A crisp, short, precisely one-hundred-minutes practice session taken from the signature offer of Skool Beyond Borders.

I have learned many things from the theatre actor, director, and pedagogue Yoshi Oida (笈田ヨシ). I use his classic write-up The Invisible Actor (with Lorna Marshall, 1997) all the time, and I consistently find that replacing the word "actor" with "facilitator" is enough to get this book cover most of the essence of my facilitation work.

Here is a free-read of an article with three of the many lessons I learned from Oida-San. Today we concentrate on the second lesson, about Tai and Yu.

Expect a brief initiation into the concept and how to relate it to facilitation work. This is followed by peer-driven interaction and practice, and concluded by a brief learning review and retrospective - all in exactly 100 minutes.

To register as a non-Skool Beyond Borders community member, consider contributing a participation fee of no less than EUR 75.

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= nederlandstalige sessie =

Wat blijft er plakken ? - Zevende editie van een korte leermodule over het meten van leerresultaten: qualitatieve an quantitieve data, warme en koude data, real time meten en time-lapse meten. Zin en onzin - en creatieve meet-en-weet oplossingen.

Host: HRD Academy Belgie. Klik hier voor info en inschrijving.

Nederlandstalige workshop geinspireerd door het werk van Mary Overlie and Astad Deboo.

Productie in samenwerking met HRD Academy (Belgie) (hier inschrijven)..

Dit project maakt deel uit een week lang facillitator-in-residence met Francis Laleman in Domein Martinus, Zoersel, Belgie.

Viewpoints is oorspronkelijk een op ruimte en beweging gebaseerde pedagogie en artistieke praktijk, voorgesteld door de legendarische Amerikaanse kunstenares en pedagoge Mary Overlie (1946-2020). Overlie was geïnspireerd door het werk van de modernistische schilders Gennie en Robert DeWeese – en vertoefde in het gezelschap van Michel Foucault, filosoof Robert Pirsig (Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974), Fluxus componisten John Cage Philip Glass en andere spraakmakende figuren voor ze per vrachttrein van Montana naar Berkeley, California reisde om er te mediteren en bewegingstheater te studeren. Dit alles leidde in 1978 tot de School for Movement Research & Construction – waar Viewpoints, een door schilderkunst, meditatie, en fluxus geinspireerde bewegingstaal, het leven zag.

Viewpoints was Overlie’s levenswerk. Viewpoints is een grammatica voor de analyse en exploratie van ruimtelijke verhoudingen, fysische vormgeving, tijd, emotie, bewegingsmechanica en lichaamstaal. Viewpoints wordt toegepast in dans, theater en groeps- en gemeenschapsgebonden pedagogieën: in sociaal werk, scholen en facilitatie.

Doelgroep

Viewpoints is een verrijking voor pedagogen, facilitators, trainers, coaches, therapeuten en iedereen die met groepen werkt. Er is geen voorkennis of fysische vaardigheid vereist.

Saturday April 11 (9AM-12 London, 10-13 Berlin, 17-20 Hong Kong)
A three-hour workshop full of pre-summer introspection and conversations
hosted by Skool Beyond Borders

The Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1830–1833) is Hokusai’s most celebrated series and a landmark in world art. Mount Fuji appears again and again, sometimes dominant, sometimes barely visible, framed by waves, bridges, fields, laborers, and weather. Rather than portraying the mountain as a static icon, Hokusai treats it as a relational presence—unchanging yet constantly re-seen. The series explores perspective, scale, and seasonality, using repetition with variation to show how a single subject transforms depending on vantage point, time, and circumstance. It is less a documentary project than a meditation on permanence within flux.

Observed today, the Mount Fuji prints lend themselves naturally to personal introspection and reflection. Each view invites the viewer to consider where they are standing—literally and metaphorically—and how perspective shapes meaning. Fuji can be read as a personal constant: a value, purpose, or inner anchor that remains steady while life’s conditions shift around it. Moving through the series becomes an exercise in awareness: noticing what comes to the foreground, what recedes, and how the same core can appear distant, overwhelming, or quietly sustaining. In this way, Hokusai’s prints offer not just images to admire, but mirrors for reflecting on change, continuity, and one’s relationship to the larger whole.

Non-membership attendance fee : EUR 200

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A crisp, short, precisely one-hundred-minutes practice session taken from the signature offer of Skool Beyond Borders.

This workshop is taken from the “Neutralizing Management 3.0” portfolio. Why would we do so? - “Neutralized” is a response to several DEI-related issues that we have identified as problematic with the original Mgt 3.0 versions of the activity cards. Participants in classic Mgt 3.0 workshops have been consistently warning us for their postcolonial stance, cultural bias, confirmation bias, non-clarity between needs, wants, desires, and motivators, and other related issues. Quite obviously we feel addressed by this call.

In our tweaked Management 3.0 sessions we play the relevant card games in an adapted online format, Our set consists of blank numbered cards (numbered from 1 to 10 and from 1 to 7 respectively) and an unlimited number of wildcards. In doing so, we demonstrate how even a completely neutralized, decolonized, and non-assumptive version of the "card games" leads to strong, meaningful, and helpful conversations about the motivational drivers of an individual or a team, or the agency within which delegation of accountabilities is possible and/or granted.

Expect a brief initiation into the concept and how to relate it to your facilitation work. This is followed by peer-driven interaction and practice, and concluded by a brief learning review and retrospective - all in exactly 100 minutes.

To register as a non-Skool Beyond Borders community member, consider contributing a participation fee of no less than EUR 75.

With your Payment, mention name and date of the workshop you are registering for.
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Choose your currency (EUR, GBP, SGD, USD).
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Agile Facilitation Beyond Borders Pte Ltd (Singapore).

