Facilitative leadership

The design for this session can be found here: https://www.fabriders.net/recipes-for-facilitative-leadership/

The Recipe for Facilitative Leadership

The Base:

• Have confidence in yourself
• Humility
• Commitment to the dignity of participants; empathy for people
• Actively including diverse voices
• Building safe spaces for difficult but esssential conversations
• Operating structures that allows openness to outcomes w/o pre-existing assumptions
• The facilitator should trust the process
• Listen and hold space for people to express themselves and be heard
• Trust people to know or work out the answers
• Meets you where you are at
• Intentionally subvert visible and invisible hierarchy
• Prioritise building empathy
• Willingness to take a risk
• Even the terms of discussion

The filler:

• Giving space for the collective power, wisdom & expertise of the group to emerge
• dialogue
• Gathering and implementing input throughout the process from the participants
• Every interaction matters
• Perserverance
• Checking in to enusre shared understaing or aligmment
• It is applicable to all scales
• is a healing experience
• Asking questions is an act of leadership
• Understanding the difference between a space that invites inclusion & accessibility versus on that feels transactional or like tokenisation
• Establish clear boundaries while leaving space for creativity
• Brings people to a shared vision/goal and redirects us when we get distracted
• Leadership takes courage, has risks and enables self-empowerment to make change
• Facilitating leadership reduces barriers and opens access
• Engagement -> Exploration -> Co-creation -> Leading with unique ideas
• Knocks down obstacles that will halt progress for participants
• Building empaty and trust between participants

The garnish/finishing

• Reflection

• The collective moving towards its goal

• Empower others to make decisions

• Commitment to action

• Inspire acts of leadership in all you do.

• Joy of collective visioning experience

• Turning vision into impact

• YUM - Taste delicious as a shared experience

• Learning the process through the process

Takeaways from the process of creating the recipe:

• FL is universal
• Let the group define what FL is
• Focus and care about the relationships
• Give Space for collectie power
• Be mindful of the delicat balance of holding space and taking it as a facilitator - stepping up to move up
• Your fucking with the patriarchy
• It's not filling the absence of leadership
• Trust & Trust the process
• Have self-awareness & understand your role and when to share your own experience
• You don't have the answer
• The collective answer is different to the individual answer