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Adrian Segar

@segar.com

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I design & facilitate conferences that ➠ what folks want/need 🔸 Author of 3 meeting design books 🔸 ❤️ 2 🎤🕺🏻🧘‍♂️ 🔸 Recovering academic 🔸 @[email protected] 🔸 Marlboro, VT, USA; Work globally 🔸 Everything about me: conferencesthatwork.com

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · Dec 2

🔸 15 years of 850+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange, being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories at conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic

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Welcome : Conferences That Work

Conferences That Work: providing design and facilitation of your in-person and online participant-driven, participation-rich meetings.

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 8h

Are you a specialist or a generalist? Here are some advantages I've experienced of being a generalist in a world full of specialists.

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#consulting #secrets #generalist #advantage #specialist #ProblemSolving #PeopleProblems

specialist or generalist: illustration of a quote by Dr. William J. Mayo " A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less." Photo attribution: Flickr user environmental_illness_network

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3d

Paves the way for the Monster Under the Bed Act

RepMTG:

The Sunshine State is getting it RIGHT! 🌞

Florida is shutting down dangerous weather modification and geoengineering schemes because our skies belong to the people, not globalist elites and their experiments.

Now it’s time to do the same nationwide. My Clear Skies Act will END chemical spraying, geoengineering, and weather manipulation across America for good.

No more tampering. No more lies. Just clear, God-given skies! 🇺🇸☀️
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🚨 BREAKING: Florida's airports are now closed to any weather modification and geoengineering activities under new state law, Florida AG says.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 17h

The President using the military as his personal police force to intimidate American citizens is deeply un-American. This is the behavior of an autocrat. Full stop.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 14h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 18h

Rosie the Ribbiter

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 10h

Don't waste valuable meeting time with lectures! Social production is the way to maximize learning that leads to significant, valuable, long-term change.

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#meetings #EventDesign #lecturing #presentations #SocialProduction #practice #BehaviorChange

Don't waste valuable meeting time having experts presenting to "learners". A panel from a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Calvin is sitting at a school desk saying "THIS IS A BIG, FAT WASTE OF MY TIME!"

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 11h

Short-term traditional meeting evaluations are unreliable. They tell you nothing about the long-term effects of a session. We can do better.

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#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #bias #unreliable #HowToImprove #eventprofs

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 13h

A glossary of 38 conference participation techniques that I cover in my book "The Power of Participation".

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#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #participation #SessionFormats #GroupWork #eventprofs

conference participation techniques: a black and white photograph of jazz dancers leaping in a dance studio. Photo attribution: Flickr user teo_ladodicivideo

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 14h

How can we get better at doing anything? By being continually willing and able to notice our shortcomings and concentrate on working on them.

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#SelfImprovement #LifeLessons #shortcomings #noticing #practice

get better at doing anything: a photograph of a 1937 metal WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION PROJECT plaque

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 16h

Are you waiting for permission for your mission? Two thoughts on mission and permission from worker, author, storyteller, and musician Stephen Jenkinson.

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#mission #permission #StephenJenkinson

permission for your mission: photograph of Stephen Jenkinson

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 20h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 17h

A false assumption: Supporting meaningful connections with other attendees is not the conference organizers’ job.

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#meetings #EventDesign #PeerConference #connections #FaceBook #eventprofs

supporting meaningful connections: Adrian Segar's face book entry

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 18h

Practical guidance for meditation beginners: how to start, set intentions, use three opening bells, and develop awareness without attachment.

#meditation # MeditationForBeginners #mindfulness #practice #awareness #post

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 20h

How can we incorporate exercise into event programs? Four suggestions: walking maps, standing-in-place exercise, walking sessions, and Grab!

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#meetings #EventDesign #exercise #eventprofs

incorporate exercise into event programs: photograph of two people walking, smiling, and talking in the rain

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

Setting good explicit ground rules at the start of a conference may be the most transformative change you can make to improve your event

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#meetings #EventDesign #GroundRules #agreements #safety #eventprofs

How to improve your conference with explicit ground rules

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

Attendance versus participation. There are more chances than ever to attend a conference, but all of them require participation if you expect them to work.

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#conferences #EventDesign #eventprofs

attendance versus participation: "My philosophy is that it doesn't pay to go to a conference unless you're prepared to be vulnerable and meet people, and it doesn't pay to go to a Q&A session unless you're willing to sit in the front row… There are more chances than ever to attend, but all of them require participation if you expect them to work." —Seth Godin, On doing the work

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

I don't think the popular meeting format Open Space works very well for many participants. Here is a short critique of Open Space.

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#meetings #EventDesign #OpenSpace #critique #eventprofs #assnchat

A photograph of the principles and Law of Two Feet of Open Space, handwritten on a piece of brown paper. Photo attribution: Flickr user arvindgrover

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

I share my most important learning from the biggest consulting mistake I've made. You have probably made it too…

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#consulting #wisdom #InformedConsent #ProjectManagement #learning #mistakes

A presentation slide with a picture of Adrian Segar wearing a dunce's cap. The slide text reads, "Learning from the biggest consulting mistake I've made — and that you probably have too."

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

After four years away, we finally returned to Anguilla! Here are three more Lessons from Anguilla I learned during our two-week stay.

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#Anguilla #vacation #lessons #travel

Photograph of the view from our table on the deck of the Sandbar Restaurant, Sandy Ground, Anguilla.