The art of managing a meeting

Master practical techniques to facilitate inclusive, productive, and impactful discussions across diverse stakeholders.

For this last Bridging Minds webinar, we explore more in depth different dimensions which support how to read groups on meetings and other encounters. Connecting different elements of the previous webinars in a holistic view by linking groups dynamics, different participation implementation forms and the (un)conscious use of suppression techniques.

In this session, we’ll explore:

• **The ‘Simplicity of Complex Things’ versus the ‘Complexity of Simple Things’ **: a (re)discovery of easy actions and behaviours, in the frame of participatory processes. The modesty of ‘Master’.
• Groups Stages: the importance of understanding and reading the stage of groups and teams in perspective of taking common decisions.
• Participative Concepts: how different models influence the level of decision making, links to groups stages and the use of power.
• Suppression techniques: how to recognise them and how to counter them. Inflicted by yourself, or by others. A surprising discovery of yourself and others.

Why does this matter for biodiversity conservation? The SPSI (Science-Policy-Society Interface) is interwoven with many different interests. Placing these interests during meetings in the perspective of group dynamics, power relationships and meeting techniques aim to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of SPSI encounters.

Based on practice: using case examples of working with diverse groups in multiple international contexts.

Register now to explore and (re)discover about you and others on meetings and groups. Conscious and/or unconscious.