Facilitator Meg Bolger Says We Can All Hone This Skill.

Facilitator Meg Bolger has been training professional facilitators for the past 10 years, focusing on social justice and helping them improve. She believes that anyone who leads a meeting, teaches a class, or supervises people is a facilitator and can hone their skills to deepen engagement within the group. Bolger emphasizes the importance of making a connection with someone who makes a problematic statement, rather than immediately info dumping or dismissing them. She suggests having a generous mindset and validating their emotional reality, even if you disagree with their words. Bolger also highlights the significance of facilitation as a skill set that can be built, regardless of one's personality type. [Extracted from the article]