Most of us aren’t experts. Not the way that the word is usually understood anyway.
But we all have expertise.
Or to put it another way: We’re all experts in our own experience.
Something awesome happens when we hold space for people to share their expertise, rather than download an opinion from a sole expert.
Here’s what it probably looks like:
Seats in circles, not rows.
Listening in silence, not filling space with talking.
Multiple voices, not didactic teaching.
Food. Always.
Feedback and reflection.
Naming connections and relationships, not differences and disconnection.