Facilitation Stories

Helene Jewell hosts this episode about the skill of online facilitation and the importance of Facilitation to make your celebrations go with (or without) a pop!   We also have two voices from our virtual coffee meet-ups: Gordon Mullan and Jane Mitchell share their thoughts about online facilitation following the IAF conference in October. And Helene introduces the new England and Wales IAF Board, and thanks the outgoing Chair and Treasurer! Two Twitter handles for the coffee inserts: @gordonmullan and @janemitchcomms Helene’s first guest for this episode is Claire Mays.  Claire has a background in facilitating health promotion and is has recently re-engaged with “the facilitator in her” during lockdown – lots of opportunity that wouldn’t have had if not for the pandemic! Since April – Claire has been part of an online facilitated programme that has engaged over 200 people as part of the Barts NHS Acute Trust shielding online programme. Barts Shielding Community was started to support those members of the Bart