Be a Multi-Dimensional Facilitator

From Steve Davis' FacilitationU.com
(photo: FotoRita)

Artful facilitation requires awareness and action at all levels: physical, thinking, emotional, intuitive, energy, spiritual and synergistic.

It is important to know that what goes on in a group happens below the thinking level and below participants conscious awareness. It is the facilitator's job to bring these deeper levels into participants awareness so that they may be wholly effective.

Given that most innovative, creative, inventive, and visionary developments are born at these deeper levels, progressive teams will benefit by developing awareness of them.  In the book, Art Of Facilitation,the authors Dale Hunter, Anne Bailey, Bill Taylor do an excellent job of describing the characteristics and actions an effective facilitator must attend to each of the following levels of being:

• Physical Level
• Thinking Level
• Emotional Level
• Intuitive Level
• Energy Level
• Spiritual or Ritual Level
• Synergistic Level