Whole
Person Process Facilitation creates meetings that produce results
by tapping into the creativity and collective genius of the people
in your organization.
There are
many things to pay attention to in ensuring good group process
facilitation. We deliver those things and then go beyond them,
recognizing the unseen world of intuitive knowledge, including
the collective consciousness, as valuable assets for any organization
to work from. Whole Person Process Facilitation works well with
groups from 6-150 people and from 3 hours in length to several
days.
There are
many theories and frameworks covering each of the components,
including those regarding energy work and working with intuition.
We have chosen theories and frameworks that we have found to work
in enabling consistent learning results in adults and what many
who work with us say is like "magic". What we offer
here is not the "only way". Its usefulness is that it
works, has a good track record, is transferable to any situation,
and is duplicable and simple.
Meetings
of any kind are useful only if learning is taking place. There
is certainly preparation required. Our promise to you is that
through this way of facilitating process, learning is enhanced,
potential is tapped into that has lain dormant, and in the end,
it takes less time and time is used more effectively. The group
benefits and achieves outcomes, usually beyond their expectations.
In
using Whole Person Process Facilitation, the components that are
attended to in designing the meeting include:
1. Creating
an accepting rather than defensive climate. Placement of chairs,
role of food, other décor, attitude and responses. Being
conscious of the implications of actions and behaviors of the
facilitator.
2. Introductions.
The difference between authenticity and icebreakers.
3. Hopes
and fears as a way of identifying objectives.
4. Right
placement of your statement of objectives for your meeting/teaching
session.
5. Adult
learning styles using the Learning Style Inventory.
6. Right
Brain + Left Brain + easily connecting integrated use of the two
= whole brain learning and problem solving.
7. Intuition.
8. Transfer
in and bridging exercises.
9. Varying
the levels the facilitator works on-in front of group, with group,
apart from group.
10. Maximizing
energy of the group by doing activities singularly, in pairs,
triads, fours, whole group. How and when to use each of these
and how to use them to work with each other to keep the energy
high.
11. Timing
12. Attending
to the energy of the facilitator and 'taking care' of them
13. Working
beyond the information that is provided by the five senses and
intellectual knowledge
14. Feedback
tied into hopes and fears. Evaluation that is useful and also
part of the ongoing learning experience.
Guiding questions that we ask ourselves when designing and conducting
a process facilitated meeting include:
* Do we have
a way of introductions that already taps into whole brain thinking
so that we can get the "whole person", including brain
and heart, into the room quickly?
* Have we
given people a chance to express hopes and fears, identifying
their right to have emotions in the meeting?
* Have we
created opportunities for intuitive knowledge to be expressed?
* Food!
* Environment!
* Are we
attending to creating an accepting rather than defensive climates
- are we doing our own inner work on ourselve in "parking
our baggage at the door" and placing our attention to what
takes place in our session together?
* Preparation
is more than content. It is self. Have we prepared both ourseves
and the content?
* Have we
created opportunities for all learning styles to benefit?
* Have we
kept things simple in structure to allow for maximum learning?
* Are our
transfer in and bridging exercises good ones for what we are intending
to achieve?
* Have we
paid attention to the different levels that we work on to facilitate
learning - with the group, apart from the group, in front of the
group?
* Level of
consciousness about our actions/behavior?
* Staggering
learning - pacing as an attunement to energy-attention to when
work is to be singular, in pairs, triads, fours, and whole group.
Is the timing for each component well thought out?
* How have
we attended to right brain/left brain learning throughout?
* How have
we attended to intuition throughout?
With Whole
Person Process Facilitation, we stay with a basic design, but
make adjustments as we go in order to meet the needs of the group
and to ensure that the group works towards its stated outcomes
and objectives.
Bringing a Whole Person Facilitation Process Meeting to your Location
Whole
Person Facilitation Training Workshops
