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Sense maker working with large groups, designing viable sustainable futures. @Americas @Africa @Europe @companies @NGOs @government @entrepreneur

A licensed Management 3.0 trainer and Agile coach with many years of experience of working with a variety of organizations from start-ups to international enterprise corporations. The main focus of my training is Agile Leadership practices and its applications in the organization culture. As a Coach, I am not going to tell your organization what to do but will help you to find the right solution on your own. My current passion is building an engaging creative-work culture in the team, company and community levels by using a variety of creative concepts from coaching to business games . Co-author of A Scrum Master's Practical Toolbox book. My motto is "Delivering Value".

Many years ago my curiosity and passion were ignited around how we might be, meet and work together in a different way. From that journey I’ve found my place in this world as a participatory process designer and facilitator, hosting and harvesting conversations that matter. I work with organizations, communities and individuals to invite collaboration, facilitate participatory gatherings, and harvest the fruits of those conversations for sustainable progress. I create space for people to turn towards each other for meaningful conversation, where all voices are welcomed and heard. My work happens in meetings, gatherings, conferences and more, designing circle-based participatory dialogue processes to create a container for leadership and wise action to emerge. I live on the beautiful west coast of BC with my sweetie and our great Dane Maya, and I'm so glad to be here with the Group Works community!

Hey, I'm a musician, facilitate lots of groups, and just got a deck. Yay! I look forward to using it for things planned, intuited, and unknown... Thanks for doing all this work!

Chair of Board of Trustees

Independent facilitator

coach consultant facilitator who helps people work together, based in Marseilles, south of France. I travel a lot to Réunion Island, a french island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

Dive in, follow the energy and trajectory will be made clear!

I am happy go lucky person. Professor of Strategic Design Management at National Institute of Design in India. Like to deal with people and group. It works, it helps, it gives enjoyment.

I like the topic and I can see that I can learn a lot.

I am on a mission to demystify the science of learning and the craft of teaching. As a seasoned technologist, designer and education executive I assist organizations with some of the following challenges: * Curriculum Design & Teacher Training * Organizational Design including Purpose and Vision * B2B Product Design and Delivery My professional background is diverse. I bring a deep knowledge of narrative, technology, marketing and comedy to every aspect of my work. Past and present projects includes transmedia writing, marketing, creative concepting, alternate reality game design and mobile game design. I have over a decade of web development and graphic design experience.

Hi, I live in the UK and I have just come across your website and your cards. I am in the process of setting up a community based group and I think your cards would work really well within the group settings.

Permaculturalist

I focus on the ripple effects of restorative practices and eradicating systemic injustice. I'm currently finishing up my PhD dissertation which explores the ripple effects of higher education behind bars by using restorative, critical, and leadership theories.

I am a macro social work student interested in doing community outreach and work.

Working in environmental education and volunteer coordination. Interested in permaculture and learning how to be a better facilitator.

Working in environmental education and volunteer coordination. Interested in permaculture and learning to be a better facilitator.

I'm a collaboration consultant working with organizations to bring successful collaboration and social business capacities to their organizations, business systems, processes and culture to generate new value, advance workforce engagement.

I am a teacher, a designer of educational processes (from brief learning experiences to entire schools), and a group facilitator, based in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. I love the pattern language approach of Group Works. I am designing a pattern language for a learner-centered K-8 or K-12 school. I am a trainer and co-owner of the international Genuine Contact program. I am also designing a new K-8 school, the Olivette School, which will open its doors in 2018 in the mountains of North Carolina. I am particularly interested in connecting with others who are using the Group Works approach to design schools and other educational organizations.

Active in and co-founder of a number of local change groups; work in qualitative science of human experience and attendant education (Waldorf high school physics).

Entrepreneur, Visionary & Technologist — iOS Developer & Author — Associate Faculty in Sustainable MBA program at Bainbridge Graduate Institute

I'm a long time community activist and organizational change facilitator working a lot with educational institutions. I love using the cards for a variety of scenarios and find they always bring levity and depth to group work everywhere.

Member of sustainability gtroup. Teacher. Landworker.

