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By: Karla Hill Donisch When planning any facilitation or training event, I always pack my fidget toys. As you may know, fidget toys are handheld objects that participants can “play” with. I didn’t always understand their importance. I discovered the value of fidgets during a ToP Facilitation Methods course in 2010. The experience challenged what I had learned in teacher training—that the way you know people are engaged is their level of eye contact with the teacher. At the

By Anna Peters I had the privilege of seeing the incredible Lizz Wright sing. Her voice and her poetry punched me in the gut—raw, soulful, and deeply moving. There were some free-flowing tears. Between songs, she shared a few stories, including one about her striking red and black dress. She joked it was wrinkled because her puppy ate her steamer. But the reason it was wrinkly in the first place? She’d spent the afternoon at a protest. (How badass is that to protest in a gown

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash It’s happening again. My palms are sweaty, I want to clench my fists, my face is...