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The importance of facilitation

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Michel Bauwens
23rd December 2008


In order to truly achieve a peer to peer society, to have the maturity to engage with such dynamics, we need to evolve both as individuals but even more crucially in our intersubjective relations and skills. This is the aim of a global movement of facilitators, which we cover here.

It’s also the topic of a short article by Helen Titchen Beeth for Kosmos Journal, which you can find here.

Helen stresses that social entrepreneurs need to understand the properties of living systems:

This article gives a brief overview of what needs to happen if we— individually and collectively—are to wisely and effectively engage in shaping the future of our planet and our species. The community of evolutionary entrepreneurs has a rich toolkit of models, maps and approaches to work with, but they can be effective only if we deeply understand the habits of the living systems in which we use them. The guidelines set out below come from the distilled wisdom of the global community of ‘hosts of conversations that matter,’ as I understand them through the filters of my own experience as an evolutionary entrepreneur working inside the European Commission in Brussels. “

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