Talk:Complex facilitation

Discussion of Patterns and Assumptions

What are the patterns and assumptions that we hold about the role of facilitation that is challenged when using complex methods, for example…

found this chunk confusing, Dave. Is it:

* : the assumption that's challenged

** : the reality?

That's hard to grok atm.

I've just moved this to the Talk Page, it's not my comment MikeHaber (talk) 22:51, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

have made a stab but it needs more work - --GregBro (talk) 14:35, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Add some guidance on group size which is completely missing but highly relevant - --GregBro (talk) 14:30, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Setting alliance

Should we add something about getting the participants to set their alliance at the start of the session. In systemic coaching (which is probably halfway between standard and complex facilitation we tend to have a form of behavioural alliance to allow some safety for all to engage. In complex facilitation, I understand that we set a Learning Alliance which focuses on the enabling constraints - what it is that you'll put in place to govern how this group/team will learn together? - user Pguenet?

Removed this text from page for now as no context provided - --Gregb^talk 09:39, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

NOT SURE ABOUT THESE WHICH WERE IN THE COURSE

• breaking patterns of expectation
• themes emerge from the content

Pronouns

I think that it is confusing to use the pronoun "we" on the wiki. Who would it refer to? Cognitive Edge, The Cynefin Centre, the Cynefin.io editors, both editors and readers, ...? I have replaced a few occurrences with "facilitators" when it seemed obvious to me that that was the class being referred to. The remaining uses of "we" are unclear to me.

To a lesser degree, I think that the use of "you" and the imperative can be confusing. If it consistently refers to the reader who plans to take on the role of facilitator, then I think it should be fine in this article and avoids unwieldy repetitions of the term "the facilitator" or using the third person. William Bartlett (talk) 15:27, 29 May 2021 (UTC)