Welcome to the Facilitate It blog! (January 2026) If you’re interested in facilitation , process design, capacity building and learning , you’re in the right place.  Our passion is exploring and sharing insights, resources and support in these areas! Why are some meetings, work events and processes so engaging and successful, and some are so tedious and disappointing? Different people have different answers to that question, unique to each experience. WHAT WORKS? In peo

Developed over four decades, it ensures purposeful meetings and events, and supports smooth collaboration for sustainable results.   It replaces simpler, linear checklists with a dynamic, organic model designed for engagement, co-facilitation and impact.  Discover how to design and facilitate processes that are as naturally elegant and effective as a nautilus shell.  

Photo by Randy Fath on UNSPLASH Introduction   How do you facilitate collaboration among groups with a history of competition and siloed work, faced with a change challenge?   A set of lessons from experience are: get people to work together, rather than talk at each other – minimize passive listening use engaging methods and techniques in a designed logical series of incremental steps focus on results of collective benefit – iteratively review progress towards those results.

Introduction We’ve all been in that meeting:  hours spent, tangents taken, silent dissenters, no decisions made, and a sinking feeling of time wasted.    The problem isn’t usually a lack of ideas, commitment or good intentions.  What’s missing is disciplined facilitation.    What can happen without discipline facilitation (AI Image Generator) Looking for the heart of facilitation So, what is facilitation?  Is a facilitator a meeting manager? A mediator? A trainer? The role is