Mini Facilitation Experience Essay

Mini Facilitation Experience Reflecting on the mini facilitation experience leads to clarity on what went well, what improvements can be made, and what techniques should be applied in the future in facilitation situations. To begin, the facilitation activity that was presented was called, Two Planets. Each team lives on their own planet and with this, they have a lot of their own resources, however, they need another resource, but this resource is only on the other team’s planet. Objective of this team building activity is to transfer all the people on one planet to the other planet and vice versa without falling into “outer space” or touching the area around the planets. Working as a team can truly make a difference in any type of setting, and this activity shows this. Continuing, the method of facilitation that my group tried to employ was level four, directly frontloading the experience. In this level, the goal of frontloading is, “highlighting, or loading, the learning before, or in …show more content…
First of all, what went well; this included the frontloading and debriefing questions that allowed for individuals to “focus on certain learning outcomes that [we] have ascertained as valuable” (193). Additionally, our role clarity with co-facilitation worked out well, where one set up and explained the activity, one did the frontloading, and one did the debriefing. Lastly, the activity was very fun and engaging, and did allow participants to work as a team. On the other hand, there were situations that did not go as well as we would’ve liked. This included our own personal knowledge of how the activity worked, there were times that I was unsure what was going on, therefore, if I would’ve understood the game better, this would’ve allowed for better representation of how the activity related to day to day