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Failsilient. – Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator. Posted by Paul Batfay CPF. November 24, 2014. Some things endure in life. At school I ran every day to and from, even with a cello in hand…. 8230;this morning I ran to the train station, as usual. I am forgetful about little things, always have been…. 8230;this morning I trudged back home from the train station, collected my forgotten swipe card, and ran back. Some things endure in life…. 8230;some things change. Then I noticed something. Some things change in life.
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No. – Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator. Posted by Paul Batfay CPF. June 18, 2015. Taking on responsibility knowing it will wear you down; freedom is a possibility only if you are able to say no. 1517, Rules (Album), Whitest Boy Alive, 2009. That song came up on shuffle this morning. I have a cracking headache. I woke up with it. I find it hard to say no. Flaws are not there because logic said they had to be. They just are. I stayed. Because I said yes to things. Holidays are in 6 weeks. Until then, no mo...
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Beyou. – Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator. Posted by Paul Batfay CPF. April 19, 2015. April 19, 2015. Rainbow socks and the Big Issue. Yes, that is me standing in rainbow socks and thongs! So every Friday lunchtime, I catch the tram back from the Big Issue and go straight into corporate life again, always with a different perspective and having learnt something. Last Friday when I did that, two requests were in my email. My answer: Yes, I’ll post my sock picture on Yammer. Carol Dweck’s ‘Growth Mindset. So is m...
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Mutiny. – Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator. Posted by Paul Batfay CPF. February 1, 2015. 8220;Children’s drawings are invariably interesting because of (their) innocence and because they do not attempt to impress. Being untutored, they are unadulterated, and therefore are a direct and unfiltered transmission of a thought.” – Alan Fletcher. I said plaintively, searching. How about you just try to group them first? Replied the grad, calmly. So we did group them, and 3 ways emerged:. Then we matched the skills and ...
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Paul Batfay CPF – Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator. Author: Paul Batfay CPF. 8220;A grapefruit is a lemon that had a chance and took advantage of it.” – Oscar Wilde Wind was blowing the hot-air balloons southwards. I couldn’t tell if they were in front or behind the city skyline, but as I ran towards the view, I tried to disassociate my cadence with their imperturbable glide…. If you asked a business leader what they look for in a facilitator, what would they say to you? Be grateful when the comfort comes To make a diff...
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Hello. – Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator. Posted by Paul Batfay CPF. July 12, 2015. July 12, 2015. This post is the first in a series on social learning, and focuses on the pure experience. Not fleeing, nor invading, just running late. So this is what it looks like. Up that way. After going up that way, several friendly, familiar faces from a few similar functions last year greeted me. Hello Paul, here is your lapel tag. Have a seat wherever you are comfy. It’s OK, I’m not my job after 6pm. It is beyond cool t...
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator – Page 2 – Facilitation | Learning | Community
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator. About youth, amazing skill, high value, future pathways and a very collaborative conference coming up. Friday. The end of a week where the emotion had drained out of me by about Monday afternoon. I’d blogged about mental health (and my own battles) on Sunday night, and had walked into work ashen-faced Monday morning. By…. 65 out of 10. Such was my answer to the question ‘how do you think it went? This post is the first in a series on social learning, and focuses on the...
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Story. – Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator. Posted by Paul Batfay CPF. June 16, 2015. June 16, 2015. Never start a dance without the story in mind first. – Rudolph Nureyev. Storytelling as a communication plan. Why our fear of storytelling? Story in a business setting. So why the dread? And what can you do about it? Stories push us to get more personal, to share more of ourselves. Could you tell someone else’s story, for instance, and leverage off their vulnerability? You can, but your eyes won’t light up as muc...
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Sandpit. – Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator. Posted by Paul Batfay CPF. June 10, 2013. A technique is a trick that worked. – Gian-carlo Rota. Like many gen x-ers, it took a lot of convincing to get me into social media. Where was the benefit? The Sandpit is a thing of real beauty. Some of the things it achieves are:. A) A repository for in-the-moment facilitation experimentation. B) An ability to get instant feedback. C) An archive of the evolution of the workshop. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are commenting u...
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Curate. – Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator
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Paul Batfay is the FreeFacilitator. Posted by Paul Batfay CPF. December 3, 2013. You never own a workshop, you are the transient custodian of it. This freedom to wander that you discover as a facilitator was sufficiently alluring for me to name this blog after, but the selfish nature of it caused me unease. So I have been driven to share. In my post ‘Sandpit’, one way I have attempted do so is canvassed. There are better ways though, such as sitting in a room with others who run what you do. July 31, 2016.
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