Insights From the Field

by Ten Directions

Insights, essays, perspectives, and lessons learned while working in the field of facilitative leadership. Authors include our staff, as well as guest contributors.

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Cléo Burke

Finding Ground

“Ground is the place to go when overwhelmed with thoughts and fears. It can hold our confusion with unwavering presence. We can source the earth’s

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Alana Felt

Innovation, Freefall and Not-Knowing

“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” ~Chögyam Trungpa

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Kareen Wong

The art of the container

Silence.  Everyone appears to be staring at me, or the floor. The air feels thick with everything that is not being said, and yet, silence. 

Rebecca Colwell

Feedback: A facilitator’s dilemma

  I was speaking to a friend the other day about a facilitative experience they were having with a group of leaders. I can relate

Cléo Burke

Nurturing Resilient Cultures

Together we can cultivate the culture that is being called for and that we want – Where resilient collectives are fortified in their shared sense

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Rebecca Colwell

What is Weaving Alignment?

I’d love to share an experience from a few years ago that illuminates how facilitative leadership was used to weave alignment and transform culture and

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Nina Nisar and Gracy Obuchowicz

Self-Hosting: A Conversation

Most of us know how to host others. At gatherings we offer to take coats, pour a drink or two, check in now and then

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