Good facilitators gird themselves with knowledge of group process models, discernment skills, decision making tools, and cutting edge models. Facilitators engage teams and build capacity through the use of skillful means such as dialogue, planning, mentoring, relationship building and networking. Exploring New Leadership Forms Facilitation models good leadership. It stays open to process and participation, hears many voices and tries on new forms of leadership, always seeking new ways to point teams toward their path.
Facilitators help groups bring closure to their journey through feedback and celebration.
You need to know what your orbit is, how high you can fly and how to keep your balance among conflicting forces. You can be pulled out of your orbit by the group or you can fly out of it on your own accord. Staying in orbit is inner-directed. A visual image can communicate, in a few deft strokes, as powerfully as many paragraphs of text. The IAF wants your input into the profession of facilitation s ethics, standards, certification of facilitators, and community outreach.