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What Do You Do When Consensus Fails?

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Nov 20, 2009, 3:18 am
This is the nightmare scenario for any consensus process: After months of hard work by 20 or 30 participants, one or two holdouts, perhaps representing narrow or personal interests, block agreement an...
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Is There Comfort in Depression?

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Nov 16, 2009, 12:12 pm
Some Rights Reserved by Andy Saxton at Flickr The question continues to puzzle me: How did I get over depression? That deep change began about 18 months ago, and it’s been a year since I knew f...
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Real-Time Online Video Meetings

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Nov 14, 2009, 12:53 am
Despite my share of disappointments with the latest “revolutionary” computer technology, I’ve become quite optimistic about online video meetings. In contrast to promotions about the...
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Public Outreach and Consensus Building Training Video

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Nov 7, 2009, 3:10 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. This is a federal Department of Energy training film designed for DOE project managers. Because its purpose is real-world training, it avoids sugarcoating most ...
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Are You Still You When Your Partner Is Depressed?

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Nov 6, 2009, 4:49 pm
Some Rights Reserved by pargee at Flickr Over and over, I find online stories about the transformation of a loving partner, most often a man, into a depressed stranger. As I’ve often written he...
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The Need for Collaborative Capacity

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Nov 3, 2009, 5:39 pm
Increasingly, leaders and managers are looking to collaborative methods for dealing with contentious policy issues. When making a first attempt, they may well recognize that success takes a lot more t...
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Susan Collin Marks of Search for Common Ground: Media & Peace

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Oct 29, 2009, 11:53 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. Susan Collin Marks is the Senior Vice President of Search for Common Ground (SFCG). In this interview with the European Journalism Centre, she describes some of...
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Looking Out for Life

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Oct 28, 2009, 1:23 pm
Some Rights Reserved by macropoulos at Flickr When I was growing up, no one ever talked about depression. I didn’t know what it was, and the moods I went through didn’t get much reaction ...
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How Do Consensus Groups Make Choices?

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Oct 25, 2009, 4:50 pm
As in any other field, public sector consensus building always gets to the critical moment when choices have to be made. In my experience, how a group accomplishes this reveals more about motives behi...
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Brief Dreams of Recovery – 2

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Oct 22, 2009, 11:11 pm
Some Rights Reserved by dean_forbes at Flickr In this dream, I heard myself saying: I am waking up out of the earth. I wasn’t at all sure what that meant. Was it supposed to be some mythic aris...
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Implementing Agreements: The Ordeal of Change

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Oct 20, 2009, 2:18 pm
The real test of a collaborative agreement only begins when the changes it requires hit the streets. That’s when it gets personal. Carrying out an agreement usually means that particular people ...
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Brief Dreams of Recovery – 1

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Oct 16, 2009, 11:26 pm
Some Rights Reserved by Jeff Bauche at Flickr Dreams are what they are, and I won’t try to explain them in rational or symbolic terms. The feeling of this one was all good. It came as recovery was ...
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Collaborative Implementation of Consensus Agreements

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Oct 14, 2009, 2:10 am
Collaborative agreements often come together after seemingly endless sessions of hard negotiation. When reached, they may well represent a breakthrough achievement, finally getting long-time adversari...
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Web Resources for Online Meetings – 1

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Oct 10, 2009, 2:15 am
Amid the excitement surrounding the Obama Administration’s use of the internet for massive public engagement, I’ve been looking for web-based applications that can be used on a much smalle...
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Doubt is Depression's Last Stand

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Oct 7, 2009, 5:39 pm
Some Rights Reserved by drp at Flickr It’s been one thing to get depression out of my life. It’s been another to get it out of my memory. Still holding on, it keeps playing tricks with the past. ...
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Online Voting for Public Policy vs. Consensus Building: Is That a Choice?

