Don’t tell me how it’s going to go

One of the things that many facilitators and hosts worry about with complex facilitation practices is the outcomes and the quality of the experience. It is the hardest thing to let go of and probably the last piece of “performative facilitation” that deeply experienced facilitators are able to release.

But that desire and drive for a particular emotional outcome can be as damaging to a meeting as a drive toward a particular material outcome.

Don’t tell people what they will experience. Don’t pre-determine their outcomes or their emotional journey on the day. Let go of that control and enable the environment.