Facilitation isn’t magic
There are a lot of organizational structures and lived practices embedded in our bodies that we just enact by default. But through explicit facilitation practices or when we make meetings happen in a certain way, that helps change these conditioned ways of operating. In the process of learning to work this way, what really helps is, again, trust.... See more
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
A facilitator is someone trained in the skill of shaping group dynamics and collective conversations. My job is to put the right people in a room and help them to collectively think, dream, argue, heal, envision, trust, and connect for a specific larger purpose.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
At its most fundamental, facilitation is the art of making things easy, making it easier for humans to work together and get things done.