Facilitation Stories

In today’s episode Pilar talks to facilitator Paul Kelly.  He’s going to be running two sessions at the IAFEW Re-Facilitation conference on 13th-14th May 2022 in Birmingham and online. His first session will be on “Collaborative Consensus”and the second will be a facilitated discussion around neurodiversity. (A note to readers on the website: we have some gremlins playing around with our text here. Apologies while we sort it out, and oh the irony given the topic of this episode...) Paul first talks about how he got into facilitation and then about his interest in Neurodiversity.  "Neurodivergent" is used to describe a variety of conditions and Paul emphasises that having conversations with people, allows sessions to be more inclusive. Paul shares some of the ways that people might engage differently from the starting point is that we all have different ways to interact with the world.  When facilitating, sometimes simple things can make a difference.  This can include thinking about how to reduce anxiety for