How to solve simple, complicated and complex problems
Sustainability, Cynefin framework, facilitation methods.
I have the joy of, finally, sharing with you, a detailed report about the facilitation techniques applied in the first of the OsservAgro Workshops, in 2018.
At that time, I was only a participant, invited by my friend, Marco Valente, and on that occasion, I’ve met for the first time Andrea Sonnino, the coordinator of Observatory on the Dialogue in the Agri-food System (OsservAgro), and Paola Carrabba. They would join me, then, as the workshop designers for the subsequent events.
This is my most complex article so far. While I wrote down the first draft in 4 hours, non-stop, I went through numerous revisions and fine-tuning. It can be improved. A lot, of course. But I need to be patient and tolerant to myself since this is the most ambitious post since I’ve started and I don’t want to miss the commitment of my publishing schedule. It has been substantially improved thanks to the caring revision work of Antonella Pastore.
Without the intent of being not respectful to you, I must consider this a first refined draft which will surely be revised in the future.
My hope is to build up enough published material to create something more structured out of it.
It is a long read, unfortunately. As some popular people say in the past: “Sorry for the long writing, I did not have the time to be brief.” But I am very proud of these reflections, finally put on digital paper, after many months of thinking, annotating and discussing. I’ve learned, the hard way, that it is much better to write on more focused topics, and more briefly to avoid using so many resources for one-shot articles.
In this article, you can discover the foundations laid out by Marco and then received by me, Andrea and Paola in what would have been the next 5 workshops.
I would love to know if find it interesting and useful. I would also appreciate any suggestion to write better and in a more pleasurable way. Contact me, if you want to talk about it. This is really a passion for me. I hope to do more and more of this in the future.
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