Episode 050
March 4, 2020
050: What Happens When You Get 11 Facilitators into an Organised but Unstructured Group Conversation?
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Intro
50 episodes of Workshops Work – wow! What a joy every episode has been. Thank you for joining me on this journey – whether this is your first or fiftieth time listening.
To mark this milestone, I brought together ten Workshops Work alumni for a fishbowl discussion about facilitation.
We covered a range of topics in such detail, it’s a struggle to summarise it in these show notes. If you are interested in hearing what a room of facilitators has to say about the complexities, joys, and novelties of our profession, I am very happy to present to you this episode.
Thank you again for helping me on my journey to 50 episodes. Here’s to the next milestone…
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Questions and Answers
03:23 How do you ensure everyone in the room has the same understanding? Do you do so before or during a workshop?
08:08 How do you make sure everyone has a role?
11:51 What is your experience of wanting to act as a facilitator but knowing that you should not?
13:10 How do you deal with having assumptions about participants?
14:41 Neutrality and conflict
21:52 How do you make space for people in a fair and balanced way?
25:39 Neutrality, readiness, and being present
30:51 Reflecting on the experience of the fishbowl
40:54 What brings you the most joy from the transformation in the room of your workshops?
41:56 Coming back to discomfort
49:21 What do you do to limit yourself and avoid taking too much space when speaking?
51:54 Do you have any short lines you use to transfer power in the room?
53:11 Checking in on the participant’s experiences of the discussion
Links
007 – Mindset Management – with Jeremy Akers
011 – How to design brainstorming sessions for huge groups – with Frans Scheepens
020 – Create experiences for your audience to achieve results – with Rein Sevenstern
021 – How to use Liberating Structures to translate the purpose into a process – with Max Brouwer
030 – The day after! How to effectively document to achieve results – with Mireille Beumer
037 – How to facilitate group decisions in 4 easy steps – with Marjolijn de Graaf
041 – Presence, Mindfulness and Facilitation – with Amaranatho Robey