57 BASIC FACILITATION: what group listening and sensing looks like

In this podcast episode maria goes through one of the most underrated skillsets for holding space, group workshops, and institutional dynamics: the grace of excellent facilitation. Maria walks you through an easy to follow framework of priming, generating, guiding, closing and enabling to make sure that folks feel seen and involved in the many instances that group dynamics, cooperation and education is sorely needed. If you ever feel overwhelmed with handling groups, or feel like you’re not deeply engaging your clients and/or groups then this is the podcast for you!Covers:Intro, general structure and flow for facilitation(1) activating, priming, prep - questions that presence the person into the class(2) generative, open and weaving questions/prompts(3) summarising, reflecting the emergent themes/ learnings, what was evoked?(4) seeding a theme/lesson/technique/ “lesson content” (what people typically consider as “content” of the session) Eg: BME model for a theater class, clarity and alignment of this choiceApply/do things immediately with them to ACTIVATE people’s Will/hara(5) reflecting/sharing and the vulnerabillity/politik of the shared space, emphasis in the process as already a learning mechanism, speaking to one person and the group at the same timeImage: spiralling permeable circles, focus but also what’s around it?(6) a good close (reviews and condensing, grounding questions), the irl gap of applicability? if i leave knowledge inert i end up distrusting learning…get disappointed faster, meet them where they’re atthe students are the material??? process as revelation—Metioned linksBDSM and consent podcast - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1FQOqpZRC15expX1FdRdNX?si=8866d36b225249cb----If you appreciate this kind of work send tips here: paypal ,You can support monthly here: patreon (this also has a library of game writing)linktr.ee/mariamison_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.