Session materials from “Cultivating Connection: Principles to support Facilitation” presented by Adrian Roman at NASCO Institute 2024. Facilitation is an important skill in any cooperative. The practical skills are very important, as are the intuitive elements - like when someone may not have felt heard, or when things need to shift direction, how to adapt or allowing emergence. In this session we will experience a Listening Circle. A Listening Circle is an intentional space where we gather to build relation, connection, trust and practice being seen, heard, seeing and hearing. An agenda-less space. Yes, we will have prompts to guide our space, but there is no aim aside from being present with each other and seeing what emerges. We will also explore how experiencing and conducting spaces like this can inform and fortify our facilitation of more technical gatherings, like meetings.
