Why Systems Change Needs Facilitation, Not Just Coordination
"I've never seen anything like this," a participant once told me during a coffee break at a multi-stakeholder convening. "We started with such broad challenges this morning, and now we're talking about concrete collaboration opportunities. As a whole group. How did that happen?" I smiled, because I knew the answer wasn't magic, it was facilitation. Skilled, intentional, external facilitation. Over
