What skills, knowledge, and behaviours must facilitators have in order to be successful facilitating in a wide variety of environments? To what extent do these vary, if at all, when working online rather than face-to-face? What can we do, individually and together as peers, to develop our own facilitation competence? For further details including the session recording, see https://martingilbraith.com/free-facilitation-webinars/

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Session aims – 60 minutes
1. To connect, share and learn with
others sharing your interest in the topic
2. To experience ICA’s ToP Focused
Conversation method
3. To share sources of further
information and support
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What skills, knowledge, and behaviours
must facilitators have, to be successful
facilitating in a wide variety of environments?
https://www.iaf-world.org/site/professional/core-competencies
Breakouts
1 & 7
1. Identify any key words or phrases in the text - use annotate tool
2. Add examples of how have you used or seen this competency in
practice – use yellow post-its for online, red post-its for face-to-face
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What skills, knowledge, and behaviours
must facilitators have, to be successful
facilitating in a wide variety of environments?
1. Identify any key words or phrases in the text - use annotate tool
2. Add examples of how have you used or seen this competency in
practice – use yellow post-its for online, red post-its for face-to-face
https://www.iaf-world.org/site/professional/core-competencies
Breakouts
2 & 8

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What skills, knowledge, and behaviours
must facilitators have, to be successful
facilitating in a wide variety of environments?
1. Identify any key words or phrases in the text - use annotate tool
2. Add examples of how have you used or seen this competency in
practice – use yellow post-its for online, red post-its for face-to-face
https://www.iaf-world.org/site/professional/core-competencies
Breakouts
3 & 9

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What skills, knowledge, and behaviours
must facilitators have, to be successful
facilitating in a wide variety of environments?
1. Identify any key words or phrases in the text - use annotate tool
2. Add examples of how have you used or seen this competency in
practice – use yellow post-its for online, red post-its for face-to-face
https://www.iaf-world.org/site/professional/core-competencies
Breakouts
4 & 10

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What skills, knowledge, and behaviours
must facilitators have, to be successful
facilitating in a wide variety of environments?
1. Identify any key words or phrases in the text - use annotate tool
2. Add examples of how have you used or seen this competency in
practice – use yellow post-its for online, red post-its for face-to-face
https://www.iaf-world.org/site/professional/core-competencies
Breakouts
5 & 11

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What skills, knowledge, and behaviours
must facilitators have, to be successful
facilitating in a wide variety of environments?
1. Identify any key words or phrases in the text - use annotate tool
2. Add examples of how have you used or seen this competency in
practice – use yellow post-its for online, red post-its for face-to-face
https://www.iaf-world.org/site/professional/core-competencies
Breakout
6 & 12

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What can we do…
to develop our own facilitation competence?
• Exercise continuous contracting
• Connecting and sharing
• Reading more
• Sharing and collaborate with other people in the
same field, as we did today :)
• Sharing practices/ examples around designing
remote sessions
• Connecting better in on-line
• Sharing and asking for perspectives from others
facilitators
• Access resources from IAF
• For me is to create interactive Jamboard like
the one you used in this session. At the
beginning I thought it is ppt :)
• Trying to watch or participate to real meetings ,
facilitated by experienced facilitators
• Take the competencies in the consideration
when I am going to plan a facilitated session
• Explore more online tools to replace F2F types
of interaction
• Connect with the audience while struggling to
use the online methods
• Get better at facilitating shorter sessions (e.g.
max 30 min sessions)
• I would learn from my younger colleagues how
to act online, as I haven't had the chance yet
• To choose max 3 clear objectives/session and
keep the time.
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ToP Focused Conversation method
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ToP Focused Conversation method

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Facilitation competencies
⚫ What skills, knowledge, and behaviours must
facilitators have…? Identify key words or phrases
⚫ Add examples of how have you used or seen this
competency in practice
⚫ To what extent do these competencies vary,
if at all, when working online rather than face-to-
face?
⚫ What can we do, individually and together as
peers, to develop our own facilitation competence?
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ToP Focused Conversation method
⚫ JamBoard
& voice
⚫ JamBoard
& voice
⚫ Voice
⚫ Chat &
voice

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ToP values
➢ Inclusive Participation
➢ Teamwork &
Collaboration
➢ Individual & Group
Creativity
➢ Ownership & Action
➢ Reflection & Learning
ToP methods
1. Focused Conversation
2. Consensus Workshop
3. Action Planning
4. Participatory Strategic
Planning
5. Historical Scan
6. …
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ICA’s Technology of Participation

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The Art of Focused Conversation
⚫ ToP facilitation training
⚫ ICA & ToP Worldwide
⚫ IAF Worldwide
ToP training & resources

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