Facilitation Types
Facilitators we love
We’ve known many good facilitators. Each is unique and all are similar. Some are classic organizers. Others are classic facilitators. Some do leadership development. Others are enterprise facilitators. Many are just good wives and mothers. Below you can access profiles of some of the most successful facilitators we’ve known and loved.
Charlotte Schexnayder:
stimulates civic leadership
Vaughn Grisham:
leadership development as facilitation
Richard McCarthy:
organizer to social entrepreneur
Wayne Mattingly:
you have to be as committed as the growers
Can you learn to be a facilitator?
Bill Green:
you can’t textbook this stuff
Joe Bryant:
preacher, farmer, facilitator
Paul Teague:
marketing agent as facilitator
What skills do you need?
Van Ayers:
a hybrid betweenan enterprise facilitator and a classic organizer
Harold Eli:
community comes first
Larry Miller:
organizing can’t be a government program
Deborah Webb:
rural organizing is foundation
What wonders can you achieve?
Harvey Willliams:
synergy in organizing
Lois McMurchy:
employers need work ethic and math
George Walker:
good businesses begin with education
Other facilitators who work mainly outside our time and space,
but have helped a lot of groups:
Robert Greenleaf:
servant leadership
Jeff Goebel:
consensus for sustainability
[...] Successful agent-facilitators largely agree on a broad set of skills most needed to help rural agents become adept at stimulating community enterprise (summarized, e.g., at http://deltanetwork.org/news/learn-to-facilitate/facilitation-types/). [...]