FS69 Social Presencing Theater with Rosie Cripps

FS69 Social Presencing Theater with Rosie Cripps

In this episode Nikki talks to Rosie Cripps, a facilitator and evaluator who helps build social movements and evaluate complex systems, about Social Presencing Theater.

They talk about:

• What Social Presencing Theater is, its origins and some of the tools and techniques that sit under it;

• The role of the facilitator in creating psychological safety and responding in the moment without knowing the details of the issue being explored;

• How Rosie first experienced Social Presencing Theater and what interested her about it;

“with social presencing theater, you can get to the crux of the matter so quickly, and so, kind of precisely, and so clearly see what needs to change without barely exchanging any words at all.”

• A workshop that Rosie ran with Ann Nkune at the IAF England and Wales conference using the tool “Stuck”;

“Some people said it made them not just think differently, but feel differently”.

• How this experience led Rosie to attending a recent Social Presencing Theater course and the learning from that experience;

• Rosie’s thoughts on how to take this forward, including a call out for collaborators;

A full transcript is below.

Links

Today’s guest:

Rosie Cripps on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosie-cripps/

Today’s subject

Presencing Institute: https://presencinginstitute.org/

U School: https://www.u-school.org/

Arawana Hayashi Social Presencing Theater website: https://arawanahayashi.com/spt/

Social Presencing Theater The Art of Making a True Move (book), Arawana Hayashi

To find out more about Facilitation Stories and the IAF and the England and Wales Chapter

Facilitation Stories website: https://facilitationstories.libsyn.com/

And to email us: podcast@iaf-englandwales.org

IAF England and Wales: https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/england-wales

The Facilitation Stories Team

Helene Jewell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenejewell/

Nikki Wilson:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolawilson2/

Transcript

N.W

Hello, and welcome to facilitation stories, the community podcast of the England and Wales chapter of the International Association of Facilitators, also known as IAF. My name is Nikki Wilson (N.W), and my guest today is Rosie Cripps (R.C). So welcome Rosie.

R.C

Hi, thank you for having me.

N.W

So to start off with, could you tell us a little bit more about you and what you do?

R.C

Yeah. So I'm a facilitator and an evaluator. I help build inclusive community-led movements and as part of this, so I've helped teach architecture students, Appreciative Inquiry, and I've been exploring the idea of universities as anchor organisations to help communities become resilient and self-sustaining. And I evaluate kind of complex, messy systems. And I usually do that using outcome harvesting, which uses lots of facilitation. So in summary, I kind of help build social movements and evaluate complex systems.

N.W

Great. And so today, we're going to be talking about Social Presencing Theater. So for listeners who don't know what it is, Please, could you tell us a little bit more about it, and