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Invitation Goes Further Than Manipulation. It can be very tempting to use charm and pressure to bend a group to your will. Especially if you tell yourself that your will is just to help them achieve their goals. But if you manipulate them to completion, the results won’t stick, because they didn’t do the work to actually get to the conclusion thems
... See moreAt its most fundamental, facilitation is the art of making things easy, making it easier for humans to work together and get things done.
We all see through biases, through our own history, or more importantly, through our own belief systems. These beliefs, or pictures, are often rooted in several places: beliefs we have formed about marriage, beliefs about our partner, and beliefs about ourselves.
facilitation is making it as easy as possible for groups of people to do the hard work of dreaming, planning, visioning, and organizing together; and mediation is supporting people when conflicts or misunderstandings arise that make it hard for them to hear and understand each other in direct conversation
the difference between facilitation and mediation
“When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.”—Patrick Lencioni
Buy-in is a coveted commodity for coaches, and true buy-in comes by first establishing relationships based upon trust and understanding.