What is completion in facilitation terms? Completion is one of the most powerful distinctions in facilitation. At its simplest, completion means finishing something with nothing left undone. It is meeting the group’s purpose and tying up all the loose ends so that people can move forward with clarity and commitment. My colleague Dale Hunter often … Continue reading Completion: Freeing up a group to move forward
Following on from my previous posting on the facilitator distinction of safety, another two important distinctions we explore in the Stage 2: Essence of Facilitation training programme and also in Dale Hunter et al.’s The Essence of Facilitation is Fearlessness and Compassion. The distinctions of Fearlessness and Compassion are the focus of today’s discussion as … Continue reading Fearlessness and Compassion
Following on from my previous posting On Distinguishing for facilitators, two important distinctions we explore in the Stage 2: Essence of Facilitation training programme are safety and trust. Trust and Safety are necessary for a group to succeed. Both also need to be maintained throughout the stages of a group’s development (see Tuckman & Jensen’s … Continue reading Safety On
Full Text PDF 324kb A chapter by Dale Hunter and Stephen J. Thorpe published in Wright, D., & Hill, S.B. (Eds.), Social Ecology and Education: Transforming Worldviews and Practices (pp. 89-100). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003033462 Abstract In this chapter, The Gift of Presence in Groups, we describe our journey of discovery into the transformative nature of presence … Continue reading The Gift of Presence in Groups: An Unfolding Story of Transformative Learning
