Facilitating Effective Discussions: Self-Checklist
Facilitating Effective Discussions: Self-Checklist is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Determine learners’ relevant experiences, needs, strengths, and interests?
- Identify learning goals for the group (or identify learning goals with the group)?
- Plan activities for the learners to prepare them for the discussion?
- Read and reflect on the topics planned for the session?
- Attend any relevant lectures or other sessions that the learners attended prior to the discussion (if appropriate)?
- Identify and work on the understanding and skills I have for leading the session?
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Prompts to use +
Identify learning goals for the group (or identify learning goals with the group)?
Plan activities for the learners to prepare them for the discussion?
Read and reflect on the topics planned for the session?
Identify and work on the understanding and skills I have for leading the session?
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Facilitating Effective Discussions: Self-Checklist. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Identify learning goals for the group (or identify learning goals with the group)?; Plan activities for the learners to prepare them for the discussion?; Read and reflect on the topics planned for the session?; Identify and work on the understanding and skills I have for leading the session?. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from sheridan.brown.edu; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including sheridan.brown.edu.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.