Facilitative Leadership Training: Day 2

I'm learning about Facilitative Leadership, a program put together by the good people at Interaction Institute for Social Change (@IISCblog).

The top 3 things I learned today:

1. The Iceberg! How to go from micro to macro with a problem you're solving:

The iceberg exercise asks the participants to keep an eye out for "levers" in any of the different depths that can be pulled to make a change.


2. Consensus!  And what happens when you can't get it.  Turns out I found myself as one of the people creating an obstacle to consensus with an issue I felt strongly about but not many others did.  I felt a lot of involvement, a lot of ownership (see the graphic below)

3. This wonderful quotation from the Facilitative Leadership text made a big splash in our group: