Original Intent of The Journey of Facilitation

Posted on January 3, 2015 by jofacilitator

The field of Process Facilitation has only been named as a professional field over the last 20 years.  The professional association, the International Association of Facilitators, began in 1994. But the art of guiding groups in meetings to engage people and to accomplish group tasks has been around for a much longer time.  I have been fortunate to be a part of this field for more than 40 years.  These are my occasional musings on the development of the art and the trend toward meaningful participation in decision-making from my personal experience.

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Broadened Intent for this Blog — more like “Memoirs and Travel Writing”

Posted on January 3, 2015 by jofacilitator

The intent of this blog has changed somewhat since I set it up, and since I haven’t posted yet (!!), I am going to post with the following intent:  these stories are stories of my life as a facilitator, including participatory community development, teaching and working with schools, and any other life stories that come to me.  They will be posted as they come to me, with time markers where relevant, so that at some future time they could be assembled in some kind of order.

Wayne’s unexpected death last January made me realize that intellectual knowledge, or stories, that are held only in the head of a person can suddenly disappear and be unavailable.  I don’t know if my stories will be useful or not, but at least they will be accessible.

I was inspired by a writing course I took with Ann Ireland on “Memoirs and Travel Writing”, and the first posts are the unedited submissions I made for that course.

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