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Introduction:
Sallyann Roth, co-founder of the Public
Conversations Project, suggests that an effective facilitator will become
almost invisible. The dialogue group should feel that it's doing its own work.
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Invisibility
Sallyann Roth
Family Therapist, Trainer, and Co-Founder of the Public Conversations Project,
in Watertown, Massachusetts
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In our work we hope that the facilitator becomes invisible and not so focused on. We feel that the more the group gets to feel it's doing its own work, the more powerful it will be, so that's another parallel we want to bring into the training. This means when we collect people's questions we don't expect to answer them. We're not going to change what we do. People will have a different filter to experience whatever happens in the room then they usually have.
They'll be filtering it through. "This is what's important to me and this is what
I mean by a coach, a coach says to you, gosh you're dragging your right leg, get
them even. If the questions are a coach, and your question is how can I bring
some of these ideas to my context, in a medical context, for example, and that's
your question, then you'll be thinking about that no matter what we're doing.
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