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Francis Laleman bv (Belgium).

This is the workshop Zoom Link

Start day of the 2026 global online cohort in our ground-breaking learning design and facilitation program. The program runs over 30 weeks, with an average minimum of 2 learning hours per week.
Join us in this completely revamped program, now driven by more peer learning, asynchronous learning at your own pace, monthly live online cohort sessions, and a tailor-made Skool Beyond Borders learning platform.
Read more and register here.

A crisp, short, precisely one-hundred-minutes practice session taken from the signature offer of Skool Beyond Borders.

A number of our dojos are based on immersive art experiences, which are presented as empty vessels from which learning takeaways are extracted through meaningful dialogues.

One of these formats which has been particularly successful is the session based on Two, a short film by the grand master of Bengali arthouse film and Oscar winner Satyajit Ray (1921-1992). Others are art-based storytelling ateliers, driven by incidental art by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Rao Pingru, Saul Leiter, and many others.

I consider Satyajit Ray as one of the main inspirators of my life and work.

Ray often worked for commercial clients. Two was created as an assignment for Esso in 1954. Even today, it proves to still be an extraordinary vehicle for learning.

In this article, I describe a short format, designed to last no more than 40 minutes. This is how I ran this activity in the early years. Later, I extended the post-viewing dialogues with insight-sharing rounds up to 100 minutes - a strategy that helps for learning takeaways to be collectivized and become more multi-faceted, and stronger.

To register as a non-Skool Beyond Borders community member, consider contributing a participation fee of no less than EUR 75.

With your Payment, mention name and date of the workshop you are registering for.
Pay from any bank to Wise
Choose your currency (EUR, GBP, SGD, USD).
For transfers done through Wise, expect a receipt from
Agile Facilitation Beyond Borders Pte Ltd (Singapore).

Pay from any bank app to Paypal
Pay from any bank app to Buy-Me-A-Coffee (in units of EUR 5)
For transfers done by these means, expect a receipt from
Francis Laleman bv (Belgium).

This is the workshop Zoom Link

= nederlandstalige sessie =

Korte leersessie rond online vergadertechnieken. Niet het standaard receptje, maar wel veel zinnige en nuttige tips en goede raad van een veelgebruiker.

Host: HRD Academy Belgie. Klik hier voor info en inschrijving.

Resourceful Exformation’s 6th Anniversary

A series of three short workshops (May 18-19-20), bringing together a wide spectrum of facilitators, aficionados and Resourceful Exformation book readers and practitioners (from the worlds of education, design, and the arts) - in an online space, made ready for exformative discussion, activities, dialogues and experiments.

get your copy of the book here

This one-hundred-minutes session is in the context of our work on Art-Based Learning.

Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978) was an American singer-songwriter and political activist, who never ceased to inspire me in (roughly) the decade before she passed and the decade thereafter. I owned just one of her (much sought after) albums, added to which I possessed a BASF tape reel with songs I recorded from one of the illegal radio stations that used to operate from vessels anchored outside the territorial waters in the North Sea.

Malvina's parents were immigrants of Russian and Hungarian descent. They were active in socialist, pacifist, and communist organizations - opposing World War I and actively promoting human rights, equality, voting rights, and social welfare for underprivileged migrant labourers.

In the interwar years Malvina teamed up with Earl Robinson and Pete Seeger. At the same time she attended Berkeley, where she obtained a PhD in Music Theory. In 1934, she married William Reynolds, a carpenter and labour organizer. A lifelong Unitarian Universalist, she first appeared on a recording when shzme was forty years old.

Malvina died with pancreatic cancer in 1978. I heard about her demise on the radio. Her work remains incredibly relevant, even more so in the times we live today.

Like all my work in Art-Based Learning, the present workshop has three outcomes:

1. participants familiarize themselves with an art maker and/or one of their works

2. participants understand that any piece of art can serve as a placeholder for any kind of learning outcome

3. participants are able to apply this principle by creating relevant learning outcome for them and their organization, based on the art piece under scrutiny in the workshop

In this workshop, we start from the lyrics of a select choice of songs taken from the album Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth, Columbia 1967, currently available on most of the prevalent streaming platforms.

Registration

To register as a non-Skool Beyond Borders community member, consider contributing a participation fee of no less than EUR 75.

With your Payment, mention name and date of the workshop you are registering for.
Pay from any bank to Wise
Choose your currency (EUR, GBP, SGD, USD).
For transfers done through Wise, expect a receipt from
Agile Facilitation Beyond Borders Pte Ltd (Singapore).

Pay from any bank app to Paypal
Pay from any bank app to Buy-Me-A-Coffee (in units of EUR 5)
For transfers done by these means, expect a receipt from
Francis Laleman bv (Belgium).

This is the workshop Zoom Link

This online Warm Data Lab edition is is hosted by Skool Beyond Borders. Your hosts are Ludovic Curtil and Brent Que, with Francis Laleman.

Attendance is free, also feel free to bring guests of your own. Register by letting us know your name and the names of the guests you intend to bring.
If you are not a Skool Beyond Borders member, use this contact form.

= nederlandstalige sessie =

Wat blijft er plakken ? - Achtste editie van een korte leermodule over het meten van leerresultaten: qualitatieve an quantitieve data, warme en koude data, real time meten en time-lapse meten. Zin en onzin - en creatieve meet-en-weet oplossingen.

Host: HRD Academy Belgie. Klik hier voor info en inschrijving.

= nederlandstalige sessie =

Korte leersessie rond online vergadertechnieken. Niet het standaard receptje, maar wel veel zinnige en nuttige tips en goede raad van een veelgebruiker.

Host: HRD Academy Belgie. Klik hier voor info en inschrijving.