Helpful facilitation resources for #Occupy groups

If you are a part of an #Occupy group and are focusing on the facilitation teams, I’d like to offer you some resources from the Art of Hosting community.

On my site are scads of Facilitation Resources for use.  All of these are offered free of charge of course.  In terms of some of the challenges that #Occupy camps are facing, consensus decision making is one of the big ones.  I am amazed at the capacity people are showing in undertaking consensus at the General Assemblies.  But there will always be frustrations with these processes.  My friend Tree Bressen offers a comprehensive set of consensus decision making resources on her pages and that is well worth a look.

In terms of deeper hosting practice  Here is a link to a document i wrote a number of years ago called “Hosting in a Hurry” it can be a useful printout to hand to Occupy Groups to help them think about process.  It was written for an indigenous North American audience which explains a few of the context specific stuff.  But the essence of it is that it conveys art of hosting practice in a simple and  succinct  way.  It can be used to compliment facilitation or as a discussion document among facilitators at #Occupy events who are learning as they go.

There is some amazing facilitation happening in the #Occupy world and people are learning on the fly. I hope these resources can be useful.