From the course: Workshop Facilitation
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Different types of facilitation
- Being a workshop facilitator is a very important role. You help people come together to achieve something that matters to them, like a professional skill or engaging in personal growth. How you set up the experience and the way you lead the participants through it is instrumental to them reaching their goals. People sign up for and attend workshops to gain knowledge and improve skills in a shared group process. This means that the facilitator's role actually has three dimensions. First, you're helping people move towards specific goals or outcomes. There's some state they want to reach at the end of the workshop that they don't have at the beginning. Second, you're creating and leading a group process that moves them forward together. This means you can leverage opportunities for interaction and collaboration that will help people shift in a way that they might not be able to independently. Third, you're creating an environment where each individual person can actively participate…
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