The Business of Facilitation
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Pre-1E - Making Process Designs
Dorothy Strachan - Strachan-Tomlinson
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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Pre-1F - Seven Voices: A Mindfulness-Based Coaching Approach
Doug Silsbee - Doug Silsbee, PCC
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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Pre-Conference Thursday Single Day
Pre-2A - Five Principles of the Skilled Facilitator Approach
Anne Davidson - Roger Schwarz & Associates, Inc.
Roger Schwarz - Roger Schwarz & Associates, Inc.
Focus Area: Fundamentals of Facilitation
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Pre-2B - The Art and Science of Facilitating the Human Pack
Carol Sherriff - Wilson Sherriff
Simon Wilson - Wilson Sherriff
Focus Area: The Business of Facilitation
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Pre-2C - Zero to Participate - Engagement Strategies that Accelerate Participation & Buy-in
Bill Olsen - Olsen Innovations & Leadership Strategies
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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Pre-2D - How to Organize & Facilitate a Charrette
John Monroe - National Park Service - Rivers & Trails Program
Focus Area: Facilitation for Social Change
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Pre-2E - (Session Cancelled) Four Fundamental Facilitation Strategies
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Pre-2F - Facilitation From the Inside Out
Ann Epps - Lens International (M) Sdn Bhd
John Epps - Lens International (M) Sdn Bhd
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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Pre-Conference Wed/Thur Multi Day
Pre-3A - You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: The Facilitator’s Path to Authentic Cross-Cultural Practice
Nanci Luna Jiménez - Luna Jiménez Seminars & Associates
Barbara Mackay - North Star Facilitators
Focus Area: Facilitation for Social Change
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Pre-3B - Whoever Comes is the Right Person: Experience the Open Space Process for Participant-Generated Conferences, Retreats, Task Work and Conflict Transformation
Lisa Heft - Opening Space
Focus Area: Large Group Facilitation
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Pre-3C - (Session Cancelled) Play with a Purpose - Using Experiential Initiatives to Support Group Process
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Pre-3D - The Effective Facilitator Accelerated Workshop
Michael Wilkinson - The Facilitation Company
Focus Area: Fundamentals of Facilitation
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Pre-3E - ToP Group Facilitation Skills
John Miller - ICA Associates Inc.
Ethan Jerry Mings - The Desk
Focus Area: Large Group Facilitation , Fundamentals of Facilitation
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Virtual Pre-Conference Multi-Day
Pre-V1 - (Session Closed) Planning for Success: Translating from a Face-to-Face to a Virtual Agenda
Nancy Settle-Murphy - Guided Insights
Karen Bading - Infrasonics Coaching and Consulting
Charles Feltman
Charles Feltman
Focus Area: Technologies for Enhanced Facilitation
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Concurrent Session A
A1 - Unleashing Wisdom tools for the 21st Century
Robyn Stratton-Berkessel - LIT Global, Inc.
Focus Area: Technologies for Enhanced Facilitation
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A2 - (Session Cancelled) The Leapfrog Legacy: Facilitate To Educate
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A3 - Rebuilding New Orleans: How Large-Scale Citizen Engagement Laid the Foundation for Success
Susanna Haas Lyons - America Speaks
Mattice Haynes - America Speaks
Focus Area: Large Group Facilitation
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A4 - (Closed Session is full)
Sheila L. Margolis - Workplace Culture Institute
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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A5 - (Closed Session is full)
William Noonan - William Noonan Consulting - www.discussingtheundiscussable.com (web site currently under construction.)
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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A6 - Invitational Ethical Leadership
Betty Seigel - Kennesaw State University
Focus Area: Facilitation for Social Change
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A7 - Facilitating Lean Six Sigma with and without Groupware
Ann Schwartz Unitas - Northrop Grumman
Doug Smith - Northrop Grumman
Focus Area: Technologies for Enhanced Facilitation
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A8 - (Closed Session is full)
Larry Dressler - Blue Wing Consulting, LLC
Kriss Wittmann - Wittmann Studios
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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A9 - Teamwork Tango: How to Lead and When to Follow
Yael Schy - Dramatic Strides Consulting
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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A10 - Experiential Discoveries of Diversity with Head and Heart
Susanne Baessler - Baessler Consulting, Inc.
Nettie Pardue - Nettie Pardue
Focus Area: Facilitation for Social Change
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A11 - The Project Meeting Facilitator
Jan Means - Resource Advantage, Inc.
Michael Spivey - Resource Advantage, Inc.
Focus Area: Fundamentals of Facilitation
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Concurrent Session B
B1 - (Session Cancelled) Applying Online 3-D Gaming Technology to Facilitated Virtual Meetings
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B2 - The Leap To Online Communities
John Carroll - Dynamic Directions, Inc.
Focus Area: Technologies for Enhanced Facilitation
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B3 - (Closed Session is full) Changing the
Coleen Davidson, M.Ed. - Chignecto-Central Regional School Board
Focus Area: Fundamentals of Facilitation
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B4 - (Closed Session is full) Thinking Through Complex Facilitation Challenges: 1 Process Framework and 60 Questions that Really Work
Dorothy Strachan - Strachan-Tomlinson
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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B5 - No Bad Contracting Goes Unpunished
Roger Schwarz - Roger Schwarz & Associates, Inc.
