Archive for the ‘Community Engagement’ Category

Facilitating Advisory Groups: Labels & Social Contracts

. When convening a group, two of the primary tasks of a facilitator are to clearly articulate the label that is applied to the group and to create an appropriate social contract between group members.  The terms “workgroup,” “taskforce,” “coalition” and “advisory group” are labels that are often used loosely and ...Read More

Constructivism in Facilitation

. Once a couple of years ago, I was in a car listening to my sister swear at the voice on her car’s GPS system and I once rented  a car with the sometimes handy device. Until recently, that was the extent of my expertise with car directional GPS systems but ...Read More

Empowerment Education in Facilitation

. Raise you hand if in the last three months you have sat in a meeting that was dominated by process model of information presentation ==> discussion ==> and decision; followed by information presentation ==> discussion ==> and decision, in a pattern that was repeated until the end of the meeting?  ...Read More

Measuring Network Effects in Community Engagement

. At the most basic level all facilitated group processes can and should be measured across the two dimensions of process and outcomes.  Process examines the road you took to get to where you wanted to end up, and outcomes measure whether or not you got to your destiny.  In one ...Read More