For the past weeks, I've worked on a Facilitation Glossary to explain some of the common terms we facilitators use. I always had this in my head and finally found some time to make it happen. Each term comes with a definition, a detailed explanation, and some frequently asked questions. You can browse through the glossary here: https://www.facilitator.school/glossary Let me know what you are thinking and if you are missing a term/explanation! I need to catch up on some other work, but I'm also interested in expanding the glossary further :-)

Hello from Stuttgart Germany, I would like to start with a question, hoping you will be willing to share. How to you get customers? - Channels - Cold calling - Etc. I am especially interested in this as I am a side-preneur. Thanking you in advance Andrea

Hey Facilitators👋 I wanted to share this exercise with you all. I love to kick my workshops off using a very simple exercise called 'Hopes and Fears'. This exercise is used in various contexts, such as team meetings, workshops, or group discussions. It's a great way for you as a Facilitator to set and get expectations from the participants right from the beginning! This is how you run it 👇 1️⃣ All you need is a whiteboard and you as the facilitator will divide the board in two categories; Hopes and Fears. 2️⃣ Give each participant a sharpie and two blocks of sticky notes. Make sure the two blocks of stickies are different colours e.g. blue for hopes, yellow for fears. 3️⃣ Encourage participants to write all their hopes or positive expectations about a particular project, idea, or situation. One idea per sticky! Stick them in the 'hopes' section of the board. 4️⃣ Encourage participants to share one or two 'hopes' each. 5️⃣ Repeat the same process for the Fears. This exercise helps team members express their feelings, align their perspectives, and build trust by understanding everyone's viewpoints before diving into solving the challenge at hand. Try it in your workshops! It's really nice. Let me know if you have any other nice exercises or activities that you like to use to kick off your workshops 😊

Hello everyone my name is Hamza RAHMOUNI I'm form Morocco in the North of Africa. I'm looking forward to discover this world of Facilitators. So can anyone suggest me some books to start with. Thanks in advance 🙏🫡

Hey there! My team and I just launched a 2-hour, step-by-step Design Thinking video + slide deck + resources, all for free! If you've ever wanted to run a Design Thinking session for your clients/team but didn't quite know how it should look, here you go! This video was super difficult and expensive to produce, so the only thing I ask is that if you find this useful, please share it, leave a comment (on youtube) or a like, or maybe... all of those things??? It helps us to know whether we should make more things like this or not. The slide deck + other resources: https://go.ajsmart.com/designthinking Enjoy the video! ----> https://youtu.be/J64VamE8LdE?si=IScLoXgZ--8CaFWv Cheers, Jonathan