David is an award-winning facilitator and community development practitioner, who has also worked in cultural planning, informal education, and executive assistant the Director of Planning for the 3rd largest city in Canada. David uses his twenty years of creative and civic government experience to lead teams on how to engage citizens, employees, and customers so to make better decisions. David was Engage Lead City of Calgary’s Cultural Transformation Project from August 2012- September 2014, helping the city’s administration define a Corporate Culture that can help build an organizational culture capable of fulfilling the one-hundred-year vision of imagineCalgary. As part of this work, David used the Groupwork cards to help consult with over 8000 city employees t – the largest employee consultation in the city’s history. AWARDS using the cards Facilitation Impact Awards - Platinum Award - International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Organization of the Year - International Association For Public Participation (IAP2)

Senior trainer and professional facilitator at the Spanish Facilitation Institute since 2014. Over the past four years, He has  been actively engaged with the Spanish transition network, the degrowth community, and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), where they worked as a consultant and facilitator for five years.  He has an extensive experience in diverse projects and organizations across Europe and Africa, spanning grassroots movements, local government, environmental NGOs, research groups, universities, cooperatives, and large corporations. His  expertise encompasses various facilitation disciplines, including organizational systemic facilitation, process work, conflict resolution, Dragon Dreaming, Nonviolent Communication, Art of Hosting, and Visual Facilitation. Last year, He served as a guest lecturer in the Master Program for Political Ecology and hold a significant role as a senior consultant and facilitator in partnership with La Rioja University and the Pagoda Chair at Valencia University.

Natural and Human Systems Ecologist and facilitator of collaborative solutions for sustainability

I'm a facilitation student, learning from groups how to deal with diversity and limits.

I love Lemmings and Tribbles

Hi! I have been involved in various types of groupwork for many years. This deck is a really exciting resource–which I hope to introduce to the Palestinian NGO, The Holy Land Trust where I am currently volunteering. They are teaching leadership, non-violence philosophy and "thinking outside the box" especially to Palestinian women. Very exciting!

Pattern Language geek (studied with Chris Alexander, worked as an architect with A Pattern Language over many years). Now doing digital things. Strong advocate for Pattern Languages as tools for getting to grips with all sorts of complex domains (human interaction is highly complex!). Progressive Ethics Projects looks to take the idea of networks of patterns a stage further - to conceive of them as externalised structures for shared understanding - interactive tools which can be used to build networks of ideas and to support continuous engagement and refinement communities.

Senior HR Consultant - Recruiter - Coach - All-Round Connector I coach business women (fellow inner-adventurers) who feel overwhelmed, lack focus or struggle with self-esteem. They get clearer & transition careers, midlife & spiritual expansion by choice. I also help businesses with HR, Change and Communications. Me: Align business life consciously with inner nature Curious generalist, life-long-learner 20+ years business experience in IT, HR, Oil & Gas, Education, Retail, & Not-For-Profit Creative, bright, problem solving attitude & business acumen Strategic: identify commonalities & connections between disciplines, ideas, & people Keen insight to simplify workflows Intuitive, analytical, holistic & politically astute Challenge & support with diplomacy and respect Deeply interested in personality typing: Myers-Briggs; Enneagram; Marston Model; DISC; Insights; & Social Styles Indicator Facilitate The Work of Byron Katie Business: •Since 2005 consultancy HR projects: career transition, policy review & writing; coaching managers; training & development; investigations & resolutions; compensation analysis; benefits; recruiting - IT Technical/Functional, accounting & sales. • 7 years HR in IT Consulting: managing change through merger, acquisition & rebrand. Delivered on hiring strategies in partnership with multiple managers in five branches across Canada. Conducted client reviews of staff - 360° Review Process. Frontline on-boarding, HR, Benefits & career development coaching. • 13 years Sales, Marketing, Fund-raising & Volunteer Management: Internal audit; strategic analysis; market research; donor retention strategies; business plans; targeted data collection plans; created inventory systems; statistical analysis of fund-raising campaigns; designed and wrote marketing collaterals.

It was through Sue Woerhlin, Professor, and Wonderful Person, at Antioch University Seattle, from whomI learned about this wonderful meeting facilitation tool. I will be using the cards to facilitate a new Spanish conversation group at a local retirement community to start up April 16, 2015. The group is for individuals who love the Spanish language, and have an affinity for the peoples/countries where Spanish is spoken, which, of course, includes the U.S.! I hope to facilitate lively and enjoyable conversations in Spanish where folks can feel relaxed, enthused and enjoy ownership in the way in which our group evolves. Thanks! so much for creating these cards. Mil gracias! ~ Dolores

I am a retired univ. professor and am currently participating in several communities/groups that have process and need more: Pleasant Hill Co-Housing (very good process overall) Diablo Valley Threshold Singers (a chapter of Threshold Choir; thresholdchoir.org) and Eco-Sattva training. I am looking at ways to be more effective as a group leader/facilitator and use my skills to help us move toward a better balance within Gaia's systems. My late husband, John Heider, wrote The Tao of Leadership and The Tao of Daily Living, and I learned a great deal from him.

