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		<title>Making a BIG Decision &#8211; Key Approaches I’ve Used Recently</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara MacKay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the last few months, I’ve been thinking deeply about how to contribute to the world. And, as you know, every organization goes through this process as well. They set a mission and vision. If they’re smart, they review their mission and vision on a regular basis and set plans to enact both. So hear&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>When things don&#8217;t go your way&#8230;. what to do about it!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara MacKay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a blog topic feels very challenging for me to write. I don’t really know how or even what to say about the thoughts &#8220;brewing&#8221;&#8216; in my mind. Yet those thoughts have been &#8220;hanging out&#8221; long enough to know that it is time for them to be written. Blogging is one of the ways I&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Facilitator Reflections From Northern B.C.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara MacKay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s blog is a story of an epic journey I took recently. I weave the importance of creating a sense “journey” in our facilitation design throughout my storytelling. You may have read some of my blogs over the past few decades. You’ll notice that I enjoy taking my personal (especially those in nature)  experiences and&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Power of Self Reflection: Why and How</title>
		<link>https://northstarfacilitators.com/2025/07/the-power-of-self-reflection-why-and-how/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara MacKay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology of Participation (ToP)]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2017 ish, I was invited to contribute to the book called the “Power of Facilitation”. Kimberly Bain, the editor and master-mind of the book project had seen me do the PATH process for individuals and groups. And thus she asked me to write a chapter about the power of self reflection and self facilitation.&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Becoming a Social Entrepreneur After a Facilitation Career</title>
		<link>https://northstarfacilitators.com/2025/04/becoming-a-social-entrepreneur-after-a-facilitation-career/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara MacKay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Agenda Design]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last 3 months I&#8217;ve conducted, with the help of about 10 beloved and skilled facilitation colleagues, 4 Focus Groups and 2 interviews of women doing eco-work. We are calling these women eco-femmes, because they are women leading the way in planetary healing.  Our Damiana ecosystem is meant to nourish, resource and uplift women&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Six Ways to Use ToP Facilitation Methods in Training</title>
		<link>https://northstarfacilitators.com/2024/11/six-ways-to-use-top-facilitation-methods-in-training/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara MacKay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had the pleasure of participating in a training workshop for Indigenous community leaders. They were learning new ways to lead in climate change resilience. A key component of this was to navigate land transfers that would help them deal with severe coastal erosion and permafrost thaw. I was invited to facilitate a few&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can you help? Damiana is Coming to Life!</title>
		<link>https://northstarfacilitators.com/2024/09/can-you-help-project-damiana-is-launching/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara MacKay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change facilitator]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Facilitators today, more than ever need to be able to help groups envision a better world. Part of this better world obviously has to be equity changes and protecting those who are most endangered by global warming, biodiversity loss, and severe climate events. As you can tell, I am moving more and more in this&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Facilitator dilemma and opportunity: How much effort is needed?</title>
		<link>https://northstarfacilitators.com/2024/06/facilitator-dilemma-and-opportunity-how-much-effort-is-needed/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara MacKay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Facilitator Competencies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guiding Groups]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[All my life, I have watched how the level of effort varies in my life and work practices. &#8220;How much energy, time and effort do I have to devote to this task?&#8221; I would wonder. &#8220;Oh dear, this client job is taking a lot more energy that I had not planned for&#8220;; &#8220;oops, I put&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Facilitating Resilience and Conflict &#8211; Conference Highlights</title>
		<link>https://northstarfacilitators.com/2024/04/facilitating-resilience-and-conflict/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara MacKay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week we had over 150 people in San Diego, CA attending the IAF Conference of the Americas for the first time in 5 years! Every workshop I attended was provocative, insightful, and timely in terms of what the world needs now to change rapidly and strategically. There were speakers and participants from 22 different&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Using Insight Dialogue Method to Facilitate Difficult Topics (Such as the Israel-Hamas War)</title>
		<link>https://northstarfacilitators.com/2024/01/using-insight-dialogue-method-to-facilitate-difficult-topics-such-as-the-israel-hamas-war/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara MacKay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 06:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently I had the honour of facilitating using the Insight Dialogue method on the topic of the Israel-Hamas war. We were a group of peer facilitators who had worked together for many years. It was a profound experience and gratifying to see how well we did as a group. This blog is to help you&#8230;]]></description>
		
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