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Becoming a Facilitator: How We Came to Facilitation and the IAF

Becoming A Facilitator: How We Came to Facilitation and the IAF Gillian Martin Mehers: Originally I was a trainer. Brenda Tan: I was a school teacher. Carol Sherriff: I didn't actually know I'd become a facilitator at first. Trevor Durnford: Originally I was an engineer. I worked in IT. Jeffer London: I worked in large organizations, very big systems and the turning point was a situation of frustration, when you get large groups of people, multi-million Euro projects that don't work and when you realize they don't work simply because there was no dialogue and no real conversation. Trevor: I was asked by my CEO at the time - would I be interested in taking on a new role to be a coordinator of a big change process? And I would need to learn how to facilitate. I had no idea what facilitation was. So I got sent on a 5-day course and it just completely opened my eyes to a new world. Up until that point, I was all about bits and bytes and technical things and this was about people. Carol: That's a wonderful question. Ann Epps: Every time [Laughs] Mirjami Sipponen-Damonte: When the group is alive, when they are inspired and energized. When they get inside, when they find the answers by themselves. Carol: There's a point, I think, in almost any... gig, I'm going to call them; where as a facilitator you don't know what to do. The group has gone beyond your expectations. You didn't expect something to happen - and that is the most terrifying point of any event at all, but then... you work with the group to overcome that and there's a flow to that; that is absolutely wonderful. Wiebke Herding: I oftentimes work with groups that have struggled with particular questions for a long, long time and they feel stuck; and then, by coming in as an external facilitator, I oftentimes help them to slow down and really listen to themselves. One thing is that as a facilitator it can be a very lonely job. You're working with groups, but you're the only one kind of really holding the process. So it's really, really powerful to have the exchange about common approaches and common challenges we have; but what I also really appreciate is that as facilitators we all have really different tools and different approaches of how we work with groups and how we work with different challenges. Meryem Le Saget: Here we share with many, many different cultures. They have new ideas, they have new of doing things and just by hosting this event; I think it's just magical. Gillian: It's a wonderful community. It's a very vibrant community. I always learn a lot. I also enjoy sharing my learning. Sean Blair: Coming to places like this definitely gives birth to new projects, new collaborations and new friendships. People that I have met at other iAf conferences, I have worked with. We have become partners and friends. www.iaf-world.org/ This video was filmed by Clara Vorfeld and produced by Hartley & Soul and Jeffer London.