Donna Mills lives in the aesthetically stunning Pacific Northwest, specifically in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. She is a woman committed to all things that elevate human consciousness. She is a practitioner of the healing arts, an advocate for civil conversations, and a community educator. Donna is the founder of HumanWell Integrative Healing and Wellness where she sees private clients healing through trauma and grief. On the community consulting side of HumanWell, Donna designs integrative workplace wellness programs for large and small businesses. The name HumanWell was created out of her unwavering need to know “How do we human well? We can see where we are missing the mark in society, but where and how are we getting it right?” Donna is a certified caring economy advocate and partnership practitioner through Riane Eisler’s Center for Partnership Studies. She is a fierce advocate for a new narrative of economic justice that elevates our collective human wellness and ability to thrive. Donna is a social healing practitioner, a narrative disruptor, and a cultural change agent. She is here to invite society into a deeper conversation about civility and connectivity. She believes that, “and justice for all” means just that. For all.

Group process enthusiast with fitness/health/dance/self-empowerment focus throughout my career as a physical therapist.

Facilitator of Integrative, Co-creative and Adaptive Solutions for Sustainable Enterprise

Lawyer; Consultant; Team leader - facilitator.

I am new to the Card Deck. My interactions are mostly with small church communities specifically in The Episcopal Church. I am really interested in increasing my facilitation skills. I am familiar with and use many techniques/tools from participatory leadership contexts.

I work in group with Matrix of Mukara Meredith

I am deeply interested in creating connections between people through the use of arts and conversation.

I am an educator, and am actively involved in group work, both in my professional life as an educator, and in my personal life, through regular family council to men's work with the Mankind Project.

Bilingual Independent Person Centered Planning Facilitator in the Ottawa region. Currently working on the Independent Facilitation Demonstration Project funded by MCSS of Ontario, for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

Friend of facilitators, autonomous facilitator, involved in innovation, change and emergence. Worked for over 25 years as a catalyst of processes. I

I am a mom, partner, sister, daughter, learner, facilitator, window maker, reader, picture taker (not a photographer :D), I was introduced to your cards through Chris Corrigan and promptly purchased the deck. Thank you to everyone involved I am excited to begin using them!

Years of experience as a co-houser, and with policy governance, and with other smallish egalitarian groups.

Jim Karpe is the father of two young adults with developmental disabilities.  His daughter currently attends a community college, and his son works in Central Park as a volunteer grounds-keeper.  Jim works in IT as a manager of technical teams, and as an Agile Strategist and Coach.  As a volunteer, he runs the special needs division of West Side Soccer League, is parent co-chair of the Queens Council on Developmental Disabilities, and is on the Steering Committee of NYC FAIR.

I am a Senior Managing Partner, OD consultant and executive coach, with the Global Coaching Alliance LLC. I am active in the Philadelphia Region Organization Development Network, where I was introduced to the Group Work cards.

I support and facilitate Startups to move forward.

Advocate of NVC; and of Dynamic Governance (a.k.a. "Consensus 2.0") -- like Consensus, but scalable, to work in large organizations (as well as small).

Currently I am a Masters of Social Work student at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA, USA. The masters project I will be working on next year is to help local (rural) nonprofits discern their challenges and develop strategies that will work for their agency and will meet those challenges. My intention is to use action research, include myself in the group of participants and pull from all the knowledge and experiences of staff, volunteers, and directors of a local nonprofit.

I design and facilitate Undonfereces

PhD Student in Global & Sociocultural Studies at Mt. San Antonio College. Interests include Materiality, Technology program, Computer science, Religion, and Museology. My research interests vary between Materiality, Religion, and Museology. I find ex-votos and other forms of devotional offerings fascinating, particularly as the topic has few boundaries (we find offerings across a wide scope of time and space). I also focus on museums, objects, and displays from a curatorial perspective as well as through theoretical interpretations of narrative and display.

Hobby linguist and student of philosophy; explorer; software guy.

A. Keala Young Keala is a permaculture teacher, mentor, consultant and whole systems designer with a foundation in yoga and the healing arts. His rich study of permaculture and ecovillage design includes certificate programs from Findhorn Foundation to Esalen Institute as well as full-time engagement co-founding Atlan A Living and Learning Center near the Columbia River Gorge in Central Cascadia. A life-long learner he is currently completing the documentation for his Permaculture Diploma with a focus on Ecovillage Design and Education with an emphasis on educational implementation.

