Tips: What tips do you have for the Facilitator?
Edwin Rutsch
Main overall Tip is just to do it. Learn by doing and don’t practice forever. I have seen some processes where the participants just keep practicing and try to get perfect at it and never actually facilitate. Learning by doing I find is a good way to learn and grow. In the human centered design community they say, fail early and fail often, you will get to success sooner.. It’s a way to overcome the fear of messing up.
William Filler
T be real and respectful, that’s more powerful than you realize.
Susan Campbell
Specifically mention to the timekeeper the s/he/it should hold the “time’s up” card up long enough for the speaker to register it.
model the mindset and process.
If People frustrated with the practice. Let people know this is a practice.
Sam Kifer
If participants seem frustrated with the slow nature of the communication process, I have found it helpful to acknowledge their frustration and how different this process is to “normal” communication, provide them options to jot their thoughts down in a journal, and reiterate the benefits of following the process (i.e. slowing down the process helps to eliminate potential misunderstandings and assumptions so that everyone can be seen and understood more completely)
I have found it very helpful to model responses first for participants