Facilitating Breakthrough

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How Do We Decide Who Does What? Directing and Accompanying

Transformative facilitation helps people collaborate without forcing or being forced, so their actions are both voluntary and coordinated. The fourth question that they need to work with is: How do we decide who does what?

In vertical facilitation, the participants say, “Our leaders decide,” and these leaders assign and coordinate the actions of the collaborators. The facilitator supports the leaders in doing this. The upside of this approach is that it provides authorization for and alignment of the actions. The downside of overemphasizing this approach, without making room for self-motivated ...