Essential Facilitation Case Stories
Case stories mentioned in April 2006 Journal of Extension (JOE) article illustrating a wide range of scenarios where EF strategies make a difference in meeting effectiveness and how they benefit community efforts. Learn how the Interaction Associates model of meeting facilitation is rapidly becoming the method of choice for more productive and satisfying meetings with University of California Cooperative Extension staff. Interviews and case stories were done by UC-ANR members Pat Day, Linda Marie Manton, Carole Paterson and Ellie Rilla.
Essential Facilitation Training Workshops
UC-ANR periodically sponsors 3 or 4-day training sessions for ANR members and official volunteers in the Interaction Associates, Inc. Essential Facilitation mindset and methods.
December 2003 Essential Facilitation Workshop
Format Templates
The following template groups contain digital images of the basic process formats.
Graphic Facilitation Workshop
Eighteen ANR members participated in an intensive Graphic Facilitation Techniques workshop conducted by Art-4-Change consultants, Christine Valenza and Helen Spector. Workshop participants learned about the evolution and role of graphic recording for effectively representing group process and sharing information between groups. Participants practiced using various media and techniques to increase undertstanding, work with metaphors and incorporate pictorial/symbolic/graphic vocabulary in facilitation of group work. Digital images from this workshop are available in the Documents section of this web site.
August 15th Workshop
Process Formats
The basic templates for graphic recording are linked below. They were developed by David Sibbett of The Grove Consultants over a period of many years. Each of these formats is connected to a process as well as ways of connecting information or reinforcing the task at hand.
Use of Graphic Templates in Workshops and Meetings
Learn how Graphic Templates have improved participants' focus and quality of involvement in extension education workshops and meetings.