I'm a Learning Developer with the BC Government. I just attended a class with Dan Doherty and we are requested to make a contribution of a Group works card map. I've tried already to register but never received confirmation. Dan says it should only take a day so I'm sending my request again. Thank you, Kristine

I facilitate people, teams and organisations in problem solving using collaborative methods like agile, lean and design thinking. Most of us have challenges or opportunities they are trying to navigate.

I am a recent graduate of Seattle University's Organization Systems Renewal masters program (now a program under Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI). Previously I retired from a 30 year public service career. Today I am seeking a vocation where I can help co-create adaptive cultures in human systems. My work includes fostering dialogue so that groups can create shared meaning and purpose and make positive change in the world.

I've been working with a portfolio of methods called "liberating structures" to build capacity for everyone to use high engagement methods day-to-day.

I have worked as a Management Development Consultant, Team Development Facilitator, and Personal Development Tutor and have an MSc in Human Resource Development. Subsequently, I have Chaired Community environmental organisations and facilitated community events. In recent years I have been teaching my own courses, in person and online.

I am an aspiring peace practitioner currently working towards my Master's degree in Conflict and Dispute Resolution at the University of Oregon. I completed my undergraduate studies in meaning centered cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon. I am currently interning in a Courageous Conversations based curriculum at Churchill High School looking at race, privilege and gender, while also pursuing studies in facilitation of difficult conversations, strategic peace-building, structural violence, transitional justice and social justice in education.

I am a Certified Professional Facilitator and co-author of Building United Judgment, a Handbook for Consensus Decision Making, circa 1980. I primarily work with multidisciplinary groups when agreement matters. I teach how to design and facilitate meetings. I am based in Philadelphia.

Software developer and civic entrepreneur. Iraq War veteran.

I am enlivened and energized by contributing to building relationships and community that are based in the realization that there is no one whose contribution we do not need.

Hi I'm Maggie Taylor from Brisbane, Australia. I am a visual artist, and a member of an international meditation group where I am a student & volunteer facilitator. I came across the Groupworks website by chance and discovered the Groupworks cards which I have ordered. I am looking forward to studying the cards and exploring how the process works. From what I have read so far I think they could be very beneficial to our organisation.

I am a Master´s student in Human Systems Intervention at Concordia University (Montreal), with a passion for working with groups to help them discover their strengths and challenges, finding better ways of working together to achieve goals and learn.

As a learning strategist in the post-secondary education sector, I am interested in communication, personal growth, and positive psychology.

I'm a community cultivator and permaculture teacher, currently immersion offering coaching in conflict resolution and dynamic governance to a co-housing ecovillage in Portland.

I'm a life coach drawing upon my 30+ years of experience in nonprofit child and family services to coach human service professionals at transition points in life and career. This involves both individual and group work. I also provide early childhood consultation and coaching, facilitating meetings, training, and writing on topics related to infants, toddlers and their families. I'm a masters-degreed Nationally Certified Counselor, a Board Certified Coach, an avid though not very fast bicyclist and a lover of creative approaches to thinking, working and living.

I am a community front line worker who is working in collaboration with many service providers in the community. I am totally hooked on the Art of Hosting and the Harvesting.

I am an entrepreneur, interdisciplinary thinker, attention economist, activist advocate, inventor, consultant, social artist, cultural creative & social architect. I've dedicated my life to increasing the impact social change makers have on society. Both my life and professional experiences have afforded me the opportunity to gain the insight of how a sense of community can be formed anywhere in various ways. With that knowledge I strive to help globally shift the current paradigm we all live in to a new one that benefits us all, as well as the planet. I'm often found building bridges between niche groups of social change movements, and helping translate between thought leaders found within them. My solution-centered thinking,tenacious and straightford style has garnered respect internationally having many people seek me out for counsel and mentorship. Seeing that there was a significant need for information and instruction regarding founding and starting social good type programming, movements, and intentional communities I took part in the development of The Transition (www.thetransition.org) creating a hub where like-minded proactive people could unify their good work efforts and exchange experiences from the trenches. I'm a research driven, lifelong learner, who uses that knowledge to build stronger relationships among communities and with individuals from around the world. You can find me online at: http://www.facebook.com/nicole.bienfang

Heartland Network Community & Conscious Business Alliance

At this point in my life I work in Boston in an academic medical center doing business process analysis, for want of a description. I think in systems and when I learn about something I need to find a way to learn it from both outside in and inside out. In my work I am very interested in understanding how interpersonal and organizational factors, workflow processes, and software systems align ( or not! ) to support a larger vision of the organization. In my non-work time I walk with my dogs and my wife, talk abstract and landscape photographs, do small home improvement projects and am getting more involved in the "maker" community.

Training Manager for challenge course vendor.

