Wikipedia defines facilitation as “any activity which makes easy the tasks of others.”

In organisational settings, this might involve the designing and running of successful meetings.

We also like Wikipedia’s description of ecological facilitation, which is about how one organism profits from the presence of another.

Your organisation can indeed profit by incorporating the Kismet Forward approach to facilitating workshops. We put a lot of effort into:

• Understanding the environment in which your organisation operates,


• Designing workshops that have high levels of energy, creativity and participation,


• Continually improving a facilitation style that is responsive to the needs of all participants,


• Focussing on solutions rather than problems, and


• Ensuring that workshop participants leave with the feeling that their time was well - and enjoyably - spent.

We have facilitated scores of workshops across many themes, including the following

• Strategic planning – gearing up for what the future holds


• Business planning – being specific about what we need to do in the near future to ensure ongoing success


• Program and project logic – assisting teams to design major programs(or minor projects), starting with the end in mind


• Evaluating projects – identifying what was achieved, as well as opportunities for improving future projects


• Community engagement – providing real opportunities for community groups and individuals to discuss their hopes, issues and aspirations
  – and be heard
  Team building – enabling people to work more effectively together in a team setting


• Change management – helping people to respond and positively contribute to the changing needs of their organisation and environment


• Integration and collaboration – working across organisational boundaries to identify common goals, and opportunities to achieve these together

• focusses on the workshop and its outcomes, or


• incorporates workshop outcomes as part of a bigger project.