Planning for the event

• What is the purpose and intent of the engagement
  
  
  • Discovery, sensemaking, or just engagement?
  
  
  • Insights, capturing learning, decision making, or evaluation?


• What do you know about the cohort you are working with??
  
  
  • Do they know each other?
  
  
  • Have they worked together before?
  
  
  • Are comfortable with ambiguity?
  
  
  • Are they likely to need more

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With Process Facilitation

Core competencies currently outlined by the International Association of Facilitators (https://www.iaf-world.org) that facilitators demonstrate the following skills:

• Listening. A facilitator needs to listen actively and hear what every learner or team member is saying.


• Questioning. A facilitator should be skilled in asking

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The facilitator is there to manage a process

- not to be an expert, to demonstrate intentionally or otherwise exercise authority or influence over the outcome. To have a

light footprint

is a minimum, no footprint is the goal. Complex facilitation processes and methods are designed with this role in mind. To support this:

• The facilitator should not

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