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Oct 6, 2009, 12:10 pm
Although I haven’t seen a lot of discussion about this so far, the emergence of interactive tools for online citizen engagement poses interesting questions for the future of public policy consen...
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Talking Honestly about Depression

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Sep 29, 2009, 10:29 pm
Some Rights Reserved by exper at Flickr I’ve always had trouble talking honestly about depression, in therapy or out. Even though much of its influence is gone, this remnant of depression is still ...
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Resistance to Change:

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Sep 27, 2009, 2:40 pm
I’ve been following some excellent posts about resistance to change initiatives, such as those at Holger Naumeier’s Change Management Blog and Jack Vinson’s Knowledge Jolt with Jack....
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Making Decisions When Depressed

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Sep 23, 2009, 10:56 pm
Some Rights Reserved by AMagill at Flickr Like so many, I experience depression in various forms, yet each in its own way knocks out the decision control center in my mind. At times, I scramble in an...
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Whole System Change: The Future Search Conference

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Sep 20, 2009, 3:42 pm
The Future Search Conference is one of several collaborative planning methods that take a “whole system” approach. These processes try to replace shelf-bound plans with agendas for action ...
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Changing the Mind's Experience of Pain: The Witness of Reynolds Price

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Sep 17, 2009, 5:00 pm
Some Rights Reserved by janusz l at Flickr When I think of recovery from a terrible illness, I think of Reynolds Price. His beautiful memoir, A Whole New Life, records the powerful experience of his ...
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The City of Santa Cruz Goes Online for Public Ideas

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Sep 14, 2009, 11:45 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. Video courtesy of Web 2.0 ExpoSF-’09 and O’Reilly Media. Peter Koht of the City of Santa Cruz, CA, describes the city’s online method for gat...
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John Forester: Dealing with Differences

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Sep 14, 2009, 2:38 am
Many who spend their time trying to find agreement among adversaries have long been familiar with the work of John Forester. A professor of planning at Cornell, he’s always followed his own path...
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Taking It Upstream: Upcoming (Un)Conference

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Sep 12, 2009, 1:39 pm
Taking It Upstream, A Green Leadership (Un)Conference, is coming up soon on September 25 at Pepperdine University’s Malibu Campus. Devoted to climate change issues, the one-day event will challe...
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When Depressed, Do You Feel Ugly?

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Sep 10, 2009, 6:10 pm
Some Rights Reserved by wallyg at Flickr I’ve published another post at Health Central. The opening is below with a link to the full post. Quite a while back, there was a TV series about a group o...
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Defining Problems to Build Consensus

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Sep 8, 2009, 4:59 pm
Leaders and managers who convene consensus building groups are often frustrated by the difficulty of one of the first steps: defining the problem the group is trying to resolve. Despite a stated desi...
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Re-Reading the Story of Depression's Meaning

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Sep 6, 2009, 11:07 pm
There are no more beautiful and moving stories of healing than those told by Rachel Naomi Remen. Kitchen Table Wisdom is one of those books I come...
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A Wheel of Emotions

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Sep 4, 2009, 7:33 pm
Some Rights Reserved by http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ivan_Akira at Wikimedia Commons Here’s something that caught my eye – a highly original classification of the emotions. This...
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Bernard Mayer: Staying with Conflict

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Sep 2, 2009, 5:04 pm
Some Rights Reserved by Nicholas_T In his latest book, Bernard Mayer has challenged our thinking about mediation by singling out a dimension of conflict that receives too little attention. Simply put...
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Reuniting America 2006: An Example of Leadership Dialogue

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Aug 31, 2009, 12:50 am
Click here to view the embedded video. Reuniting America convened a series of leadership workshops on major issues from 2004 – 2007. These sessions drew together 140 leaders representing the fu...
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Recovery from Depression's Words

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Storied Mind - Aug 28, 2009, 6:00 pm
Some Rights Reserved by Boskizzi at Flickr The words went up like walls, and I stepped inside to stay. I paced around in that confinement and after a while got to know the enclosure well. I liked its...
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The Wisdom of Crowds, Collaborative Networks & Public Policy

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Aug 24, 2009, 11:38 am
Over the last few years, concepts like collaboration, the wisdom of crowds and collaborative networks have taken hold as innovative ways for involving large groups of people to help solve complicated ...
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Dialogue for a World Without Killing

John Folk-Williams posted an article on Cross Collaborate - Aug 21, 2009, 7:32 pm
Thanks to Victoria Pynchon at Settle It Now-Negotiation Blog for her recent post on the Khmer Rouge Genocide Trials in Cambodia. She reprints an extraordinary letter from David Blackman, a California ...
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I write two blogs - one on my recovery from depression (www.storiedmind.com) - the other about collaboration and public policy (www.crosscollaborate.com). I've retired from professional collaborative work and am now switching careers to writing and online information products.

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