Ep 58: Ingrid Bens on ‘Facilitating with Ease!’

SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE with Vinay Kumar

It's Facilitation Week 2021, the annual global celebration to promote the power of facilitation hosted by the IAF (International Association of Facilitators). To mark this, we have none other than the one and only Ingrid Bens, a legend in facilitation and author of the worldwide bestselling book ‘Facilitating with Ease!’, who has been an inspiration to facilitators worldwide including Vinay himself! Ingrid has also created the first and only online facilitation skills course in existence.

[3:13s] It all began with a community!

[8:30s] Facilitation in organizations

[10:19s] Genesis of her bestseller 'Facilitating with Ease'

[13:27s] Breaking down hierarchies

[24:20s] Online e-modules

[26:32s] Facilitation in schools

[35:06s] RWL: Ingrid’s recommendations for you to READ ‘The Skilled Facilitator’ by Roger M Schwarz; ‘The Art of Facilitation’ by Dale Hunter; ‘Practical Facilitation’ Christine Hogan

Our recommendation for you to READ: Ingrid’s books ‘Facilitating with Ease!’ and ‘Facilitation at a Glance!’

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