The SAGA Facilitation Model: Skills and Tools for Your Meetings, Workshop, and Trainings by Rios Joseph

Author:Rios, Joseph [Rios, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leadership and Values in Action, LLC
Published: 2020-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

“Every change begins with a vision and a decision to take action.”

David Bornstein

Applying Facilitation Skills to Any Meeting, Workshop or Experience

F or anyone about to embark on a journey, you need to make sure you have a trustworthy map. Or at least a sense of how to use the landmarks around you to know you’re staying on course. Those making a journey will ask in advance “what should I look for and what does the it sound like when I arrive at the destination?” Similarly, a good facilitator will have put the time into creating the journey and share this information with fellow facilitators also on the journey.

Facilitators create an environment where a number of outcomes are happening. You are responsible for keeping the discussion focused and the participants engaged. You ask questions that advance the conversation and work toward the deepest understanding possible. A good facilitator listens to participants and continues to invite all voices to share thoughts and beliefs. You care create an environment of trust and support so disagreement and understanding can surface. And you leave participants challenged and willing to engage in follow-up conversations.

That is no small feat!

With all of this work, it is critical to know a little bit more about how to stage a facilitation, prepared to do all of this work. The more you prepare for the possibilities, the better and more engaged you can stay with the people who are part of your group.

As shared before, the order in which you ask questions can be as important as the questions themselves. Imagine that in facilitation you are constructing a building with your group members. The answers they provide to your questions, and the learning that takes place, are the bricks; the questions are the scaffolding that allows you to build higher and higher. You have to start at the bottom and work your way up.

By using the SAGA model, you are helping the group by preparing the scaffold In order to continue building, you need to start with the initial questions about the topic (Sharing), then move to what the concepts mean (Analyzing) and how they work in the real world (Generalizing), before ending with a play for how to use the lessons learned (Applying).

But the scaffolding can begin with the very start of the event or activity. This section will address some of the ways you can better prepare yourself to manage the meeting, workshop or experience and still stay grounded in the facilitation. Nothing beats experience to help you learn, but I hope to share a few tips to prepare you for the possibilities.

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