The role of the facilitator - to follow the 'real' intention of a process
I cannot believe I have not blogged in a whole year!!!! Where has the time gone? As a freelance independent facilitator and consultant, domestic life has enveloped me and consumed me which means inbetween balancing work and homelife, I have no time for reflective thinking about the work that I do! So now I have decided it is time to stop and write something. I have been exceptionally busy with various kinds of social processes from group coaching to diversity appreciation training to strategic planning and organisational development processes. All of these have one thing in common - group energy and group intention. By this I mean what the group really wants to do will only emerge in the moment when people come together and if you as the facilitator will allow them to express their need and intention. This despite what you have been tasked to do with the group or even what they may have asked you to do - in many cases this will have been contracted by management or part of a set ...