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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

#Introduction 2 of 2

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 · 1h

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

#meditation # MeditationForBeginners #mindfulness #practice #awareness

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 2h

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 · 4h

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.

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 5h

Do you struggle with creative thoughts during meditation? Try this simple technique to tame your creative mind without losing your best ideas.

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#meditation #CreativePractice #MindfulProductivity #mindfulness

Tame the creative mind! Photograph of a 1960s IBM Corporation wooden wall sign laminated plaque with the word "THINK" in large letters and the phrase "COMPLIMENTS OF IBM CORPORATION" in small letters underneath.

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 7h

Kill the keynote. Invest in participatory design that creates conferences attendees love—and saves you money

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#EventDesign #eventprofs #MeetingProfs

A split image: on the right, a large audience listens to a keynote speaker on a stage in a dark room; on the left, small groups of conference attendees sit outdoors around small tables in an arbor next to a garden and pond.

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 8h

Our choice is not between free markets and state control, for most adults spend their working lives controlled by a third thing entirely: private government.

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#FreeMarkets #StateControl #PrivateGovernment #FacilitatingConnection

The cover of philosopher Elizabeth Anderson's book, "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)" The words "Private Government" are partially covered by a strip of red tape.

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 20h

Trying to build followers by following and then unfollowing those who don't follow you back? You're trashing your brand on social media.

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#SocialMedia #followers #DriveByFollowing #FollowBack #marketing #TrashingBrand

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 22h

A great, permanent, personal, and inexpensive appreciation that you can provide to meeting volunteers and staff during an event

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#events #tip #volunteers #appreciations #thanks #meetings #eventprofs

inexpensive appreciation poster: photograph of a poster for a conference I designed and facilitated, covered with written appreciations by participants and now posted proudly in my office

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 23h

Reading two articles about the value of trade show appointments reminds me of a story about the wry 13th-century Sufi philosopher Nasreddin…

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#meetings #TradeShows #appointments #associations #eventprofs #assnchat

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

Change is a verb, not a noun. Change as a noun is static; no action required. The change that matters is a verb.

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#FacilitatingChange #action

change is a verb: a photograph of a metronome framed in sunlight

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 1d

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

What's most important about an event? Focus on the event's gift (its purpose) rather than the wrapping (the logistics) and budget accordingly!

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#meetings #budget #decor #logistics #eventprofs

What's most important about an event?: a screenshot from the movie Love Actually (2003). With his wife shopping nearby, Harry (Alan Rickman) impulsively purchases an expensive necklace for his mistress — only to be tortured by the fear of discovery as Rufus (Rowan Atkinson) slowly wraps his gift.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Techbrahs are not normal.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

But that’s no excuse for not showing up.

Show up to a protest on the 18th. It’s a way to stand up and be counted for the proposition that what these people are doing to your country is not right, not acceptable.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 1d

Nevada state regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of digging without approval, releasing untreated water onto city streets and spilling muck from its trucks, according to a new document obtained by @citycastvegas.bsky.social and @propublica.org.

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.

Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
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Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia.
He cannot be deported to Ghana.
This has been directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities.
In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded.
Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports.

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 1d

We got leaked audio from Peter Thiel’s off the record antichrist lectures: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 1d

“Why is academia bending over and folding on our basic principles in such a blatant way? It’s a violation of the first amendment in such a blatant way that nobody should have obeyed it. But instead, there is this climate of fear.”

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US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

I am shocked! Shocked! Who could have predicted this?

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#sora2

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.