Focus Area: The Business of Facilitation
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B6 - The Secrets to Consensus Building: Generate a Consensus-Focused Process
Richard Smith - Leadership Strategies
Focus Area: Fundamentals of Facilitation
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B7 - How Do We Do That? - Sessions That Click - Creating Effective Agendas
David Johnson - Facilitating Change
Colleen Baker - DyBoren Systems, LLC
Focus Area: Fundamentals of Facilitation
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B8 - Building a Values-Driven Organization - Facilitating Cultural Transformation
Ed Manning - Richard Barrett and Associates
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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B9 - Facilitating Conversations about Trust in Teams and Organizations
Charles Feltman - Insight Coaching
Janet Crawford - Crawford Consulting
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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B10 - (Closed Session is full) Conducting a Facilitated Process Mapping Session
Tammy Adams - Chaosity LLC
Jan Means - Resource Advantage, Inc.
Michael Spivey - Resource Advantage, Inc.
Michael Spivey - Resource Advantage, Inc.
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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B11 - The Age of Participation or "Good-bye Authoritarianism"
James Campbell - Institute of Cultural Affairs, Belgium
Focus Area: Facilitation for Social Change
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Concurrent Session C
C1 - Leveraging Knowledge of Personality Type/Preferences in Facilitation Practice
Cynthia Ray, CPF - PeaceHealth
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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C2 - Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills: A Citizen Based Curriculum Training
Jane E. Haskell - University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Focus Area: Facilitation for Social Change
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C3 - (Closed Session is full) Tools to Build Accountability for Outcomes
Marian Pitters - Pitters Associates
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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C4 - Conversations That Change Communities
Joan Colleran Hoxsey, D.Min.,Msed - Relationship Resources LLC
Focus Area: Facilitation for Social Change
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C5 - The Secrets of Energy: Set the Pace, Anticipate the Lulls, React Accordingly
Michael Wilkinson - The Facilitation Company
Focus Area: Fundamentals of Facilitation
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C6 - Facilitation and Brain Science: Cracking the Human Operating Code
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Charles Feltman - Insight Coaching
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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C7 - Building Large Group Consensus From Individual Insights - Results You Can Trust
Jo Nelson - ICA Associates Inc.
Focus Area: Large Group Facilitation , Facilitation for Social Change
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C8 - When Clients Go Bad
John Butcher - Associates In Planning Inc.
Focus Area: The Business of Facilitation
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C9 - (Closed Session is full)
Anne Davidson - Roger Schwarz & Associates, Inc.
Dale Schwarz - The Center for Creative Consciousness
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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C10 - (Session Cancelled) High-Tech and Low-Risk Tools and Interventions for Opening and Building High-Engagement Discussions about Team Trust - Without Ropes!
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Concurrent Session D
D1 - (Closed Session is full)
Izzy Gesell - IzzyG& Company
Focus Area: The Business of Facilitation
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D2 - Collaborative Leaders as Professional Facilitators?
David Spann - Agile Adaptive Management, Inc.
Focus Area: The Business of Facilitation
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Concurrent Session E
E1 - The Key to Business Success - Attracting Clients Who Are Not Like You
Carol Sherriff - Wilson Sherriff
Simon Wilson - Wilson Sherriff
Focus Area: Fundamentals of Facilitation
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Concurrent Session F
F1 - Communities, not Clients. How Web2.0 Changes Everything - Including Your Business.
Holger Nauheimer - Change Facilitation
Focus Area: Technologies for Enhanced Facilitation
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F2 - Seeing Differences: Using Photographs to Facilitate Diverse Groups
Christine Martell - VisualsSpeak
Focus Area: Facilitation for Social Change
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F3 - (Closed Session is full)
Doug Silsbee - Doug Silsbee, PCC
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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F4 - Big Picture Facilitation - Color and Image Build Engagement, Results and Long-term Impact
Martha McGinnis - Visual Logic
Cheryl Kartes - Kartes & Associates
Pattie Porter - Conflict Connections Inc.
Janine Underhill - IDEA 360
Focus Area: Fundamentals of Facilitation
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F5 - (Closed Session is full)
Charlene Phipps, M.S. - Innovative Human Dynamics
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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F6 - The Passionate Practice: Building and Advancing Your Facilitation Business Through Powerful Visioning
Shoshanna Cogan - Shoshanna Cogan, M.S.
Focus Area: The Business of Facilitation
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F7 - (Closed Session is full) Designing Team Interventions
Ingrid Bens - Participative Dynamics
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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F8 - Je vous en prie, MULTILINGUAL FACILITATION, onegaishimasu!
Sheila LeGeros - LeGeros International
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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F9 - The Balance of Differences . . . The Union of Separates
Angelina C. Corbet - The Mobius Company
Focus Area: Advanced Facilitation Techniques
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