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Facilitation Frontiers #3: From hotspot to cool spot
Facilitator: Julia Wolfson
Session 3 focus: From hotspot to cool spot, spotting and integrating ghost roles along the way.
Anyone with the desire to get unstuck occasionally from one sided misery/righteousness to help shift a mood or situation, can learn facilitator awareness. What may seem like an isolated moment and problem, is merged in an alchemical field of energies and experiences – past present and future. To make this field more visible, so you can find your point of joy to move with, is the essence of our mystery playground in this series. Our facilitation tools come from process science (Mindell) and a unifying spiritual attitude to life (the science of following your eternal nature’s signals). These atmospheric and tangible signals are the ground of many if not all spiritual and wisdom traditions including a secular orientation to life and nature’s gods and goddesses – nothing to do with religion, rules or morality.
In session 1, we expanded the idea of a group process from a programmatic formula to an experience happening any time any place. What makes any experience a group process? Facilitator Awareness! Why and how is that useful? To be more connected to your flow power! We focused on the art of topic meditation – notice your topic, and frame it! Sounds simple, but easier said than done! 🥰
In Session 2 in our mystery playground we practiced finding the essence of the polarity that is hiding within a topic!! We devoted a whole session to practicing as a group; discussing, grappling, understanding and playing with “setting roles” – first getting to know a universal value/essence within each side of a polarity. This can help to loosen a rigid interpretation and make visible an expanded and deeper reality before getting into a heated exchange.
Skill focus: Deepening a polarity to essence, Attitude focus: find what you love and follow it
Skill focus + attitude focus = your unique facilitation love language
Welcome to Mystery PlaygroundIn every process — a meeting, conflict, conversation, event, relationship, classroom, organisation, or inner experience — there are frontiers.
Process Work facilitation offers practical prompts to navigate these living landscapes, and your innate compass.
Instead of a fixed formula, we develop precision in noticing living signposts emerging moment by moment
Together we will explore:
- personal and collective frontiers in facilitating an unfolding of a topic or signal
- how groups dream and signal
- how conflict can become information for the facilitator
- how to facilitate moment-by-moment with what is actually happening
- and getting to know your own facilitation style that is already present
Facilitation can be applied anywhere:
leadership, coaching, organisational roles, therapy, education, community work, activism, teams, relationships, creative practice, at home and any aspect of everyday life.
You do not need to become someone else to facilitate well. Exactly who you are already contains a facilitation blueprint.
Possible themes
- What Signal to Follow?
- What just happened!
- In the Thick of the Mess
- Fear of conflict
- Finding the polarity and setting roles
- Unfolding Hotspots to Cool Spots
- Not knowing what to do now
- Facilitation team tips
- Framing topics and moments
For:For facilitators, coaches, educators, leaders, therapists, organisers, Process Work students, Deep Democracy practitioners, and curious humans interested in navigating real life, relationships, groups, and teams with more awareness, creativity, precision, and connection.
Recordings available anytime