facilitation

Have you ever been part of an important group conversation where things just seem to go awry, where the conversation spun off into nowhere, one person dominated, others didn't speak up, and the goals of the meeting were left on the side of the road?

If so, it’s very likely that you needed a skilled facilitator.

My experience as a facilitator is to enhance productive communication among meeting participants and to ensure positive group dynamics.

It means working to create a ‘safe enough’ container for people to be both truthful and respectful as well as sensitive and fluid with different cultural norms.

As your facilitator, I encouraging people who have a harder time participating to speak up as well as remind people of communication agreements to those who ramble or who speak very freely in full group.

There are always going to be elements of tension in any group when strong emotions are present. But those tensions are fruitfully worked with if individuals in the group feel that the facilitator is making space for their point of view.

This is my role as a facilitator - to be fully present, engage with sensitivity, and to embody empathy for all of the voices that are in the room.