50 Remote-Friendly Icebreakers

Say goodbye to boring meetings! This book contains easy instructions and variations for introductions, energizers and warmup activities, guaranteed to help get everyone more engaged, more connected, and more productive. This book is for you if you run any kind of...

7 rules for group discussion

I attended an educational intensive training «Island-1021» on the Russky Island. There I decided to take a break from my professional activities — facilitation (some call it moderation) and try a role of an ordinary participant in group discussions in order to see and...

A Facilitator Decision-Making Model

The Facilitator Decision-Making Model enables the facilitator to guide a group of participants through the process of making a decision. The model has 4 topics: Context, Content, Type of decision and Facilitation. Each topic gives guidance of what a facilitator needs...

3 Practical Ideas from Germany

How do we as facilitators develop further – 3 practical ideas? We have been discussing this topic over coffee a number of times in the last year, and here are some of our favourite ideas.  

Facilitation — Hype or Not?

Such requests as “Please, could you recommend a professional facilitator …” pop up as ever more often across social networks. Dozens and sometimes hundreds of names come up. But looking at most of them you can’t help thinking: “What do they have to do with...