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What does facilitation have in common with quantum physics? What do organisations have to do with molecules? And why when you ask a question, are you playing around with someone’s mind?

All will be revealed this week with Jimmie White! A seven-times best-selling author, an indomitable facilitator that has trained The Peace Corps and supported NASA with somatic integration, and in a past life, a teacher of ballroom dancing.

It’s perhaps not surprising then, that Jimmie’s facilitation is alive with somatic movement, storytelling - and even neuroscience. It’s something Jimmie calls ‘Walking Your Story’: a physical navigating of group narratives, helping us to rewrite our stories, explore multiple outcomes, and bond with others in the steps we take.

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• Jimmie’s ‘Walking Your Story’ method, and how it can foster deep reflection, transformation and connection
• The Observer Effect of Quantum Physics and what it means for facilitation
• How physical movement can change our relationship with past stories
• The methods of somatic storytelling and socratic thinking
• The importance of fostering psychological safety in personal storytelling

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Sometimes, just sometimes, you meet someone who is a balm to the soul, who speak words of wisdom, magic, and nurturing depth. Quanita Roberson has this gift - and she returns to the show to share it with us once again!

Mingling spiritual intelligence with raw human experience, Quanita guides us generously through the messy yet beautiful terrain of healing, as we trace emotions back to their source and learn how to step away from adolescent adulthood.

She brings us into the heart of questions like: how do we grieve? What does courage really mean? And why do people find it easier to talk about gender than race?

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• Why shame, blame and guilt are not emotions, but rather where we go to hide from them
• The initiations of our life, and why we must embrace crumbling to make space for the new
• The importance of going inwards to find our wisdom to help the world
• Why there aren’t different ways to grieve, but rather different ways to avoid it
• The importance of embodying our emotions, allowing them to move through us

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A pair of flimsy plastic headphones, a voice in your ears bombarding you with dates, names and historical periods, and a momentary pause at each work of art as you side-step the seemingly disinterested guided tour.

If this sounds familiar, then museum facilitator and author Claire Bown is here to bring the museum alive for you! She reimagines the experience by making space for curiosity, conversation and participant-led interaction, turning passive presentations and fleeting glances into a treasure trove of stories, deep connection and meaning.

Join Claire to slow down, welcome in a little more wondering, and discover what museum exploration can teach us about the art of participation.

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• The role of the museum environment in facilitating the experience
• Strategies for engagement, from visual thinking to slow looking
• Why we must give space for observation, before jumping into explanation
• How to achieve equal participation by re-designing group formation
• How to acknowledge and invite in existing knowledge from the group

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Can we explore the future as if it were an archaeological site? Instead of predicting trends or following hype cycles, future archaeologist Markus Iofcea uncovers artifacts - fragments of possible futures - that help us rethink what’s to come.

Future archaeologist, co-author of the book Zurück zur Zukunft, and all-round inspiring mind, Markus Iofcea, is here to tell us that yes, the future can be ours to create! He digs in the future to see what treasures he can find in its vast archeological site - except his artefacts aren’t the rare remnants of a civilisation gone-by, but rather inventions we are yet to make. Inventions that could change the world!

From there, he hypothesises his discoveries infinitely - helping organisations to philosophically explore contexts, variations and parameters to test if an innovation will work well beyond our current, limiting reality.

This was one of those rare, fascinating conversations that you won’t want to miss - thank you for setting my mind alight, Markus!

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• What future archaeology is and how Markus explores the possibilities of the future
• Future artefacts: what they are, how to dig them out, and how to innovate them
• The importance of removing an artefact from our current context to prepare for the unknown
• Why we must ‘dig’ at an innovation for as long as possible, interrogating its logical components
• How Markus helps the corporate world to excavate innovations, free from limitations and predictions

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Facilitation isn’t just about guiding a process—it’s about creating meaning. And in this episode, Jim Kalbach, author of The Jobs To Be Done: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs, shares how facilitation and Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) go hand in hand.

We dive into the art of moving from insight to action, exploring how facilitators and leaders can use JTBD to break through assumptions, foster collaboration, and design experiences that truly serve the people they’re meant for.

Jim shares his own journey—from journey mapping to facilitation—revealing how shifting the focus from solutions to human needs changes everything.

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• Why facilitation isn’t just about neutrality—it’s about shaping meaningful outcomes
• The power of customer journey maps as tools for conversation and sense-making
• How Jobs to Be Done helps teams focus on real human needs, not just solutions
• Why co-creation leads to better collaboration, alignment, and decision-making
• How to avoid “workshop amnesia” and keep momentum alive after a session
• Practical ways to embed customer-centric thinking into everyday work

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It’s an art form, but it’s not rocket science. It’s courageous, but it’s not not cushy or comforting. And it’s saying no in meaningful ways, rather than saying yes to everything.

