Facilitation is the key to thought leadership, innovative ideas and premium performance. When a community of people engage bravely and authentically the potential for solutions and progress is magnified. Facilitation allows that brave and authentic engagement to take place.

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Facilitation, when done well, is often not easily recognizable. Done well, facilitation simply results in tangible outcomes, progress, a clear and agreed way forward, a set of information, engaged participation and ownership. Facilitation done badly, or not invested in at all, is often very noticeable. Poor, or no, facilitation may result in dead-end meetings with no outcomes, a lack of traction, attendees feeling unheard and a lack of group cohesion.

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Key to successful facilitation is the awareness from the facilitator that they themselves are not the solution. The goal is to harness the knowledge in the room and encourage the engagement and sharing of thought. 

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Facilitation itself is a skill that can be taught. When those skills are overlaid with experience the facilitation reaches another level. Overlaid again with a trauma informed approach the consciousness of engagement brings a new service again. These three overlaid tools, combined with a large and varied agricultural network, is what AgriThrive brings to their clients.

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When is Facilitation Useful?

Facilitation is useful any time there is a group of people that seek to work together to achieve an outcome.

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Examples where facilitation might be useful include:

• ​Where a group of people, often new to each other, are meeting to discuss a new opportunity for working together towards an outcome.

• Where technical information needs to be communicated, more so when we want an opportunity for attendees to respond.

• When we feel that a conversation will require the room to be robust and thought-provoking and useful.

• When we need a "set" of something, for example values, goals, outcomes.

• When we need to sift through a lot of data/knowledge to create a usable action plan.

• When the discussion might be taking place online through a webinar or zoom format and we would like to maintain engagement through-out.

• When the discussions are tricky topics likely to bring about a passionate or emotional response.

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