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-**[this page a working draft only] Maggie 2/2** +Transdisciplinary facilitation exists in the space between traditional specialisms and disciplines.  It involves assisting people to not only bring their expertise and experience to the table, but simultaneously transcend this to engage in new, ungenreable activities and actions in collaboration with others. 
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-Transdisciplinary facilitation exists in the space between traditional specialisms and disciplines.  It is the point where people not only bring their expertise and experience to the table, but simultaneously transcend this to engage in new, ungenreable activities and actions in collaboration with others.+=== Transdisciplinary versus interdisciplinary? ===
    
 +Here is a quote that helps to define the difference between these two areas..in this case in the context of research:
  
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 We define transdisciplinary studies as projects that both integrate academic researchers from different unrelated disciplines and non-academic participants, such as land managers and the public, to research a common goal and create new knowledge and theory. Transdisciplinarity combines interdisciplinarity with a participatory approach." {{:trandisciplinarytress.pdf|Tress, Tress and Fry}} We define transdisciplinary studies as projects that both integrate academic researchers from different unrelated disciplines and non-academic participants, such as land managers and the public, to research a common goal and create new knowledge and theory. Transdisciplinarity combines interdisciplinarity with a participatory approach." {{:trandisciplinarytress.pdf|Tress, Tress and Fry}}
  
-=== Why is it useful? ===+=== Why transdisciplinary and why now? ===
  
 Healthy, collaborative relationships have always been a major key to success in any enterprise, and are the bedrock to society. But why is transdisciplinary collaboration particularly important right now? Healthy, collaborative relationships have always been a major key to success in any enterprise, and are the bedrock to society. But why is transdisciplinary collaboration particularly important right now?
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   * the presence of intermediaries that support interaction and process not just manage content eg. facilitators and brokers like Foam, Brussels   * the presence of intermediaries that support interaction and process not just manage content eg. facilitators and brokers like Foam, Brussels
  
 +It is the intermediaries, the transdisciplinary facilitators that provide support for all of the other aspects through both role-modelling, and also classic facilitation skills such as paying attention to process as well as content.
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 +Transdisciplinary facilitation can involve one-off workshop situations, or macro level facilitation on larger projects. Facilitation can occur in multiple rhealms including physical and digital realities.  When using mechanisms such as ARGs it can involve facilitating different perceptions with reality itself.
  
  

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