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Trailer: Welcome to Eight Arms · Eight Arms: Developing the craft of working with groups

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  SPEAKER_00: Everything's been planned.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know your material and then just a few minutes in, something happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: The room might go quiet or one person won't stop talking or perhaps you spill
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  SPEAKER_00: a glass of water over your notes and
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  SPEAKER_00: the whole thing starts heading somewhere you didn't expect.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you work with groups,
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  SPEAKER_00: you'll likely know this feeling or perhaps the fear of it possibly happening to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you'll know that a lot of what helps in these moments just doesn't make it into
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  SPEAKER_00: the training manuals.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you'll probably also know the other moments when the room comes alive,
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  SPEAKER_00: a quiet person finally speaks up,
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  SPEAKER_00: or a group gets somewhere it couldn't have got on its own.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those don't happen by accident either.
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  SPEAKER_00: Working with groups is a craft.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's the planning and the material, but there's also the part that happens live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reading the room, adapting on the spot, knowing when to push forwards and when to hold back.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Tom Cleary and this is Eight Arms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Practical, focused episodes on the craft of working with groups.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's for anybody who runs sessions with other people,
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  SPEAKER_00: trainers,
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  SPEAKER_00: coaches,
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  SPEAKER_00: team leaders,
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  SPEAKER_00: people running workshops or meetings,
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  SPEAKER_00: whether you've been doing it for years or you've ended up doing it
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  SPEAKER_00: without really planning to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why Eight Arms?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because working with groups can feel like you need eight of them sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Holding the content,
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  SPEAKER_00: reading the room,
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  SPEAKER_00: keeping an eye on the time, noticing that quiet person in the corner.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the octopus imagery is because octopuses are curious,
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  SPEAKER_00: adaptable problem solvers, which feels like a pretty good role model for what we do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each episode will take one skill,
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  SPEAKER_00: challenge or idea, and gives you something you can use next time you're in the room.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some episodes are super short.
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  SPEAKER_00: Short enough for your cup of coffee,
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  SPEAKER_00: or on the walk to your next session,
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  SPEAKER_00: or when opening your laptop to start the online one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Others go a little bit deeper into things like the psychology of what's happening in the room.
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  SPEAKER_00: But each one comes back to something you can use next time you're with a group.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you'd like to listen to longer conversations about the human stories and
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  SPEAKER_00: the people behind group work,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can find these too on my other podcast, The Human Side of Facilitation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Follow Eight Arms on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if there's something you'd love an episode on, get in touch.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would really like to hear from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you in the first episode.
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