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Category: Overcoming resistance

A series of posts based on ‘Story secrets for speakers’ but aimed at the specific goal of using story strategy for breaking down resistence to change or transformation.

December 10, 2015December 10, 2015Events, Overcoming resistance

No more model citizens! What I learned at the ATKV this week.

ATKV Jeugleiersimposium Dit was my voorreg om hierdie week, Maandag en Dinsdag, as spreker op te tree by die ATKV se Jeugleiersimposiums […]

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February 4, 2015Events, Overcoming resistance

EVENT: Pig Catching Session 1 for 2015

A pig with wings

Dear Pig catchers old and new, We kick of our pig catching sessions this year with a session on Threshold Guardians. We […]

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July 5, 2014July 5, 2014Overcoming resistance

Cosmic resistance – When the world is against me

You have lead your audience past four types of resistance: 1. their doubts and reservations about their own suitability (Personal resistance), whether […]

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May 24, 2014May 24, 2014Overcoming resistance

Easing past social resistance when facilitating

Do I fit in? Every coaching client or participant wants to know:  am I alone in this? Many times somewhere in a […]

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May 6, 2014May 6, 2014Overcoming resistance

Overcoming Practical resistance: What’s the plan?

The tool, the plan, the rules Every facilitator or speaker faces resistance. If you have done a good job of Painting a […]

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April 4, 2014April 4, 2014Overcoming resistance

Breaking through Personal Resistance

Call on the hero’s Character Once the audience catches on to a new idea, a new way of viewing a problem reframed […]

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March 1, 2014May 6, 2014Overcoming resistance

Five types of resistance and how to break through

Introduction:  Paint a picture of the possibility What made James in ‘James and the Giant Peach’ climb inside a giant peach, befriend […]

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February 20, 2014May 6, 2014Overcoming resistance

Why a ‘just fine’ facilitation is not good enough – and how to get it unstuck

Stories teach us about five types of resistance that a storyteller must take the main character through in order for him or […]

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