Group Graces Guidelines & Facilitation Primer
A deceptively simple & helpful container to facilitate community & transformation
I’m sharing my deceptively simple facilitation and group guidelines!
Need some group guidelines for working with or coaching two or more people?1500 or more people? Try this! These are my “Group Graces”, the initial container I use for any group I work with. I modify based on the group, the needs, and the goals. After folks were asking for examples I offered this, which is the document I use for a course I taught for 13 years called, Healthy Boundaries for Kind People®. So, this example is skewed toward the needs in that course and the needs participants would have in doing this type of work. But Group Graces, or a Designed Alliance, as I originally learned in coaching and facilitating parlance, are highly customizable and grounded in organizational psychology, Deep Democracy, and psychological safety.
I’ve used them for corporate coaching at the likes of Ben and Jerry’s (yes, there is unlimited ice cream available all the time), non-profit organizations, and in helping facilitate leadership changes and challenges in for-profit realms. Consider your needs and the group’s needs to be able to create the experience needed for the desired outcome. Look at what values you want to include and let those be guiding stars as you turn those values them into verbs.
I’ve included a video to briefly explain the “whys” for each grace/guideline and the same ones may/mayn’t be ones you’d need or require. Feel free to adapt as needed!
Here’s the tutorial:
I try to cite and name where I learned what and in that spirit, invite you to mention/credit my work should you find this of use or helpful. You can even subscribe to my Substack, and that will also let me know you’d like to see more tools or learn more boundaries, coaching, facilitation, and leading transformation.
Here’s the document I breakdown. There’s a download link under the image.
Questions about the Group Graces or process? Cool! I’ll be watching for comments!
Hi Randi, its so generous of you to share!!!