Emergence. Gently facilitating physical and mental space (Timelab Gent, 6 dec)

This workshop will be in English, but we can organise bilingual Dutch-English. Let us know if you prefer that.

To feel the good vibes. To feel welcome and at home. You know how that feels. It's like a warm blanket of care when you enter a space, a community, a country. A feeling of belonging is a basic need for all beings. What does it mean to be part of a collaborative space, a cultural or social space, and how can we untangle that feeling of belonging?

Over the last 3 years, we at Timelab have been building a flexible space. Busy with steel, concrete and bricks, but at the same time busy with how we relate to it as beings. And how we relate to each other, the urban fabric and to nature. 

The impossibility of being close during pandemic times strongly enhanced our belief in the importance of relationships and the need for safe spaces, or better, brave spaces. So, over the last year, we went inward and focused on teamwork, personal development, and coaching. We dived deep into learning dynamics and discovered the importance of de-learning. The goal was to be ready, together with the opening of the building, to share our knowledge. But the further we went, the better we knew: there is a lot more to learn. Along our journey, we met the most inspiring people. Amongst them the people behind Beyond Borders. So we collaborated and created an open workshop series to share with you.

We are proud and excited to invite you to our first series of 3 workshops on facilitating a texture of belonging. On becoming an invisible facilitator, on routines and the art of kindness. These workshop series is part of the Brave Space project that is part of our topic of Redefining Cultural Space. 

Fee

You can subscribe to one or go for the complete triple workshop. We ask you to pick the contribution fee that fits you best. Standard fee covers our costs. As a non-profit organisation, we use the support contribution to keep our program and building open and flexible.

*Hana is Japanese for cherry blossom and fubuki means snow storm. We associate the cherry blossom with beauty and peace and heaven and bliss, while we associate the snowstorm with cold and discontent and resistance. Literally it is a snowstorm of cherry blossoms. Hanafubuki means using the force of the snowstorm to create an environment of beauty and bliss. A metaphor for a blossoming and powerful community.

Emergence. Gently facilitating physical and mental space

“Facilitation is not about showing my presence or displaying my technique. Rather, it is about revealing, through facilitation, ‘something else,' something that the audience doesn’t encounter in daily life. The facilitator doesn’t demonstrate it. It is not physically visible, but, through the engagement of the onlooker’s imagination, ‘something else’ will appear in his or her mind. For this to happen, the participants must not have the slightest awareness of what the facilitator is doing. They must be able to forget the facilitator. The facilitator must disappear.” (Francis Laleman, based on Yoshi Oida's ideas on the 'invisible actor') 

What you will learn is : gentle and cooperative facilitation of meetings, workshops, events, processes. We will do this in an interactive, playful yet profound and human-oriented way. Both systemic facilitation in-situ and non-technology driven facilitation online.

More info: Timelab.org