Gwyn Wansbrough
Facilitation tips for participation, ditching boring lectures, building authentic connection Hello Friends! Greetings from Barcelona☀️ where the vaccine rollout is as slow as a snail having a siesta🐌. Many thanks for your feedback on the last edition of The Quest. A special shout out to Ali in the US, Claudia in London, Caroline and Viliana […]
Read MoreBuilding connection, icebreaker software tools and more Hello Friends! Greetings from Barcelona ☀️where I have just started the OnDeck Course Creator Fellowship. Big props to Andrew Barry and Jackie Williams for an amazing launch event yesterday. More on that below👇. Many thanks for your feedback on the last edition of The Quest. A special shout […]
Read MoreUncertainty, Re-thinking, and Embracing Ambiguity Hello Friends! Greetings from Barcelona ☀️where we have been on Easter break, enjoying a week-long staycation. Many thanks for your feedback on the last edition of The Quest. I loved hearing your comments on my new Creativity Kickstarter e-book. If you haven’t seen it yet you can download it for free here💥. A […]
Read MoreHello Friends! Greetings from Barcelona. ☀️ If you are joining The Quest for the first time, welcome to our weekly exploration of creativity, facilitation, and learning. 🙌 🤔Why is it that in some groups you feel comfortable putting yourself out there and speaking up? And in others, you hold back? In some groups, you bond quickly with […]
Read MoreThrough years of research, collecting data, and thousands of interviews, Google’s Aristotle Project found that the single most important ingredient to making a team work boiled down to one thing: Psychological safety. The same is true for learning effectively in groups. People learn best when they feel safe to take risks, speak their minds, and […]
Read MoreThe Surprising Science of Learning, Free Courses and more Hello Friends! Greetings from Barcelona☀️. Many thanks for your feedback on the last edition of The Quest and on my new Creativity e-book. A special shout out to the following people: Joan in Mansfield, Mamen in Barcelona, Maria in Miami, Michaele and Barry in Bracebridge, Romy in […]
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🧊I used to dread leading icebreakers. The mere mention of the word “icebreaker” brought up all kinds of awkward memories for me. I got flashbacks of my overly enthusiastic camp counselor asking me to do things that I didn’t feel comfortable doing. I had to face my own resistance. When I started facilitating groups, I […]
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Have you ever felt overwhelmed after an online session? I had been sitting in front of my computer for an hour. I was listening to our online course instructor tell us everything he knew on the topic. Like a Formula 1 driver, he was racing through slides, graphs, and frameworks. He came to a screeching […]
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Do you ever wonder if there are people in your virtual sessions who may not be sharing what’s on their minds? I wonder about this a lot. In my early online training sessions, I could sense that some participants were holding back. I knew they had something to say, but I couldn’t figure out how […]
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✋ Hands up if this sounds familiar: You’re preparing an online presentation. You’ve got loads of great content you want to share with your audience. You prepare your talking points and a killer slide deck. You want to provide as much value to your audience as possible. So you whizz through bullet points, graphs, and […]
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Hello friends, Greetings from Barcelona.☀️ 🙌Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️ If you were forwarded this, you can subscribe and receive The Quest straight to your inbox every Monday👇 📢 Registration for Breakthrough Facilitation Opens […]
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Hello friends, Greetings from Barcelona.☀️ 🙌Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️ If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe and receive The Quest straight to your inbox every Monday👇 📢A big announcement is coming… […]
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