Friday, November 20, 2020
Day 1 of my 3-day Facilitation training. We had 20+ participants. Zoom works suprisingly well for this, and it's organized nicely with a couple of interns and trainers. Mun Wah is excellent at this.
We began at 9 a.m. We introduced each other, then went into dyads for an exercise involving listening. I was paired up with a woman named Nayeli from Holister, CA. She is Mexican descent. We shared stories of our childhood and worked through the assigned exercise with ease. It was a pleasure meeting her. We used pages from our handbook (p. 8, 10).
At lunch, I was grouped with Lynette and Mai. Lynette is from Wisconsin and Mai from Fairfax, VA. We were asked to share an emotion we have difficulty expressing. It was a good conversation.
After lunch, we worked through another exercise involving reflection and inquiry, repeating what the speaker said and then asking for more information about the subject matter the speaker brought up. Basically, these are ways of enforcing listening and acknowledging to conversations before getting to the question, "what do you need from me?" Too often, this question is asked first without first establishing that the speaker was heard and acknowledged.
We had one final exercise before our first day ended at 3 p.m.
I spent the rest of the day relaxing, organzing, reading. I watched The Social Dilemma on NetFlix. Good.
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