Kerk2013: Het Nieuwe Kerken. Terug naar de wortels van de kerk
This post is not about software development or Scrum. It is an essay that I wrote in preparation of the Dutch conference Kerk2013 that took…
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My first experience with World Café!
A first experiment with World Café: how it worked and how it compares to Liberating Structures.
Five Insights From The Reflexive AI Work Group
"Computers that do the sorts of things that minds do" is how the cognitive psychologist Margaret Ann Boden pragmatically defines Artificial Intelligence. It highlights well the nature of the technological revolution that is unfolding. Where the industrial revolution was about replacing physical labor with steam-powered engines, and
Make Purpose Your Bouncer
A clear purpose helps you decide what belongs in a gathering and what doesn’t. If everything gets in, your bouncer isn’t doing their job.
The Never-Ending Optimism of Workshop Venues
A venue may say a room fits 100 people. A facilitator might look at the same room and say 30. In this post, I share why workshop spaces need more than enough chairs and what I look for when choosing a space where people can actually move, interact, and participate.