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213 - Unleashing Autonomy: Facilitating Self-Organising Systems with Bob Dick


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What happens to a group when there is no leader, no subordinates, and no sense of hierarchy at all? Bob Dick believes this is the optimal approach to group structures — to be self-organised, not instructed or commanded.

Quite how we can consistently achieve this is another question; one that Bob has been experimenting with for as long as he can remember.

Bob has rich experience in creating self-organising groups, facilitating their development, and knowing what not to do. 

Find out about:

  • Why control — in all directions — is uncomfortable for Bob
  • What happens when we remove the hierarchy from group settings
  • How to initially facilitate a group to then adopt a self-organising system
  • How Bob separates facilitators along a spectrum from sceptic to mystics
  • What a self-organising group — the Australasian Facilitator Network — looks like in real life and how it operates
  • Why the path to self-organising starts with honesty, empathy, and storytelling

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