My name is Ewen Le Borgne.
My work exists to help and gently challenge everyone to unlock their collaborative, facilitative and relational magic for better human systems and our planet.
I do this through direct facilitation and coaching/training/co-design and co-facilitation of ambitious people and collectives.
You can find what kind of work I formally offer on my website: http://processchange.net
This blog is strongly linked to my other blog on (agile) knowledge management (KM) and learning for social change. But this blog focuses on facilitation. Of events, of processes, and ‘healthy human systems‘. It is dedicated to everything that has to do with (agile) facilitation and my practice around it, in the service of social change.
What is facilitation?
Sam Kaner and the ‘Community At Work‘ crew would describe the job of a facilitator as “Helping others do their best thinking”. And perhaps it is really the essence of it.
This video from the International Institute for Facilitation and Change describes that role as “architect, pilot and guide”.
To me, facilitation is the art of preparing and hosting conversations that unlock everyone’s intelligence and whole-person to achieve things that matter to them collectively – whether the facilitation is done by one person (internal or external) or carried by the whole group.
Why ‘Agile’?
Facilitation has to stretch its limits all the time, and remain relevant in an ultra-dynamic world where change is the norm. One-size-fits-all, proven recipes and silver bullets don’t work with human systems, because they are complex by nature.
The focus on ‘agile’ reminds me that there no such thing as a static, fixed human system. Agile is the way that we (have to) walk.
I don’t mean ‘Agile’, the software development collaboration method, but agile as in ‘ever-adaptive’, liquid, fluid, approach to change and learning with quick feedback loops.
Why this blog?
While blogging on Agile KM for me and you, I noticed over time that quite a lot of my posts related to my practice of facilitating cooperation, collaboration, and decision-making. There is a natural connection between knowledge management and facilitation, but it dawned on me that the domain of facilitated collaborative processes and healthy human systems deserved a space of its own, away from other conversations that KM tends to bring to the foreground.
All posts related to facilitation that I originally blogged about on ‘Agile KM’ are republished on this blog too.
I hope you find something that resonates with you here, and that if so inclined you share your comments and reflections on this space.
Who am I?
And if you’re still wondering who I am, check out my profile page on Process Change for me and you… or indeed my LinkedIn profile.
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