Chapter ThreeHow You Think Is How You FacilitateHow Unilateral Control Undermines Your Ability to Help Groups
This chapter and the next one are about the most fundamental part of your facilitative role your mindset. I contrast two mindsets and the approaches they create—unilateral control and mutual learning. In short, the unilateral control mindset undermines your effectiveness and the mutual learning mindset increases it.
In this chapter, I focus on unilateral control. I describe the values and assumptions that constitute the unilateral control mindset, the behaviors that inevitably flow from them, and the poor results you get. Altogether, ...
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