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Adrian Segar
@segar.com
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I design & facilitate conferences that ➠ what folks want/need
🔸 Author of 3 meeting design books
🔸 ❤️ 2 🎤🕺🏻🧘‍♂️
🔸 Recovering academic
🔸 @ASegar@mastodon.social
🔸 Marlboro, VT, USA; Work globally
🔸 Everything about me: conferencesthatwork.com
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Adrian Segar @segar.com · Dec 3
🔸 16 years of 900+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange, being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories at conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic

#Introduction 2 of 2
Participant-Driven Conference Design & Facilitation | Adrian Segar
Expert conference design and facilitation by Adrian Segar — creator of participant-driven events that foster real connection and results.
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DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.

Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
ChatGPT cuts in action
www.politico.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Here's my letter to every event technology company trying to sell me stuff. Please read it, folks—what I describe is far too common!

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/so...

#meetings #EventDesign #selling #sales #products #services #pitching #freemium #NoPrices #eventprofs
sell me stuff: A photograph of an old-fashioned smiling salesman wearing a black hat and sitting on a train. On his lap is a opened brown suitcase that contains a miscellaneous jumble of items, including stockings and a box of KitKats. Photo attribution: Flickr user dswilliams
February 14, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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I wrote this seven years ago; since then, employers' control over employees' lives has only increased.
segar.com Adrian Segar @segar.com · 2h
Our choice is not between free markets and state control, for most adults spend their working lives controlled by a third thing entirely: private government.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/so...

#FreeMarkets #StateControl #PrivateGovernment #FacilitatingConnection
The cover of philosopher Elizabeth Anderson's book, "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)" The words "Private Government" are partially covered by a strip of red tape.
February 13, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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The default assumption should be that they’re lying
DHS: Our officer was ambushed and beaten with snow shovels and broom handles. This was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement. ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story.
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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New economic research: "We estimate that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time."
The Economic Costs of Brexit on the UK | Econofact
Brexit has had a substantial economic impact on the United Kingdom, with adverse effects on investment, productivity, employment, and growth.
econofact.org
February 13, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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Newly-examined court documents published by the DOJ show Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking minors, appears to have provided false answers on her U.S. citizenship application, potentially exposing her to immigration fraud charges.

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-ghis...

#Epstein
SCOOP: Ghislaine Maxwell Lied On Her U.S. Citizenship Application
Court documents reveal convicted sex trafficker checked "no" to questions about criminal conduct and prostitution-related activities.
migrantinsider.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:26 PM
segar.com
Our choice is not between free markets and state control, for most adults spend their working lives controlled by a third thing entirely: private government.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/so...

#FreeMarkets #StateControl #PrivateGovernment #FacilitatingConnection
The cover of philosopher Elizabeth Anderson's book, "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)" The words "Private Government" are partially covered by a strip of red tape.
February 13, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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In an apparent attempt to avoid public outcry and scrutiny, #ICE has sought to secure…leases [of 23 massive industrial warehouses] in private, ignoring potential health and safety violations and catching local elected officials off guard.

A map of the sites:

couriernewsroom.com/news/map-ice...
MAP: All 23 industrial warehouses ICE wants to turn into detention ‘death camps’
In an apparent attempt to avoid public outcry and scrutiny, ICE has sought to secure these leases in private. So we made a searchable map of every proposed site.
couriernewsroom.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
NEW: In Iowa, when someone's charges are *dismissed,* they still had to pay court fees. So prosecutors pressured ppl into pleading guilty: 'plead guilty, you'll have no fees. (If you win, you'll owe $$.)'

Iowa's Supreme Court struck that down in January... but prosecutors want to bring it all back:
In Iowa, Prosecutors Want to Bring Back Court Fees as Bargaining Chips - Bolts
Iowa's high court recently ended the practice of making defendants pay fees for charges that get dismissed. Prosecutors are backing legislation to undo the court’s ruling so they can keep using fees a...
boltsmag.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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DHS has begun purchasing warehouses to detain tens of thousands of immigrants.

The big winners? Real estate brokers facilitating the deals stand to rake in millions — including one previously run by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and now run by his son.

Cashing in on cruelty.
Empty Warehouses, Secret Deals: Insiders Poised To Profit From Trump’s Deportation Boom
As the Trump administration hunts for massive detention sites, politically connected real estate brokers are lining up t
www.levernews.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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The most popular of the in-person sessions I design and facilitate is The Solution Room. Here's how to run The Solution Room online.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...

#meetings #EventDesign #TheSolutionRoom #HowTo #online #plenary #eventprofs
run The Solution Room online: photograph of an in-person Solution Room session. Many round tables of eight people fill a large room.
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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When the meeting venue won't let me change the room setup:
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Everything is for sale.
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds," writes Joan Wallach Scott.
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
segar.com
In 15 minutes, I hear the word “batch“ spoken by one person more times than I’ve ever heard it in my entire life.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/wr...

#ShortStory #salesman #fixer #freewriting #DFW
The batch fixer. A worried man wearing a rumpled business suit sits talking on a phone at an airport.
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Cartoon by Nick Anderson
February 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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How to handle a 'quick question' that requires long answers, including turning down sales pitches and setting boundaries to protect your time.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/co...

#consulting #TimeManagement #ThirtyMinuteRule #questions
An email with the subject line Re: quick question To: Adrian Segar "Greetings Segar Consulting, Did you see my previous email about…? Sender and body of the email have been blacked out.
February 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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After 17 years of blogging about event design and facilitation, I finally write about my favorite breakfast smoothie—simple, delicious, nutritious, and unapologetically unstyled.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/un...

#smoothie
 #BreakfastSmoothie
 #nutrition
 #realfood #newpost
Adrian's breakfast smoothie sitting in a blender mug on a table in his home, together with some fruit and a table lamp. Beyond a brightly upholstered chair, a snowy Vermont winter scene is visible outside.
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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When everyone shares at a meeting, someone has to start! Here are options for determining who goes first for both single and multiple-group scenarios.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...

#meetings #EventDesign #facilitation #WhoGoesFirst #eventprofs
February 13, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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5 Reasons I'm Grateful for My Clients After 40+ Years of Consulting

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...

#consulting #gratitude
Adrian Segar working with clients at a 2019 peer conference
February 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Tragically, there is now considerable evidence that the administration is violating the Eighth Amendment at scale.
Opinion | A Very Dangerous Ruling in New Orleans
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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This is just unconscionable man
February 13, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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EXCLUSIVE: A Ukrainian dad escaped Vladimir Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.
Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart
Dmytro Kulyk is facing deportation as refugees become the Trump administration’s latest target.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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My favorite part of the lost blankie story is that they had to re-hire the pilot because there was no one else to fly them home
February 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:33 AM