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NDB 2021 - Clown Up Your Facilitation with Stephan Kinsch | Summary

28 May 2021 · 3 min

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In the closing segment of the "Clown Up Your Facilitation" workshop, facilitator Stephan Kinsch and participants reflect on the key insights from the 90‑minute session. The group highlights several core principles: viewing problems as opportunities for connection and reframing; treating facilitation as a stage where each person consciously adopts a role and cares for that role; prioritizing genuine relationships over merely pleasing the audience; embracing vulnerability and failure, even dark or uncomfortable moments, as a means to deepen bonds; using subtle mirroring techniques to foster connection; and choosing to play with problems rather than eliminate them, recognizing the problem’s dynamic role. The discussion underscores that clowning can be a powerful, non‑traditional tool for building authentic connections in facilitation.

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And one way to check out, I would like to invite you to share if someone missed this workshop and doesn't have time to watch the entire recording again, what would you like them to take away from these 90 minutes? Someone can start and share and then pass it on to someone else.
It's nice to have a problem. Carmen. I pass it to Carmen.
Oh yeah, I was actually thinking about the problem exercise as well because it was a really good reminder of how problems give us opportunities to connect and reframe. And I also really liked being reminded to take your role and that it is, it is a bit of a stage that you're on and you're agreeing to to each take a role and you're helping each other by taking that role and taking care of yourself in your role. Dov?
For me, it's just fun to be a guest of a clown, so thank you for that. Ruth?
I think what stood out for me, it's about relationship and not about pleasing the audience.
Yes, and my favorite part was that, uh, the reminder of that we don't have to have answers at all times ready, but just say yes and first and something will come up. Manal?
So much, but clowning can be used as a way to form connections and it doesn't always have to be like in a laughing manner. Like, it can include dark elements like exposing vulnerabilities and exposing and embracing failures as a form of building those connections. Yeah, I think everyone went. Myriam?
Yeah, thank you. I— what I'm taking away is also the Mirroring and how to build connection with very small elements that might remain subtle, and playing with the problem. Don't try to get rid of the problem, but play with it, because the problem has a very important role in the dynamics and in general. So thank you.
Thank you all. Thank you for participating, especially Manal. Thanks for sharing your situation. From a clown perspective, that would probably be my next show, would deal with, with this situation, which mother of laws not agreeing with me.