by TopSPF | Jan 29, 2026 | Facilitation Tips
Some readers will be doing this work inside organizations that have been shaken by budget decisions or policy changes that landed hard and fast. Facilitation Tip #6 When Words Won’t Do In the early development of what later became Focused Conversation, Joseph...
by TopSPF | Jan 29, 2026 | Facilitation Tips
A note on the moment: Facilitators are often expected—by others and by ourselves—to remain endlessly calm, clear, and regulated, even as the broader conditions around us feel unstable or strained. Facilitator Tip #5 You Are Not Superhuman Facilitators are often...
by TopSPF | Jan 29, 2026 | SPF Blog
Not Nothing: Facilitation, Neutrality, and the Responsibility to Protect Facilitators are often reminded that we cannot fix what happens outside the room. That is true. We cannot repair broken systems, undo harm, or resolve the forces shaping people’s lives beyond the...
by TopSPF | Jan 3, 2026 | SPF Blog
The turning of the year doesn’t repair what is broken.The same forces remain in motion. The same fractures shape our conversations, our institutions, and the rooms we walk into as facilitators. This is a hard time. Many groups arrive carrying fear, fatigue, anger, and...
by TopSPF | Jan 3, 2026 | Facilitation Tips
Facilitator Tip #4Three Ways to Stay Grounded in the Room (Even When the Room Isn’t a Room) 1. Begin With Something Everyone Can See Before discussion, planning, or debate, start with a shared point of reference: a brief story from direct experience a single image or...
