Hosting and Facilitating:
Similarities, Differences and Applications 

with Frances Baldwin

Register Now! 

 

The unique knowledge and experience that each of us brings to our work defines the lens through which we learn, design, and incorporate World Café experiences into our work. 

Professional facilitators, consultants, managers and team leaders are often skilled in designing and facilitating meetings and events to focus and guide the process toward expected outcomes. Most of us know about how facilitation can enhance the quality of a meeting.

While group process knowledge and skills (core competencies to facilitation) complement the task of designing and hosting World Café and other dialogic engagements; the difference between facilitating and hosting rests mainly in what is treated as background and what is treated as figural; the focus and shape of our attention and actions.

Awareness of the distinctions and similarities between facilitating and hosting impacts both your effectiveness as a host and the reliability of your approach.

This session will be held online in a highly participatory format.
Come prepared to be part of the conversation! 

DETAILS

WHERE
Online

WHEN
December 17th, 2019
10am - 12pm Pacific Time
(see a Time Zone Converter for local time in your area) 

COSTS
$98.00 US
30% Discount for Community Table Subscribers & Beehive Productions
Groups of 3 more, contact us for a group rate.

WHO IS THIS FOR? 
This course is suitable for all levels of World Cafe and other participatory practice hosts.

YOUR HOSTS   
M. Frances Baldwin & Amy Lenzo

 

Register Now! 

 

Content Host

M Frances Baldwin is a native Floridian with more than 40 years of international experience as an educator, leadership consultant, and executive coach in a wide range of public sector, private industry and faith organizations. She was a teacher/counselor in the Dade County School System for 11 years including two years as counselor at Miami Dade Community College. As an internal organization development consultant Frances spent 6 years with the City Manager’s Office in Palo Alto, California. She spent 13 years with Exxon’s (Exxon-Mobil) domestic and European petroleum, research and chemical companies, where she designed and facilitated executive education strategies and consulted on several major capital improvement projects.

In 1994 she created Designed Wisdom, Inc., a small consulting/coaching practic

As a senior steward at The World Café Community Foundation she has used conversational engagement as a strategic tool for change and development in a variety of systems. Frances’ clients have included: American Thyroid Association; Raytheon; ComEd Nuclear-Illinois; Princeton Theological; U.S. Navy Bureau of Personnel; USPS; National Health Service of England and numerous others.

Note: This two-hour module is not designed to prepare participants for hosting World Café. See World Cafe Signature Learning Programs for more information on the eight-week World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals program we offer each fall semester in partnership with Fielding Graduate University.