🎧 Podcast Club Gathering

Who Holds the Pen?

Join us to explore what facilitator neutrality really means and whether the tools we use to reduce bias might be introducing it in a different form.

This month's focus: Judy Rees works with clean language — choosing words so carefully that the facilitator's own meaning stays out of the room. Ole Qvist-Sørensen works with visuals — putting the group's thinking on a wall so everyone can see it, question it, and agree on what it actually means. Both reduce the facilitator's influence on the group. 

The Podcast Club is a gathering grounded in shared listening.
Before we meet, please listen to:

1. Episode 112: Demystifying Visual Collaboration with Ole Qvist-Sørensen
2. Episode 221: Unmasking the Hidden Influence: The Clean Language Approach with Judy Rees

To find the episodes on your podcast player, please search for the "Unprofessionalism" podcast, as it is no longer called "Workshops Work."

Food for Thought
To stimulate our conversation, I invite you to listen with these questions in mind:

• If bias is always present, is the goal to reduce it or to make it visible? 
• Who holds the pen in your practice — and who should?
• Judy works by removing the facilitator's language. Ole works by adding a shared visual language. Which direction feels more intuitive to you, and why?

Format

• 60-minute live conversation
• Lightly facilitated with small and large group conversations
• Not recorded
• No presentations or slides

Who this is for? 
Facilitators curious about exploring different approaches, values, and beliefs in our practice. We listen before we speak, build on shared ideas, and leave with better questions rather than clear answers.
Free to join!