Are you hosting an internal retreat, meeting or gathering and facilitating it yourself? Do you feel that you are 90% there but would like a bit of extra support or access to some new or different activities to incorporate? Do you know what you want the content of the meeting to be but are not quite sure how to structure the time? Do you feel like you are missing a thought partner to help with the design because everyone else is so busy?
I am creating a new ‘facilitation support’. I work with internal facilitators (whether facilitating by choice or by necessity!) to help them design and deliver the meetings and gatherings their organization needs.
I hope that I won’t stop facilitating myself any time soon but I have realized that there are several strengths in this as an alternative option:
- Some meetings benefit from an internal facilitator who really knows the organizational dynamics.
- Some organizations can’t afford the cost of a facilitator.
- It is an opportunity for leaders to build and broaden their own facilitation skills.
I have partnered several times this year with this internal/external approach and found it really satisfying, both for me as it allows me to work with more organizations than I can directly facilitate for, and for the leaders engaged with facilitation as it creates a cadence and support in the build up to these gatherings which are often high stakes and with high expectations.
If this is something that might be of interest to you OR if you have had had a successful experience with this yourself, please reach out. I’d love to chat!
