061: What Facilitation Without Agenda Really Means and How to Make It Work with Nadja Petranovskaja
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Intro
Imagine turning up to a workshop to find there is no agenda.
You haven’t walked into a nightmare – quite the opposite, in fact! No Agenda is an innovative approach that Nadja champions to great success.
If you want to know how to encourage groups to own their own responsibility to connect, create, and change, then you’ll want to hear more about running workshops with no agendas from Nadja.
Find out about
Nadja’s journey to facilitation and the experiences that have shaped her practice
Why identifying the group’s “why” is the starting point of a meaningful workshop
How to effectively run a workshop with no agenda
How Nadja is navigating the shift to virtual workshops
How to take the BarCamp structure and apply it in corporate settings
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Questions and Answers
00:52What’s on your mind right now?
02:36What helps facilitators cope in a pandemic?
04:39 What have you consciously unlearned from your early facilitation training?
07:13How do you structure outputs in a workshop with no agenda?
11:47Do you prepare groups for this?
13:23How do you make sure every voice is heard?
18:03What is your favourite exercise to help bring structure to complexity?
21:39What would your advice be to facilitators who are interested in running workshops with no agenda?
24:38What makes a workshop fail?
28:10How have No Agenda workshops coped with moving online during the pandemic?
31:35Can you explain what a BarCamp is?
34:41What is the difference between a BarCamp and a world café in corporate settings?
38:29How do your clients react if you tell them there is no agenda?
40:44Is there anything else you want to bring up?
42:46Would you create another version of your WonderCards for virtual facilitation?
46:46What is one thing you would like listeners to take away from this episode?