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The
Facilitator
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There is not only one correct way to do VIPP, there are always several
possibilities which depend on the skills and knowledge of the facilitator.
The art of facilitation consists of a combination of imagination, intuition,
aesthetics and a feeling for the potential of a group of people. There is no
fixed way to learn this except by doing and steadily improving.
Each event should be treated as unique and requires preparation. The
facilitator must be consciously involved in the topic and the process of
each group. Each event is a new challenge for designing a peoplecentered
process. It is not like repeating a speech for a new audience.
There is a danger that popular facilitators/trainers will become
overloaded with events and will, because of time pressure, develop a
routine, performing instead of facilitating. Therefore, if you are
facilitator or if you contract a team of facilitators, you should begin
with detailed preparation. Facilitation is a very hard but rewarding
job. A participant may lose concentration and day dream in some
moment of an event while the facilitator has to follow each idea,
reaction and intervention of the participants, never resting. This is
exhausting and requires time to re-establish energy for the next session
or for new events.
The rewards of good facilitation become self-evident: a good group
feeling and affection between participants and facilitators; quality in
results of the event; confirmation that the event has begun a productive
group process which may go on in future. The reward may also be the
feeling that there is now a better understanding and sympathy between
people who have come together for a common purpose, people who
work together on a daily basis, alliances who meet only occasionally,
or people of different cultures who have come together temporarily
and may never meet again.
THE USES OF VIPP