Recent Facilitation Project
May 23rd, 2009
Yesterday I facilitated a meeting of students from Warren Wilson College’s Service Learning Office. Small groups of students researched a focus topic on a community level, meeting with city and grass roots leaders to get a holistic view of the issue. In many cases they were actively involved in school gardens and local food banks. Meeting people in the system and receiving supports was an important component of their experience. As the semester was wrapping up, the program leaders decided to use graphic facilitation to gather the learning and seek connections between the different but overlapping issues. About twenty students took part in the meeting.
Because the groups had such varying focuses, I opted to start the process at the concrete level: What did you do? What did you learn? I recorded this to the outer ring. From this we started to find themes that were recorded in the center. We created action steps for change that were recorded to a second sheet of paper.
Food security.