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Facilitating Breakthrough
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Facilitating Breakthrough

by Adam Kahane
August 2021
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 34m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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How Do We See Our Situation? Advocating and Inquiring

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In transformative facilitation, a facilitator helps a group collaborate to transform their problematic situation. In doing so, the first basic question they need to work with, and return to over and over, is: How do we understand what is happening in our situation?

In vertical facilitation, participants answer questions about their situation by confidently advocating: “We have the right answer.” The facilitator gives exactly this same answer to questions about the process. Disagreements about these answers are settled either through debate among the proponents of different answers (with ...

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ISBN: 9781523092062