Facilitation:Session Design Guidelines

Aspiration agendas are designed as a diverse set of participant-driven discussions. Sessions are dialog- and outcome-oriented rather than presentation or lecture format.

Goals in the working sessions are primarily around collaborative knowledge sharing, co-creation and relationship-building, and less about pure information delivery. A primary objective is to have all participants in a group contribute and participate actively, rather than having one or a few participants push out a lot of information.

Overall, sessions are intended to be highly interactive. Facilitators' primary goal is to enable peer learning, address questions, and support peer sharing. Bring your positive energy, collaborative instincts and stay focused on your goal!

Designing and Facilitating your Session

The following are suggestions and guidelines; facilitators should design the session they think will be best.

There is a lot covered below; pick and choose what seems relevant and useful, no need to try and incorporate all of these considerations into one session.

Session Design

Your role as a facilitator is to *enable peer sharing of knowledge*. It is *not* to "deliver" a session or present a lot of content in any form. AND…