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If you're like most group facilitators, you probably expect that the best time to debrief your group's experience is at the end, right? Not always...
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Click play and watch this week’s Facilitator Tips episode, the third of four tutorials focused on the best time to debrief your group's experience.
This is just one of many dozens of leadership tips you can use to improve the participation, relationships and overall performance of your students, staff and team.
This Facilitator Tips video tutorial is presented by Mark Collard, one of the world's most experienced & respected experiential trainers in the world. As a Master of Group Games & Activities, Mark can teach you how to help your team engage, interact & connect with one another more powerfully.
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Hi there folks and welcome to the Facilitator Tips video series. My name is Mark Collard, I work as an experiential trainer and author, and today we want to focus on Episode 46, the third in our series of four episodes around one topic, processing, debriefing, or reflection.
We’ve looked at why. We also looked at the what. And today we’re going to look at when. When do you debrief?
Now just by virtue of the definition of debrief, it suggests and it typically is at the end of an experience. That just makes sense, doesn’t it, that you want to be able to invite a group to have gone through an experience and then reflect back on it. So the typical response to this question is end. But I want to broaden your horizons here, because you also want to understand when is the end, like is it ten minutes from now, next week, is it next year. There can be lots of reasons why you choose to delay the reflection. So again you want to look back at the “what” topic in terms of significance and appropriateness as to exactly when at the end of the experience would you choose to process.
It can also be at the beginning which is one reason I choose to use the word “process” or “reflection” more often than “debrief”. Debrief by definition means at the end, but to reflect at the beginning can be a really powerful tool, to imagine your group thinking about what they’re about to move into, and then imagine if they could reflect on what’s about to happen, can they actually think about how that might change their actions, their thoughts, and their behaviours. So inviting them to reflect at the beginning is a really powerful tool, often referred to as frontloading.
And then of course there’s the middle. So you’ve got it at the end, you’ve got it at the beginning, and there are sometimes reasons to process in the middle. That is you might just simply ask your group to hey stop there, everyone there, stop, and sometimes just that alone can invite people to reflect back on I wonder why he’s asked us to stop. Or you could even ask a question such as right now who are you being in this moment, and then get back into the experience. So the when question of when are you processing could occur at any point between the beginning and the end of the experience.
Another reason for why you do in the middle is to manage conflict, or perhaps to manage an unsafe situation, and I mean unsafe not just in physical terms but mental and emotional terms as well. As the leader you are responsible for the wellbeing of your group. So it’s possible that the middle of the experience is an important time when to debrief with your group. And sometimes the middle depending on the situation becomes the end as well, that is you don’t continue with the experience.
As I’ve said there’s so much conversation, so much discussion and investigation of this theme, that if you look at the show notes we’ll give you lots of links to be able to learn more if you are interested. This is the third of our four episodes in the series of looking at debriefing skills. If you’ve got comments to make, please make them. Indeed share this with your friends as well.
And otherwise I look forward to the next episode, in Episode 47, when we look at the how, how do you process or debrief. Otherwise in the meantime I’ll look forward to seeing you then. Bye for now.
#facilitationskills #facilitatorskillstraining #facilitator #facilitation #playmeo
If you're like most group facilitators, you probably expect that the best time to debrief your group's experience is at the end, right? Not always...
|| https://www.playmeo.com/facilitatortips/episode46 ||
Click play and watch this week’s Facilitator Tips episode, the third of four tutorials focused on the best time to debrief your group's experience.
This is just one of many dozens of leadership tips you can use to improve the participation, relationships and overall performance of your students, staff and team.
This Facilitator Tips video tutorial is presented by Mark Collard, one of the world's most experienced & respected experiential trainers in the world. As a Master of Group Games & Activities, Mark can teach you how to help your team engage, interact & connect with one another more powerfully.
Was this video helpful? Please leave a comment...
|| Video Transcription ||
Hi there folks and welcome to the Facilitator Tips video series. My name is Mark Collard, I work as an experiential trainer and author, and today we want to focus on Episode 46, the third in our series of four episodes around one topic, processing, debriefing, or reflection.
We’ve looked at why. We also looked at the what. And today we’re going to look at when. When do you debrief?
Now just by virtue of the definition of debrief, it suggests and it typically is at the end of an experience. That just makes sense, doesn’t it, that you want to be able to invite a group to have gone through an experience and then reflect back on it. So the typical response to this question is end. But I want to broaden your horizons here, because you also want to understand when is the end, like is it ten minutes from now, next week, is it next year. There can be lots of reasons why you choose to delay the reflection. So again you want to look back at the “what” topic in terms of significance and appropriateness as to exactly when at the end of the experience would you choose to process.
It can also be at the beginning which is one reason I choose to use the word “process” or “reflection” more often than “debrief”. Debrief by definition means at the end, but to reflect at the beginning can be a really powerful tool, to imagine your group thinking about what they’re about to move into, and then imagine if they could reflect on what’s about to happen, can they actually think about how that might change their actions, their thoughts, and their behaviours. So inviting them to reflect at the beginning is a really powerful tool, often referred to as frontloading.
And then of course there’s the middle. So you’ve got it at the end, you’ve got it at the beginning, and there are sometimes reasons to process in the middle. That is you might just simply ask your group to hey stop there, everyone there, stop, and sometimes just that alone can invite people to reflect back on I wonder why he’s asked us to stop. Or you could even ask a question such as right now who are you being in this moment, and then get back into the experience. So the when question of when are you processing could occur at any point between the beginning and the end of the experience.
Another reason for why you do in the middle is to manage conflict, or perhaps to manage an unsafe situation, and I mean unsafe not just in physical terms but mental and emotional terms as well. As the leader you are responsible for the wellbeing of your group. So it’s possible that the middle of the experience is an important time when to debrief with your group. And sometimes the middle depending on the situation becomes the end as well, that is you don’t continue with the experience.
As I’ve said there’s so much conversation, so much discussion and investigation of this theme, that if you look at the show notes we’ll give you lots of links to be able to learn more if you are interested. This is the third of our four episodes in the series of looking at debriefing skills. If you’ve got comments to make, please make them. Indeed share this with your friends as well.
And otherwise I look forward to the next episode, in Episode 47, when we look at the how, how do you process or debrief. Otherwise in the meantime I’ll look forward to seeing you then. Bye for now.
#facilitationskills #facilitatorskillstraining #facilitator #facilitation #playmeo