Alan Heckman

I do group facilitation, training, community organising and frisbee-based sports you might be surprised to learn exist.

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

@MacWBishop Ok sure but only because the the Matrix and Fight Club were right at the very end of the 90's.

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

@matthewstoller Ok it's the theatre kids, but who would win if it was a battle of vicious political manoeuvring conducted mostly in quiet hallway conversations?

Also in my school they were mostly the same kids.

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

If you love the US National Park system, I recommend this essay by @matthewstoller, about how a private company has captured the right to earn quite a lot of money by controlling access to the parks.
https://t.co/PkeVcqsbNT

[ICA:UK @ica_uk]

Loved our foundation Group Facilitation Methods ToP course? ✅ Join the next course in our ToP methods series, 'Participatory Strategic Planning', on 5th-14th December. LEARN MORE: https://t.co/OFZ6DIxLMO @alan_heckman @martingilbraith

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

This method is the basis for more than half of my own facilitation practice, and I love it. I also love training it! Online, over four days between December 5 and 14

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

One for the #facilitation peeps. I am running a training course teaching the ToP Participatory Strategic Planning method in December. If you liked the Group Facilitation Methods course, you should come! https://t.co/LadrzMbm0q

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

Does any one else remember what it was like to be the only one who knew how the electoral college worked in 1999? I thought I was so smart.

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

@Bamasgot15 @giovanelo74 How wrong do you think the polls were in 2016? Cause the national polling average was less than 1.5 pts from the final result. Some state polls were pretty far off because pollsters failed to spot that white voters with and without degrees were diverging pretty sharply.

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

One of the absolute best parts of watching live rocket launch coverage is watching the very earnest and extremely excited scientists and engineers talk about what they are doing. The less media training they have the better.

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

ME: I am immune to clickbait headlines that provoke anger by confirming my existing biases.

FACEBOOK POST: Donald Trump Jr misuses apostrophe in the title of his new book.

ME: ...ok maybe not.

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

Real, genuine, high-engagement, high-participation online events are possible! I am so excited to be working with @REN21 Renewables in Cities Advisory Committee today. This is not a webinar!

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

As an extra... Here's a great short blog post from Ann with some tips to make your tricky conversations immediately better. https://t.co/dymvAjs4uf

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

My friend and trusted colleague Ann Lukens is bringing one of her best training courses online! Transforming Difficult Conversations will run July 13 -16 in two hour blocks. https://t.co/4q1I6GA7Rh

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

What can we do to make our online meetings as engaging as possible?

2 more free online workshops on this question this week, to test ideas for running consensus workshops online.

2:45 pm UK time on Weds: https://t.co/Fw2E08q4NP

5:30 pm UK time on Fri:
https://t.co/V0RodvlF8J

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

Sick of bad meetings? I have made a late decision to run a free 2-hour participatory workshop on this question: What are the key elements of a great online meeting? It's on Wednesday at 4 pm UK time. Sign up here! https://t.co/9XqTyzoyZa

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

@LetsGoMiro @ddoomen He is talking about @MiroHQ

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

@sfrostenson Is there social science evidence that people turn rightward when they feel stressed or unsafe? The politics team seems to feel sure that covid19 is pretty bad for Trump's re-election chances, but could the voters instead rally around the strong authoritarian leader?

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

I LOVED being on Radio 2 @OJBorg's Midnight Mastermind with the specialist subject of Disc Golf last night.

He challenged me to a game sometime soon... who do you think will win?

Skip to 35 minutes if you just want to listen to my bit 🙂

https://t.co/z42u17XazT

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

Today is the first time I have ever tried to help train a Group Facilitation Methods course in Polish. I don't speak or read Polish at all, but it seems to be going amazingly well... at least as far as I can tell!

[Alan Heckman @alan_heckman]

New research has shown that some parrots can understand probability when making up their minds. Which probably explains why we see very little criticism of @NateSilver538 from the parrot community on Twitter.

https://t.co/zxkLNEiHgf