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How Do We Understand Our Role? Standing Outside and Inside
Transformative facilitation is a process in which participants and facilitators work together to transform a problematic situation. The fifth and most fundamental question they need to work with is: How do we understand our roles and responsibilities?
In vertical facilitation, participants see the situation they are facing as problematic, and they are collaborating in order to address it. They approach the situation as if they were outside (apart from) it, saying “We must fix it.” Facilitators also position themselves outside: they see their role as helping the participants change ...
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