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Here are the 3 P’s of facilitation:
1. Pace. As a facilitator you are responsible and must be aware of the pace of your workshop. If you focus exclusively on just delivering information and data to your participants,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], chances are that by the end of your 3,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 4 or 6 hour workshop you will only be partially through the content. So the pacing of a workshop is a critical element for the facilitator.
2. Process. It’s all about process. It’s about the having the ability to take content and transfer it over so that the participants can own it. Some useful questions to
ask when you are designing a workshop are: What activities will you use? How will you debrief those activities? How will you set it up so that people will feel successful? How will you create a positive environment so that people will be eager to open up? How will you get people to commit to applying what
they have learned back in their real lives? All of these issues point to the process of learning,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and they are a critical piece to designing a really effective workshop.
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It might be helpful to look at pacing like an accordion; some things will need to be expanded while other things will need to be contracted in order to stay within the time constraints of your workshop. One of the worse things that can happen from a participant’s perspective is for them to get to the end of the workshop and realize they didn’t get through everything you promised in your outline or agenda. The facilitator must pace the process to ensure they deliver all the material.