Paul Nunesdea is the English author name of Paulo Nunes de Abreu, author and publisher of Architecting Collaboration, a book series about group facilitation. Paul has specialized in creating and nurturing communities of practice, namely in the education and healthcare sectors in Portugal and Spain, where he designs interventions to optimize change within regional and national governments.

Phil applies his engineering and consulting backgrounds to help build relationships and facilitate change for community initiatives. His focus is applying systems thinking and mapping techniques to increase community resilience. Areas of work include asset mapping, local food systems, local economies, ecological literacy, and worldview transitions.

Project manager interested in participatory democracy

Community Organizer and Cohousing Coach, co-creating Cohousing California and East Bay Cohousing, building on the deck to create Cohousing Cards, selections with additional guidance specific for these intentional neighborhoods. I love to visit places and do workshops with the cards and help people think about them in new ways (including just figuring out what to do with the cards). As of early 2019, I believe I've done the most reselling of decks, bringing them to conferences and communities in the course of my travels. I'm planning on doing some conference calls and webinars to explore applications of the cards.

I am a German Visual Facilitator, living in Italy, and know Alexander's Pattern Language since ages. I am interested if we could do something together.

Hello Can i use the cards in a workshop ? In some weeks i will have a workshop about groups process and your cards would be very usefull

My work focuses on helping leaders improve the structure of everyday meetings. See www.meetingforresults.com for more.

Soy profesor de religión de adolescentes en Panamá. Combino mi práctica de Orientación Familiar y Coaching Integral. Me encanta su labor. Me va a ayudar mucho.

I am a family life coach and trainer for family entrepreneurs. My coaching is based on thought mastery using thinking strategies and systems. I help parents provide a new learning environment for their kids, for themselves, and for their business.

I provide community and global development programs and projects, facilitating consciousness raising and creative collaboration, to help people families, communities and nature.

My name is Shannon and I am a Training Specialist at Google (powered by Adecco). I love facilitating groups and I'm excited to learn more about these group process patterns so I can use them when I facilitate workshops.

I am a group facilitator and certified coach. I live in Melbourne, on the south-east coast of Australia. I am very interested (excited really) about how we construct our reality and how we hold our selves and our perceptions in place by non-verbal, non-cognitive, assumptive patterns and schemas. There seem to be complementary sets of dynamics including safety-reactivity-attachment alongside expansion-creativity-emergence. Maybe we can only know about them by pausing-doing-reflecting-iterating-not knowing... in some right-seeming jumble that orders itself and us.

I seem, in most activist-oriented groups, to mainly be a free radical.

Retired master facilitator, group process designer, organizational consultant. Now currently focused on male-female issues, "gender politics", sexuality and relationship dynamics. (Integration of evolutionary psychology/biology and contemporary relationship issues.)

My passion is designing, facilitating and teaching about participatory processes for learning and change, whether organizatiionally-based or community driven. My anchor job is as a faculty member at Antioch University Seattle, where I teach mid-career adult learners. I also offer independent training and consultation to those interested in developing more collaborative approaches in their work, most especially the patterns in Group Works! My general approach is to nurture self-organizing, organic and emergent processes that embed greater authority with those at the grassroots level.

dancer, curator, urban gardener, construction contract & proposals professional, strategist, writer and wannabe community manager

I am volunteer at InterChange, a non-profit organization, based in Toronto with international chapters around the world. Founded by Prof. Anne Goodman, OISE - University of Toronto, InterChange aims for bridging knowledge and practice in supporting peacebuilders.

UK based permaculture teacher, particularly interested in diversity, inclusion, justice, accessibility and equality. Trustee at Permaculture Association (Britain) and lead co-ordinator at Field Families CIC.

Happily retired grandfather with two grandchildren, living in Phoenix. Partner with EnliveningEdge. Interested in PLN's, Knowledge Gardens, collaboration and cooperation, life-long learning. Trying to be a good digital citizen and keep up with the times.

Director of nonprofit RICJ; community psychologist. RICJ fights prejudice and racism by building understanding and mutual respect between all races, cultures and religions. I'm working on using pattern languages to help bring people together across differences.

www.tommurray.us

I'm a gradate student at the University of Oregon, studying conflict resolution and nonprofit management. In early 2015, I served as an intern for Group Works, and have been finding ways to integrate the deck into my work with nonprofits and youth programs.

I'm a huge fan of The Pattern Language

community psychologist, doing research on patterns and pattern languages. working on improvisational patterns languages and integrating jazz patterns and musical wisdom . I am interested in applying patterns in community building and organizations of all kind.

Group analyst, facilitator, Integral Coach. Jungian Analyst