Psychological safety is as much about what it’s not, as what it is. It’s a phenomenon that’s nuanced, ephemeral and often misconceived, asking all of us - facilitator and participant - to hold out our arms to discomfort, take risks, make mistakes and dance in our humanness.

But to achieve it, and then keep it alive for everyone, takes great self-awareness, emotional regulation - and for us facilitators to feel safe first. Join me for a special solo episode - an hour dedicated entirely to the art of psychological safety!

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• My 4 practical tips for leaders to create psychological safety around you
• And 4 ways leaders can build psychological safety for themselves
• Beyond the buzzword, what does it really mean to achieve psychological safety?
• Why small mistakes can evolve into bigger risks when safety is absent
• Making every voice count, and feel safe, with the power of using “Yes, and ___”
• The importance of cultivating your own emotional literacy and setting boundaries

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As executive coach Akshay Kapur will tell you, silence isn’t just a pause - but spaciousness that allows for someone to jump into its still, shiny waters.

And our conversation this week was a celebration of these gorgeous, ripe spaces in between. The moments before asking the right question, the invitation that comes before an answer, and the needs that reveal themselves when we listen deeply, and lean in with full, unbridled curiosity.

Akshay brings beautiful, articulate thoughts to some facilitation truths, sharing how he steps from coach to facilitator, and finds his wisdom from the unknown.

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• Where facilitation and coaching meet, and where they depart
• How to create space for participants to reflect and engage in thoughtful dialogue
• The importance of asking the right question, by interrogating the need behind the need and being prepared for a potential trauma response
• Why facilitation can teach us something about ourselves every time we leave the room
• Tuning into the different energetic requirement of in-person and online facilitation

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Bringing beautiful indigenous wisdom to the complexities of trauma-resolution is Louise Marra. A facilitator and occasional human-fielder, Louise joins me for a conversation about finding our way back: to a healed state, to the earth, to ourselves. 

Louise opens up her trauma first aid kit in episode 309: what to do when trauma arises in group dynamics, how to resource yourself, how to reroot the fields of organisational trauma, and what to do in a state of freeze.

Once we can unlearn our patterns, we can begin to repair our ruptures, and return to the healed place we once inhabited. What a treat it was to have this important, life-affirming conversation with Louise!

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• The different types of inherited trauma that can affect group work - and how facilitators can hold space for participants
• The paradox of psychological safety, from confrontation to weaponisation
• Constellation work: what it is and how you can use it to access fields of intelligence
• The process of ‘rupture and repair’ to retune the muscles of trauma
• What organisational trauma means and how we can supports its healing
• How to work with our own triggers in order to grow

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The journey of the facilitator is rarely linear. It’s often happily accidental, a little squiggly, and punctuated with moments of imposter as we take it from the side-hustle shadows, to big centre-stage business.

And Kerri Price can attest to this - after facilitating for what felt like a lifetime, she found herself pressing pause - only to return to the facilitation world with fresh, mindful clarity.

Kerri joins us to generously share her facilitation story, the lessons she’s learnt in business, and the beauty she found in breaking away to rebalance her priorities. From finding our facilitation happy place, to finding our way through the seasons of life, episode 308 is all about the bits that bring us joy!

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• The common misconceptions about facilitation and starting a business
• The importance of asking: what is the most generous thing I can do for the group right now?
• Why facilitators must embrace acceptance and learn to be ok with the unexpected
• How to navigate the energetic demands of facilitation - and life’s seasons
• The importance of setting the right emotional tone for the group

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If joy was an episode, then it would be episode 307. Welcome back, for the third time, to Jacques The Party Scientist, sober rave host, and social norm disruptor!

I’ve witnessed Jacques’ journey for quite some years now as he’s facilitated joy, spread his natural antidepressants, and created experiences that unite people through the hedonism of human connection.

He joins us with a party bag of life-affirming, inspiring ideas; from the natural forces of neuroscience, to taking social risks, and being misunderstood - but doing it anyway. Feel the flood of neurochemicals with Jacques, as he brings his goofy, gorgeous, full-of-life self.

Find out about:

• How Jacques facilitates joy and creates the mental health tonic of human connection
• The 3 Cs of Joy: Cultivate physiological state, Celebrate social risks and Co-create community
• Expressing our needs through the liberating act of Radical Honesty
• How Jacques designs psychologically safe spaces that allow people to push past fear 
• Sober raves, consensual hugging and platonic intimacy 

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