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Understanding and Managing Polarities in Facilitation
Much of facilitation is about holding and navigating tension: between structure and flexibility, speed and depth, individual thinking and group dialogue. Facilitators constantly make judgment calls about how to balance competing, yet equally important, forces in real time. These tensions are not signs that something is going wrong—they are examples of polarities. What Are Polarities?…
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Three Case Studies in Facilitating Through Uncertainty
Last fall, our team at KnowInnovation wrapped up three very different projects, each with its own goals, communities, and scientific domains. What they shared, unexpectedly, was context: all three took place during a federal government shutdown. For organizations and collaborations that include government agencies, a shutdown introduces immediate and very real uncertainty. Participation becomes unclear.…
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Inside the UVA BDSIL Seminar Series
The series exists as a library of knowledge to help foster communication and collaboration between professionals in the Biomedical and Data Science fields working on complex interdisciplinary problems.
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Earlier Detection of Cancer
How CRUK’s Sandpit Workshops are accelerating breakthrough research in early cancer detection In the United Kingdom, only 25 percent of cancers are detected at stage 1. Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has been holding Sandpit Workshops since 2018 focusing on the early detection of cancer. Sandpits, which are known as Ideas Labs in the U.S., are…
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Female Factor
Science is a subject available to both genders and yet women, if not directly discouraged, haven’t been as encouraged to pursue it as a field of study. Girls are steered toward languages and the liberal arts, implying that maths and sciences are better left to the boys. It’s a stereotype that’s been torn down and…