Authentic conversation is our natural human way of thinking together, yet in far too many of our meeting experiences, we are ‘talked at’ instead of engaged, and ‘told’ instead of being invited to share our knowledge and explore emerging ideas and possibilities. In this interactive program centered around three facilitation methods (World Café, AI, Open Space "Quickie"), we will demonstrate how to: quickly energize and engage meeting participants around any topic; how to tap collective intelligence and generate new knowledge; and how to craft powerful and compelling questions.

Brenda Chaddock - With 30 years experience in change initiatives and community based leadership with organizations, professional associations and communities, Brenda is trained to facilitate a variety of individual, small, and large group processes including Appreciative Inquiry, Dialogue, Open Space Technology, Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversation, Peer Leadership for the Community of the Future, and Legacy Leadership®. She brings to facilitation her passion for compelling, evocative questions and a profound belief in the power of what we can create in the world, when we live at the edge of all our possibilities. Brenda co-delivers the Masterful Facilitation Institute with Myriam.