The Skilled Facilitator, 3rd Edition

Chapter FourFacilitating with the Mutual Learning Approach

In the previous chapter, I described how the unilateral control approach undermines your ability to help groups. In this chapter, I describe an alternative—the mutual learning approach. Everything in the Skilled Facilitator approach is based on the mutual learning approach. In your facilitative role using the Skilled Facilitator approach, your greatest asset—and your greatest challenge—is to operate from the mutual learning mindset and approach.

In this chapter, we're focusing on how you can use the mutual learning approach to be more effective, not about how the group itself can use ...