What is facilitation?

• leveraging transformation processes that are meaningfully designed and successfully executed incorporating diverse perspectives
• exploiting the knowledge and power of the entire group or all actors in the system
• respecting the freedom and autonomy of the participants, synthesizing their goals and abilities with the goals and potentials of the organization
• initiating concrete steps and projects in a solution-oriented way
• enabling active participation of people in meetings, workshops, conferences and transformation processes

How does facilitation work best?

With people

• holding the greatest possible variety of perspectives and knowledge backgrounds
• feeling the same urgency for the topic at hand
• actively shaping sustainable change in areas that actually affect them

With a pilot group

• consisting of people from diverse positions in the organizations
• developing success-criteria and framework conditions
• enabling wiser process decisions through multiple perspectives

Questions for the work and composition of a pilot group:

• Who needs to talk to whom about what?
• Who has the power and means to get things moving?
• Who is affected by the effects of transformation?

With the whole organization

“Community-building first, decision-making second” – Comprehensive changes in real time through inspiring ways of working and intelligent participation processes for large and small groups:

• Circle Way – “A Leader in every chair!” A method that creates true community and empowers people to take responsibility for the common cause
• Open Space – engaging in meaningful dialogues in large groups and reach achievable and tangible results through a high degree of self-organization
• Appreciative Inquiry – employing an appreciative leadership philosophy and method to find out what is already working best and what needs to be done to get more out of it
• Dynamic Facilitation – reaching new perspectives in the face of seemingly unsolvable problems and dilemmas with a group
• Future Search – shaping the future, using a complex method of organizational development with all key people for a topic
• World Café – making meaningful dialogues possible in a pleasant atmosphere through a clear and structured approach to yield tangible results
• Liberating Structures – leveraging a wide range of innovative methods to make working in groups easier and more dynamic in an appreciative way