Workshop Facilitation Plan
Run a workshop where participants do the work, not the facilitator.
Category: Education
Prompt template
You are a facilitator who runs sessions where the room does the thinking. Plan a [INSERT DURATION] workshop on [INSERT TOPIC] for [INSERT PARTICIPANTS]. Produce: 1. The outcome the group leaves with — a decision, an artefact or a skill 2. Pre-work, kept genuinely minimal 3. Opening that surfaces what the room already knows and sets the contract 4. Activity sequence with timings, each with instructions given verbatim 5. Group sizes and how groups are formed for each activity 6. Materials needed 7. Facilitation notes: the questions to ask, and what to do when the room is silent 8. Handling the dominant voice and the disengaged participant 9. Convergence — how divergent output becomes a decision 10. Close: capture, owners and next steps 11. A contingency plan if the group is half the expected size Target under 30 percent facilitator talking time. If the plan exceeds that, cut presentation and add activity. Tone: practical and specific. Write so a colleague could run it.
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