Mid-Year Check-In (Facilitation Friday #78)
A few questions for contemplation about the work of facilitation.
Perhaps like me, you pause mid-year to reflect on your work, what you’re learning from it, and how you may wish to recalibrate your efforts for the future.
As is my wont, I’ve been engaged in conversations of this ilk the past two weeks, both with an intimate group of trusted colleagues, as well as internal dialogue with myself.
The following questions were the catalysts used for reflection and contemplation. I offer them for your own similar use.
How do we create community with one another in an era when trust in institutions is declining and misinformation (both accidental and intentional) is rampant?
What level-setting will be required if individuals increasingly start from a place of skepticism and/or mistrust when joining others for discussions and decision-making?
How do relationships among individuals and organizations change when “trust, but verify” is no longer a “nice to do” but an “always need to do”?
What psychological effects might result from increasingly experiencing a state of uncertainty, ambiguity, and declining trust?
What aspects of facilitation are appropriate to “cognitively offload” to artificial intelligence in order to better leverage human intelligence?
How is AI changing (might AI change) how participants prepare for and/or participate in meetings?
Reflecting on the meetings and workshops I’ve facilitated this year, what observations about participants most stand out? What inferences can I draw from them?
Given what I am noticing about participants, as well as the world around us, what might my facilitation need to help make easier more often in the future?
And in honor of the Independence Day holiday:
How might my facilitation enable greater interdependence among participants and less dependence on me?
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Thanks for sharing these Jeff. Very thought provoking.