From the Front of the Room

Notes on Facilitation for Experienced Practitioners

Revised Edition 2023

A book by Dan Newman

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From the Front of the Room

Notes on Facilitation for Experienced Practitioners

Revised Edition 2023

A book by Dan Newman

Buy the book

or read first:
Preface Table of contents

Facilitating workshops requires mastering several activities:

Convening

Getting the right people

Content

Understanding the questions that need to be asked and the inputs needed to help answer them

Design

Building an effective worskshop agenda

Ecosystem Management

Keeping all the workshop elements moving seamlessly

Facilitation

Working from the front of the room to lead group work and get the best out of participants

This book is about this last element: Front-of-room facilitation.

But this isn't a book for beginners. This book is intended for experienced facilitators - those who know how to design an outstanding workshop and know how, alone or as part of a team, to deliver one. In a sense, this book will only be of value to you if, deep down, you already know everything that is written here.

Dan Newman

I've been facilitating large workshops for nearly thirty years, initially as a management consultant pushed into facilitating small workshops and, for the past 17 years, as a full-time facilitator, helping large heterogeneous groups build solutions and map a way forward.

My practice is based about one-third in Italy and the rest spread around Europe and the world. Nearly half of my work is with non-profits, NGOs and the UN. A bit more than half is with largish companies and government departments.

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