Celebrating Facilitation Diversity: IAF Romania & Japan

IAF Japan held the workshop with IAF Romania on 21 Sept. I’m not a member of IAF Japan, but as one of the FAJ staff, I attended this meeting. The co-facilitators from both Romania and Japan had prepared the unique tools, so it was an interesting and good workshop. At the beginning, the Japanese facilitator explained the results of the questionnaires, which were the same for both countries. For example, the Romanian facilitators are relatively younger than the Japanese and the proportion of women is higher than in Japan. These results made the participants curious and create the atmosphere ready to talk. There were about 40 people, so the facilitator used chat for communication, and there was music during the working time to create a relaxing time. Very good preparation! and later the Romanian facilitator introduced the games with national flags on a shared digital board. Each member had moved their own flag to put the point they thought from each question. so people could visually understand the trend. The name of the digital tool is miro. I was impressed that digital visualisation is very effective for many people to understand, I thought I need to be familiar with these digital tools when I think about current business situation. The workshop made me realise that I need more skills and I need to learn a lot. Anyway, it was a good experience.


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