Facilitative leadership

• Self Reflection
  • On a piece of paper reflect (write, draw, doodle, etc.,) on a time that you experienced facilitative leadership
• Principles of facilitative leadership
  • Collective input to get to a collective outcome
  • Creating space for creative freedom
  • Listening
  • Take responsibility
    • For themselves and the space,
    • know their power and understand their power
  • Doesn’t have to be the leader (usually isn’t)
  • Shared knowledge
  • Open
  • Connected to our experiences, personal
  • Nonverbal cues
  • Use Art
  • Engagement not lecturing
  • Use simple open ended questions
  • Allow people to take ownership since it’s a collect outcome
• Group Discussion
  • There will be people who take too much space and folx who aren’t taking space
  • How to be a role model and creating space for those who are not talking.
  • Being Vulnerable and showing that you are still learning (transparency)
    • How to navigate vulnerability? How to create that space where folx want to share
      • Modeling it. Being vulnerable so they feel comfortable sharing as well
      • Community agreements
  • Facilitated Leadership
    • Guiding folx into leadership vs facilitating conversations
  • Creating space where people can share materials and resources
  • Where does manage up
    • You yourself can work from a place of power to
  • Challenge tradition dynamics without the fear of losing our jobs
    • Cultures and values of our orgs
  • So many barriers in place to where we don’t feel like we have any power
    • Learning how to be a facilitative leader and have a lot of power in bureaucratic places
    • Challenge traditional power dynamics ( ageism, sexism,)
  • Ex. Of Facilitative Leadership
    • Crafting agenda’s and getting input from multiple people
    • Young woman taking notes, YOU can frame and highlight the important information and help shape the dialogue
  • How to help others have these Facilitative principles so they can share them
  • Why do we need this type of leadership versus other types of leadership?
  • How do we do facilitative leadership with intergenerational community members
    • Whoever is in the space creates the space
    • Team building & pop ed
    • Co – Facilitating (Youth & adult )
  • Dark side of facilitation
    • Recognizing your power as a facilitator
    • Watching out for you own biases and that it is not being projected
      • Be transparent and acknowledge them
• Further discussion on following topics
  • Why facilitative leadership is even needed?
  • How to help people step in and share learning space
  • How do I get there (there as in good facilitation skills)?
  • How to navigate through vulnerability?
  • Specific techniques managing group dynamics
  • Misty: How do we maintain a network of people talking and sharing Facilitative leadership
    • How would that network look like across the state
  • Misty: How can you apply these principles to your next facilitating workshop