A Facilitator is a person, experienced a group helps their goals to reach, without assigning itself to a participating party.

The Facilitator supports the group in the reaching of consent regarding the ranges of topics relevant during the group process.

Thus a load-carrying basis for future success is created together.

Definition of the term

Origin and meaning of the word: "“Making possible"”, "“facilitating"” - however not in the sense by simplifying, but easy-made by.

Paulo Freire, Latin American reform paedagogue and founder of the term.

It became also of Carl R. Rogers in its book: Learn in liberty in the sense used by 'promoter of learning.

The role of the Facilitators

The role defines itself as process company and not by active bringing in of solution types by the Facilitator.

The basic abilities of a Facilitators predominantly concern group communication practices: Timing, agenda management, choice of suitable recording assistance.

The continuing abilities refer also:

• Observation gift for the group and individual participants
• Process understanding
• the art of the intervention technology for the promotion of the group productivity

A successful Facilitator unites respect other one opposite and an attentive and experienced handling way with multilayered up to critical group processes.

If no consent is attainable in a group process, then the group is led by creation of a understanding framework by a clarifying process of the diverging key topics.

Some the aspects of those a Facilitator during a group process takes care of:

• Remaining time for the Vorankommmen point out
• The group help to fall back to suitable basic rules and consider also continuous
• The group in addition stop the goal-prominent framework to keep
• Touch down to a "“safe"” situation in the all involved one without reservation to bring in itself can
• Recapitulatory offers of individual expressions and important partial results bring in around mutual understanding and equivalent consideration of all participants to support
• Visualization of reached agreements and results. Basic formation for common understanding and jointly carried formulations
• Visualization of the relevant topics in jointly carried formulation
• Offer "“more floating"” to offer possibly directly not expressed questions over to the process assistance
• Open framework holds around "“high-speed shots"” and/or "“simple solutions"” and thus artificial restricting the comfort zone or even exclusion of the actual topics to avoid
• Area for bringing in for less dominant factor group participant create

Aspects of behavior some Facilitator outer-closes

• A certain opinion/statement support
• Own opinions bring in
• The group from precautionary measure of "“are called"” topics hold
• Solution notions as direction givers actively bring in

Role difference: Coach & Facilitator

Often the terms Facilitator and coaches without sufficient demarcation are used. Defining to a Facilitator the coach takes over an active role and leads the group by a firmly given "“curriculum"” around knowledge to convey and thus a training aim defined first to achieve.

Further meanings of "“Facilitator"”

The term Facilitator is common in the English linguistic area far and means for the reason after "“to bring in itself over the other one the activity to facilitate"”.

In the Psychotherapie:

Here the role understanding of the Facilitators the group participants is to be supported during the conscious making of your feelings too each other.

In the field of training:

Here the Facilitator beside the regular teacher supports physically or mentally disadvantaged participants with the reaching of the training aim.

Other one:

To describe the term Facilitator also used around persons, who work in the case of illegal people transportation via international borders away.

The term Facilitator is also with adoption commitments with those a person tries needy children with the suitable foster parents together to lead.

Literature

• Sandy Schuman (editor). The IAF Handbook OF Group Facilitation: Best Practices from the leading Organization in Facilitation. Jossey bass, 2005. ISBN 0-7879-7160-X

• Roger black (Author); The Skilled Facilitator; Jossey bass; ISBN 0-7879-4723-7 (new ones & Revised July 2002)

Related links

Resuming

• Qualification fields for the group dynamics - Austrian society for group dynamics and system information

Sources of Internet

• universe in one spirit - resources for the group work
• There Jerof - Mediation & Facilitation - company of successful group and project processes
• Kommunikationslotsen.de - Facilitating CHANGE

English

• The internationally Association OF Facilitators
• The internationally Association OF Facilitators Methods DATA cousin
• The Group Facilitation list server RK the University OF Albany NY
• The master Facilitator journal: e-zine for facilitators

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