Here you will find past articles of The Spokesperson e-Newsletter, and other writings by our founder, Michelle Cummings. We love sharing Facilitation Tips & Tricks to help make you the best facilitator you can be. Enjoy!
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Summer and Celebrations! Bicycle and Flower Basket The words ‘easy’ and ‘summer’ are a perfect match. In fact, pull out a thesaurus and look up the word ‘easy’ and you’ll
The Importance and Significance of Names One of my favorite ice breaker questions to ask is, “What is the significance of your name?” Usually this is the third or fourth
Knot Exchange For our Tip this week I’m including the instructions for a great problem-solving activity created by Sam Sikes and written up in his book, Raptor. (One of my
Body Part Debrief This activity is my absolute favorite! I use it with literally 99% of the groups I facilitate. I have used it with participants as young as three
Advice From a Pencil Pencil spoke I’ve shared this tip in the past, it’s one I love. I’m not sure of the original author of this story. I found it
Leadership and Fly Fishing I am a fly fisher–and I love it. It’s one of the only things I do that allows me to focus on one thing at a
How Empowerment Encourages Leadership ACM Crew Sheri, Tanya, Michelle & Amy For the past four or five years I have been involved with the Academy of Country Music (ACM) and
It’s dumping snow in Colorado today. I mean DUMPING snow–and yesterday it was 70 degrees and I was wearing flip flops! Springtime weather in Colorado is always a little unpredictable,
The Many Hats We Wear If you think about the many hats we wear on a daily basis, the list is quite long. Just to name a few hats I
