What is Facilitation?Facilitate (verb): make easy or less difficult or more easily achieved. "A facilitator's job is to make it easy for a group to be successful." “Facilitation is the art of leading group process toward agreed-on
outcomes in ways that elicit participation, creativity, and ownership
from everyone involved. At its heart is the art of calling out the wisdom
in groups and guiding individuals into fully participating and collaborating
in creating solutions and results for themselves.” “A facilitated session is a highly structured meeting in which
the meeting leader (the facilitator) guides the participants through
a series of predetermined steps to arrive at a result that is created,
understood and accepted by all the participants.” “Group facilitation is a process in which a person whole selection
is acceptable to all the members of the group, who is substantively
neutral, and who has no substantive decision-making authority diagnoses
and intervenes to help a group improve how it identifies and solves
problems and makes decisions, to increase the group’s effectiveness.
The facilitator’s main task is to help the group increase effectiveness
by improving its process and structure. Some good reference books define facilitation as this. Visit us again to see some articles on facilitation listed on this page. |
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