Facilitating Breakthrough | Adam Kahane

Why it is included:

Creating a warm atmosphere is no longer enough; we need to solve impossible problems with people we may not trust.

Adam Kahane, a veteran facilitator of peace treaties, argues that standard collaboration fails because we try to force agreement or politeness.

We include this to replace "gathering" with Transformative Facilitation.

Kahane provides a framework for removing obstacles that keep groups stuck—specifically the challenge of "collaborating with the enemy."

He teaches how to move a group from rigid debate to generative dialogue, leveraging differences rather than smoothing them over.

It is the essential toolkit for co-creating in low-trust, high-stakes environments.