"Public engagement and deliberative dialogue is only as strong as its facilitators." NH Listens
GC offers support to help individuals and organizations
- Strengthen facilitation skills
- Develop dialogue & conversation skills
- Understand self and other
- Appreciate and utilize differences
- Build community
- Work together effectively
Facilitators develop their ability to, in any context
- Know and trust themselves, process and people
- Focus without control
- Reflect and clarify
- Summarize
- Ask probing or follow-up questions
- Shift focus
- Utilize silence
- Use non-verbal signals
- Embrace cultural differences
- Manage conflict
- Manage discouragement
- Hold relevant threads of current and previous conversations
- Prioritize – sort by category