by Margaret Taylor | Jun 13, 2017 | Facilitation
If we go to a dictionary and look for the original meaning of the word “facilitate” we will find that to facilitate is “to render easier; to promote; to help forward; to lesson the labour of…” As facilitators we work with groups to make...
by Margaret Taylor | Dec 1, 2015 | Facilitation
Fran Peavey’s chapter on strategic questioning is one of the best descriptions and instructions on the questions and the sequence of questioning facilitators can use to get people to think and act imaginatively and strategically. I think this was written in the...
by Margaret Taylor | Aug 15, 2015 | Facilitation
Truly listening means truly and wholeheartedly engaging: leaning in; focussing; responding. Some years ago in my early days of facilitation, I found myself drifting out of focus in a workshop. Yes, one that I was facilitating! This...