Facilitating is different from instructing. It is a form of steering a process that gives more space to the participants, and thus to the unforeseen. This checklist gathers a few tips on how facilitators can successfully meet this challenge.
- Focus on the participants' goals, evaluations, feelings and opinions.
=> Which for you means, to step back with your personal contributions or opinions.
- Take every participant serious and treat all participants in an equal way.
=> Allow all opinions and ideas to be presented.
- Don't evaluate contributions of your participants.
=>Just describe what you perceive in a neutral way.
- Have the goal of your unit always in mind. And if needed, help the group in seeing the goal again.
- Motivate the group to find constructive rules for discussion.
- Make your observation of group's behavior transparent.
=> Mirror, how they deal with irritations or conflicts.
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