Alliance World Cafe: Power and Appeasement

In this unique conversational format, we will explore an overarching topic through two un-facilitated conversational rounds. Each round focuses on a new question carefully crafted to build understanding incrementally. By rotating to a different small group for each round, there is an organic flow of insights and cross-pollination of perspectives.

The Alliance World Cafe gathering is one of the many events we host as part of our Seasonal Themes in the Alliance Mighty Networks space. Each Alliance World Cafe gathering will be hosted by a Certification Trainer who will welcome Alliance members, facilitate a connecting practice, manage the two breakout room rounds, and bring folks back together at the end to share back into the whole group as much or as little as they like.

Second quarter of 2025 seasonal theme: Power and Appeasement

Host: Nkem Ndefo

Discussion questions: 

• Round 1: As a facilitator, what helps you to recognize when your clients/participants are appeasing you? What principles, practices, and/or specific actions have helped you to shift this dynamic in real-time?
• Round 2: As a facilitator, how do you help your clients/participants to build self-awareness of when they appease? How do you help your clients/participants distinguish between appeasement as a necessary survival response and moments where it may be possible to shift down or out of appeasement?

Come bring your ideas, experiences, curiosity, and wisdom as we co-create a gentle, connected space to expand our understanding, surface new perspectives, and accompany one another in our learning.

Don’t forget to bring your beverage and a snack – it is a cafe afterall! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Please note this event is only for graduates of The Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification Program. Access to the workshop is through the private Toolkit Training Alliance space in Mighty Networks.