Rachel Lynch

Facilitation

When it comes to facilitation, it’s not just about pulling the rabbit out of the hat. Interesting material needs to be dove-tailed with creating a collaborative space for ideas and conversation to flow. As Dale Hunter once said, “at our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction but an energetic charge. Human beings and all things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing”. That’s where the real magic...

Education

A university professor asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don’t know and I don’t care. For many years I facilitated ICT and literacy workshops for 18-25 year olds from socio-economic disadvantaged areas on the Northside of Dublin. Their previous experience of learning had not been a positive one so it was important for topics to be student led and...

Design

I have been fortunate to work in both commercial and community design. After working on a literacy design brief I was fascinated by the concept of life-long learning and decided to retrain in Adult Education. My role as an adult educator then led onto training as a psychotherapist. Each discipline complements the other through facilitating empathetic story-telling. This has given me the opportunity to bring innovative design approaches to...

"Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Edward de Bono "

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Facilitation

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