Facilitation skills lab

In online and/or face-to-face settings

At its essence, facilitation is process support that helps create wise decisions – by guiding the process to foster focus, inspiration, and shared ownership of results.

Facilitation skills help:

• Generate ways forward on complex issues
• Run more meaningful, creative and productive meetings
• Make wise decisions
• Help align project team members towards shared goals
• Create collaborative work cultures
• Enliven, and bring meaning, to ‘routine gatherings’ such as conferences, team-building events, celebrations, learning events ...

How:

Workshops are highly interactive; adaptable to the group's needs and aspirations; covering a wide range of issues that make or break a facilitated process: from a facilitator’s inner attitude (assumptions, focus, hospitality) to understanding group dynamics to experiencing easy-to-use techniques that can be applied to a variety of participatory setting.
 

Key topics addressed:

• Overview of a facilitated process: preparation, delivery, reporting, reflection
• Contracting with client – what answers you need
• Tools and techniques for divergent and convergent phases of group visioning processes:
  • Finding gripping inquiry focus/problem/challenge
  • Understanding large picture, finding common ground
  • Idea generation & selection
  • Support for implementation
  • Process/project reviews for co-learning

• Decision-making formats that best fit specific contexts
• Maintaining safe & brave space with perspective towards results
• Power of questions
• Summarising and reporting
• Working with intensity (polarisation, conflict, emotions)
• Working in online contexts