Facilitation by Mr. Seki

from Diary 2023-06-07

Seki-san’s (halsk) facilitation.

• Parallelism of individuals, not management of multiple people Since there were other people besides me who felt the “goodness” of Mr. Seki’s facilitation, I’ll take this opportunity to verbalize it, too.

• I was impressed that he repeatedly told the audience several times early on that “this is not the place to build consensus.”

• A timer was used to create time to write on a sticky note, and the parallel-threaded output was written, rather than the single-threaded output of audio.

• Then the “written stickies” were looked at in a single threaded order, creating a sense that all opinions had been “seen”.

  • A few verbal discussions came up on the spot, but because of the stickies, it didn’t become an aerial battle, it became connected to the ground with the stickies.
  • It didn’t take endless hours of discussion.

• It expands further when connections between ideas are shown.

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