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
How to Think About Your Role as the Facilitator
Jeff Shannon • Lead Engaging Meetings
- 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