What are the styles of Facilitation?

•       Directive: Provide information and instruction to develop a work plan.

•       Exploratory: Ask question encourage people to voice their experience and ideas.

•       Delegating: assigning tasks, roles functions to individuals.

•       Participative: taking part in discussion sharing personal experiences.

•       Sharing: encouraging the sharing of past and present feelings.

•       Interpretive: putting other words on a contribution or helping someone to find the words to express.

•       Evaluative: assessing what someone says providing a statement of value in relation to behavior.

this depends n every facilitator objectives. The style should be assessed based on the facilitator capacity and the need behind facilitation.

Normally i do prefer a lighter and gradual mode of communication to facilitate the discussion.

The main facilitation styles are:

1. Directive: When the facilitator is providing instruction and information.
2. Exploratory: When the facilitator is asking questions to explore experience and ideas.
3. Delegating: When the facilitator is assigning tasks, roles, functions to group members.
4. Participative: When the facilitator is participating in and guiding group discussion, sharing experiences with the group and encouraging group members to do likewise. This seems to be a rather simplistic, activity-based, approach to facilitation styles. Based on the descriptions, it seems possible for the facilitator to use all four styles in the course of a single meeting or event.

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