nickwilding.com

practice workshops

... the tools and methods I use, and how I share them.

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Courses

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Connections

About:
- Action Research
- Human Ecology
- Integral Practice

'1st person' work (personal development)
Auto-ethnography
Freefall Writing / Morning Pages
Presence / Awareness practices (meditations and yoga)
Edge-work (including positive psychology)
'Slow Down, Go Futher'
Finding Voice

'2nd person' work (groupwork)
Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Story Dialogue
World Cafe
Circle
Appreciative Inquiry
Learning Journey Design
Experiential Deep Ecology / Ecopsychology
Music (singing, drumming, playing) improvisation

'3rd person' work (engaging the greater whole)
Conscious Leadership
Chaordic Design
Open Space Technology
Future Search Conference
Amoeba Systems Change model
Spiral Dynamics Integral
Integral Ecology and Sustainability

Contact me here to start a conversation about hosting a bespoke training in one or more of these approaches. In most cases, I will work with a team of 1-3 facilitators and the group size will be between 8 and 20.

Past/continuing
offerings:

Finding Voice
& Action Research
(5 day MSc accredited short courses introducing many methods for
CPD professionals and Masters students)

Conscious Leadership
(5 day intensive with elements of many
of these methods;
public and private sector individual participants)

Training for Transformation
(12 day intensive/
local popular education programme for local community activists; taster of many tools)

Story Dialogue
(1 day introduction offered in-house for publicSCDC, Inverness Council, Glasgow Literacies workers,
MSc students, etc.)

Slow Down, Go Further
(2 hour-1 day
workshop offered for change-makers)

Forthcoming:

The Art of Hosting
(5 day introduction to Chaordic process, Open Space, Circle, and
World Cafe for facilitators)

Integral Sustainability
(5 day introduction to Integral Theory and leadership for systemic change for
change-makers)

Slow D

Find my CV here... in short:

My professional practice is grounded in over ten years' experience in popular education, groupwork faciliation and action learning/research consultancy.

I am a Teaching Fellow with the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a doctoral student with the University of Bath Management School's Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice.