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The Happy Healthy Social Change Activist: Passion for a Cause without Burnout

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! Next we did a series of small group exercises for participants to identify their stress triggers and reactions to stress. Here’s a quick video.

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The Art of Gathering: A Fabulous Book to Help You Host Better Meetings and Events

Museum 2.0

but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on. Here are my three big takeaways from The Art of Gathering : Hosting is an exercise in courageous leadership. Creating event-specific rules can level the playing field, make the implicit explicit, and create a specific culture for the event. First names only.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

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So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. That facilitator has to be able to manage many different personalities, the different cultures, different experiences. And there was a lot of cultural misunderstandings, something very basic. How do we do this well? That was one really fun example. .

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Strange(r) Encounters: Conditions for Engagement

Museum 2.0

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters.

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FInding the Right Questions (For Visitor Dialogue)

Museum 2.0

Is it just an exercise in giving visitors a fake voice? Of course, the corollary to the personal is to try to ask questions that are universal and do not leave anyone out because of cultural bias etc. Tags: participatory museum usercontent inclusion. And more than that, it begs the question: why did I ask him in the first place?

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Program Comfort: Events that Draw People Out

Museum 2.0

The club members believe in the health benefits of laughter, and they engage socially in several laughter exercises: laughing at each other, laughing with tongues sticking out, laughing while shaking hands, and so on. Tags: programs participatory museum comfort. This doesn’t have to mean elf or spy.

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