Facilitation Stories

Megan Evans is a consultant, facilitator and trainer and host of the IAF meet ups in Wales. Megan describes how she first got into facilitation quite a few years ago, experiencing it as a participant and then being “roped in”. She was inspired by being asked what she and other people thought, and not just being told. Fascinated by the skills and style and started to get more and more involved in doing it herself. She worked for Participation Cymru – the aim of which was to spread participative and facilitative techniques across Wales throughout different organisations. Megan uses a lot of facilitative methods to ensure everyone’s voices can be heard. She talks about it being stressful “in a good way” and what she loves about facilitation, particularly when the group is engaged and don’t notice the facilitator anymore. She describes the best learning as coming from others and how important it is to watch others facilitate. She also goes on training, reads books and does a lot of learning by doing. She also hos