Complexifying Facilitation by Immersing in Lived Experiences of on-the-fly Facilitation

Background: Describing the role of a facilitator often results in to-do lists resembling recipe or laundry list to follow. Such fail grasp inherent complexity facilitation and are not very useful guiding facilitators when, why if they should intervene unfolding live performance that day. Aim: To develop deeper understanding on-the-fly by analyzing rich empirical accounts in-situ episodes. Intervention: Six episodes were through purposeful sampling selected from body hundreds interventions forty-seven performed crisis management training exercises Swedish municipalities. Each full-day simulation-game had between fifteen fifty participants involving politicians, administrative managers staff. Method: An auto-hermeneutical phenomenological analysis six lived experiences was conducted understand what observed how intervention applied. Results: On-the-fly-facilitation is instantaneous, but draws simultaneously on awareness past, present future. Facilitation needs foreseen during design influence current attentiveness coaching. Unfolding game-play be grasped quickly. Potential future consequences intervening evaluated within limited window opportunity. Due these circumstances, multi-skilled, arbitrary fallible. muddiness requires courage facilitator. Conclusions: In order better skills roles actually performed, literature desperately larger number interesting facilitation. Elaborate such could as available skills, situational circumstances well interaction players into intervention. This generate more complex theoretical apply addition theories master.