February 23, 2011 @ 9:20pm • Video Post • Tweet this • Share on Facebook
some thoughts on facilitating conversations / workshops…
what makes design facilitation uniquely challenging?
spider diagramming to uncover some answers / insights:
• building trust quickly in a new group setting (outsider vs insider)
• not everyone is comfortable with creative collaboration
• grasping emergent ideas and themes requires keen sensitivity
• generating new thinking is messy and chaotic—another source of discomfort
• perhaps mostly importantly, facilitator must be very self-aware to be a/effective
