If you’re hungry to find ways that groups can adapt to change in fluid, collaborative ways, this podcast conversation with Ria Baeck provides the nourishment of inspiration. She’s a facilitator and author of Collective Presencing, a book and web site exploring how groups can co-create. We explore specific ways that enable people to feel safe to speak and to be themselves in a group. Drawing on learning from The Art of Hosting and circle process, Ria shares how to hold a container for the group to find its own answers. We can enter a flow state with a group, where the collaboration is like a dance. In times of rapid change, this emerging human capacity to co-create will be vital to learn and practice.

Resources and links: 

Kinship: A Hub to Amplify the Power of Community: Check out this web site to learn about Beth Tener’s work, focused on designing for connection in groups and communities of all kinds. You can join the newsletter here.

Ria Baeck’s Web Site: Collective Presencing

World Café

Open Space

Circle Way

The Circle Way (Book)

Ways of Council  - web site

The Fruits of Collaboration - blog post with the graphic Beth described about building foundation of strong relationships before action

Art of Hosting - Syrian refugee story

Questioning to Question Our Assumptions - blog

The Dawn of Everything: A New History (Book)

The Art of Hosting

Open Sourcing Social Change - blog

For a transcript of this episode see: Kinship website

Audio editing by: Podcasting for Creatives